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The Review of Reviews. 



Daily Herald.] 



[The Policy of the Foreign Office is, of course, kept a 

 dreadful secret from the Labourer. His unimportant 

 function Is to pay the cost in blood and burdens in case 



of War.] 



The Sphinx : " Why cudgel your poor brain with my secret ? 

 Be patient, and one day, doubtless, upon your own hearth- 

 stone you will find the solution — in bombs and bloody 

 suffering." 



LepracaunA 



The only way — the Guillotine. 



" It's a far, far better thing that they're doing now than 



they've ever done." 

 Executioner Asquith (facetiously). "Don't be nervous; 

 just put your head in here, and we'll do the rest. 'Twill be all 

 over in a second. Isn't it a grand thing to follow your peers ? " 

 Assistant John. " I wish Henry would put on a little more 

 speed ; we've several cartloads yet." 



[During the Land Purchase debate the Opposition obstruction 

 and time-delaying methods «f bringing forward innumerable 

 amendments to every motion failed, owing to the steady appli- 

 cation of the guillotine, sheaves of amendments disappearing 

 at each|sweep.] 



Daily 11 cm Id.] 



" Sighing for New Worlds," &c. 



Winston Churchill, the Young Alexander, 



who is attached to his Sense of Duty by 



Chains of Iron. 



The Jauntiness of John. 



The New David. 



[The Florence Nightingale — or was it 



Sarah Gamp ? — of Liberalism.] 



The New David, whose methods have this 



advantage over those of the original David, 



that they entail no suffering on Goliaths. 



