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ward tread, his head bent slightly, its blow down the iniquity, but he had also 

 massive broadness striking all who took to pay the cost of the gunpowder and 

 a second look, his bag swinging gently bear the scars of his own victory. To 

 by his side, his form and motions full talk to hmi of "consequences" was to 

 of a quiet, natural dignity, and his attack his belief in God. His faith was 

 every movement indicating forward such that it entered into every phase an 1 

 force and wonderful energy. His life crevice of his aciivities, and permeated 

 was even as his walk — direct to the every fibre of his being. " li you pub- 

 goal, and he moved through his years lish that you will sacrifice fifty thou- 

 like " a grand machine." Pride was sand readers of the Review !" " So much 

 absent from his every act, but behind the worse for the fifty thousand 

 his unpretentious externals was that readers," would be his steady, calm and 

 consciousness of intellect which ren- unaffected response. " Do the public 

 dered an unsurpassed and unquestioned edit me, or do I edit for the public?" 

 leader of men. Acts which have been represented his attitude, 

 imputed to his pride are directly trace- 

 able to the childlike simplicity of his LOOKING FOR GUIDANCE, 

 whole nature. The leviathan among One thing only could perturb him, 

 political, economical, theological, or and perturb him to an incredible 

 social questions was as a gudgeon depth. It was the absence of any 

 among the goldfish in the fine-drawn " sign-post " in a time of stress or 

 niceties of social intercourse. Yet, as even in a small emergency. Then 

 a host, he was unsurpassed, and the he waited, and the change was 

 manner in which he somehow seemed to marked. He was even as the unhorsed, 

 give his special individual attention to swordless knight, but so soon as the 

 a salon crowded with guests was a course was clear and the sign de- 

 point which always baffled me to under- ciphered, though the path might lead 

 stand. Like the god in the old Persian through gaol or mob or palace or wild, 

 legends, he seemed to be in several tempestuous ocean, he went his way as 

 places at once, with a contagious affa- placid and unruffled as the veriest maid 

 bilit}- which endeared him to all. to her village school. I have seen him 



seeking his lacking sign-post like an 



A SOCIETY SHOCKER. Alpine guide 'midst the treacherous 



I once said to him, " Either society snows. I have seen him burst into my 



keeps straigl t on, and you zig-zag, or office upon me, his visage bright with 



you keep straight on and society zig- that intense happiness which it alone 



zags." I have no hesitation in accusing could portray, his whole being vibrating 



society of the unrectilinear course. His with the expression of pent-up, vigorous 



was the seeing intellect of a child wield- energy, his strangely, sadly-laughing 



ing the force of a Vulcan. He shocked soft blue eyes large with untold joy, 



and startled society as it shocked and and on his lips the news of "what had 



startled him, as it shocks and startles happened," and of the sign he had 



us poor pygmies who are content to sit therefrom interpreted. Every step I 



tight and acquiesce solely because we made in his employ succeeded its defi- 



value comfort, conventionality and con- nite and appropriate sign-post, and my 



venience. Not all great, but all success- very entry there was delayed for more 



fid, teachers have used the same direct than a year pending the same indispen- 



methods. Shaw shocks none the less sable preliminary. Let no man laugh, 



fundamentally, but in a different way, for we who were around him have been 



and with different objects. But the far too often staggered by the unex- 



questions attacked by Mr. Stead were pected vindication of his deductions to 



seldom, if ever, aostract and academic; find "coincidence" a fitting word, and 



they were practical, present, urgent and his greatest achievements were accom- 



vital, and, the glory be given unto him, plished with no further capital than his 



he seldom failed in his object. He was own implicit belief in their needfulness, 



ever the one to suffer. Not only did he I refer to his successful, or rather to his 



