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any ouo else — I menu any woman. This 

 face I have erected represents to me 

 the supnuie essence of ftiminine loveli- 

 ness, the one woman for whom a man 

 should be glad to die, for whom I would 

 die, did she require me, this very min- 

 ute. Peojjle t<dl you I never go out any 

 where. How can I when this splendid 

 beauty smiles befoi-e me at home? I tell 

 you I never lived till I knew her, and 

 now I cannot live with her. To me she 

 is the one woman in thi.s world or the 

 next. Indeed, not the one woman, but 

 woman herself. " 



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I left Wetherby's chambers half an 

 hour later wondering if my old friend 

 was going mad. As I turned to close 

 the door behind me I saw him suddenly 

 bend down over the table and sweeping 

 the photographs together into his arms 

 cover them with a rain of passionate 

 kisses. — Exchange. 



Kindly John Oxenford's Cough. 



Clement Scott recalls a pathetic story 

 of the declining days of John Oxeuford, 

 for years the leading theatrical critic of 

 London. Mr. Oxeuford was troubled 

 with a serious bronchial affection, wliich 

 occa'iionally disturbed the audience, for 

 he refused to give up his beloved thea- 

 ter, although desperately ill. A certain 

 rising young actor, who shall be name- 

 less, though he has recently been in 

 Engliuid after a brilliant career, was 

 very anxious to obtain Oxejifoi-d's vajiv 

 able opinion on kis \\X)rk, and the tender 

 hearted old gentlejuan literally left his 

 bed and came down to tlie theater on a 

 bitter cold night to do a good action to 

 a clever youngster, in the middle of one 

 of the actxjr's finest «ce?j(is on came the 

 ccugh from the Oxi'iilcrd box. It con- 

 tiiiTifc4 SIT lojig thut it niinerved the ac- 

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less, said to the distressed actor: "Do 

 you know what you have done? Do you 

 know who it vvas that you turned out of 

 the box?" "I neither know nor care, " 

 was the reply "Why, it w;i.s .John Ox- 

 euford!" The actor was paralyzed, but 

 he got his good notice all the same. The 

 veteran critic went home coughing to 

 praise the young actor who had turned 

 him out. 



Shelley and Fire and Placae. 



Unlike most poets, and in this re.sem- 

 bling his coutempcrary Turner in 

 painting, Shelley began with no special 

 love of color, but developed it v/ith his 

 general development. The chief char- 

 acter of Shelley's color is that it is al- 

 ways mingled with light and move- 

 ment. His is "a green and glowir.g 

 light like that which drops from folded 

 lilies in which glovvworms dwell." It 

 is translucent color, proceeding from, 

 some "inmost purple spirit of light," 

 and he seems to be always looking 

 through a rainbow hued cascade. A 

 curious feature in his use of color is the 

 evidently unconscious repetition of the 

 same word v- :thin a few lines. The col- 

 or seems to fl;;sh before him and di.^ap- 

 pear. His colors are fluid, opaline, ir- 

 idescent In this, again, as iu tiie 

 "Witch of Altas, " strongly resembling 

 Turner's later use of color, they roiike 

 "a tapestry of fleecelike mist," or 

 "v\'Oven exlialution underlaid with lam- 

 bent lightiung fire. " 



No potit has ever used fire so exten- 

 sively. "Men scarcely know how beau- 

 tiful fir« is," he says. "Each flame of 

 it is as a precious stone dissolved in 

 ever moving light." He finds the sem- 

 blance of fiamo in the tuilikelicst i)laces, 

 even in wat<'r, for the dew iii a flower 

 is like f-re., even in the st.-lid marble, " 

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