THOUGHTS FROM WRITINGS 



THE photographer fixes the head 

 of the sitter by a sort of stand 

 at the back, which holds it 

 steady in one position while the camera 

 takes the picture. In life most people 

 have their heads fixed in the claws of 

 some miserable pettiness, which in- 

 terests them so greatly that they tramp 

 on steadily forward, staring ahead, and 

 there's not the slightest fear of their 

 seeing anything outside the rut they are 

 travelling. — ' Amaryllis at the Fair.' 



IT is the modern fashion to laugh at 

 the East, and despise the Turks 

 and all their ways, making Grand 

 Viziers of barbers, and setting waiters in 

 high places, with the utmost contempt 

 for anything reasonable,— all so incon- 

 gruous and chance-ruled. In truth, all 

 things in our very midst go on in the 

 Turkish manner; crooked men are set 

 in straight places, and straight people 



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