Oct. 9, 1885.] 



KNOVV^LEDGE 



fully taken its place as a practical and a useful art. If one learns 

 to breathe properly even long-continued speech is made easy. 

 Proper breathing may cure loss of voice, clergyman's sore throat, and 

 many forms of stammering. 



" Kolokol'' has only to rrfcr i., ^h . V. T.. im'.'. ];•, \ -i ,. n.'- 

 road, West Kensington, to ;ji i !;i. i'l.,', I :.\ ,]■ M :' ! ;!S 

 taught me breathing, an'l I i : ■ ■ ■ ■■, 



too, his book OU " Voice, S>i:)_, ,.: ;-. ,. ..;, ... !. ..:,'ix 



Browne. As Mr. Behnke knnv.~ i,..iL:,:,' . i liii^ 1<.||. i, I .■ ,i:i,. ^ -:iv 

 whether he or anyone else woulil speculate in tlie manner proposcii. 

 I should think such a course would no more assure a cure than it 

 would if taken by a fever patient with his physician. There is a 



lini 



" Kolokol" p'^ii 

 parents shouM 



lie will notice i wonderful chingi i 

 mering imU disappear while Icarnui 

 viz., inexperienced peisons should i 

 diaphragmatic breathing to excess 



the din 



b, added- 

 ,D STL DEM 



THE BIRTH OF WORLDS 



[1952]— If the formation and the decay of planetary systems be by 

 the processes of progression and of retrogression, of e\ olution and of 

 devolution, then one important consideration has been neglected 

 by those who have speculated on the nebula, and on the sudden 

 appearance of stars, and that is that light as light, has no external 

 existence •nhatever Light is not of the stais, but is the effect of 

 mechanical vibrations, propagated by their action, impinging on 

 the sentient e}0 It is therefore piobable that there m n, be centio 

 of systems, now m process of development, th it have not vet the 

 power of communicating to the ciKum mil u nt (.IIni sufhcicut 

 vibratory activity to produce tht cii f 1 I i lunnncvts 



and not until the) shall possess tli i ti.nct 1il 



revealed unto men This consul i < i uiit f. i a 



dawning advent to i fuller da\ m 1 1 it hunnn 



eyes; may it not ilso help to sjU i i i tli stai in 



Andromeda 1 \\ ( w L Thomas 



[These stais, how ev er, alw ays " go m again How about that 1 — 

 E. r.] 



3IEECUR\ B'i DAY K\D THE RED GLOW 



[1953]— On the jth of this month the planet Mercuiy at transit 

 by day became visible with mv instiument for the first time for 

 more than two yexrs, and has been daily visible since The copper 

 halo round tlie sun, which has existed for the same peuod and 

 which has during the last six weeks diminished so as to be hardly 

 observable, became considerably bnghtei again during a week of 

 absolutelv cloudless weather from the 13th inst The foie glow 

 and afterglow have returned with increased splendour (iccom 

 panied almost each day by the pink arch in the opposite horizon) 

 beginning on the 2nd to the 5th, and again from the luth to th 

 23rd, that of the J2nd being finer than anv vet si en Irr < u 

 tinuing for one and a halt houis aftei sunset the .low cxtLnilin 

 along the northein horizon for some distante Both tlie foie t,li>u 

 and after glow of the 22nd, as also the aftei glow of the 2nd, oth, 

 and 23rd, were accompanied bj bnght ravs of red running up half 

 way to the zenith 



I may add that the new star in Andromeda has been distinctl) 

 visible to the naked eye here, until the increasing moonlight 

 prevented its being seen M F W. 



Partenkirehcn, 1 iv xria. Sept 2s 



IllTFRS RrrFIVED AJnD SHORT ANSWERS 



" abutere " for " abuti '' ; 

 tainly not mine, nor the 

 far as I am concerned y 

 translation in a not verj 



t I a 



cunipo- 



is followed by an ablative, I am sure I have no objection. 

 Those are not the ,only mistakes you have made. But now if you 

 supposed me really sensitive, you should have suggested the alter- 

 native that I must have written my replies very badly, and so 

 perhaps sent the " reader '' to look up— more or less hurriedly and 

 so imperfectly— the original passage, or to recall it imperfectly from 

 memory, or perhaps to correct it from his inner conscioiLsness. You 

 would have been nearer the truth that way. Yet, sensitive though 

 I seem to be, according to your judgment, I could liave borne even 

 that terrible sarcasm, knowing that I wTOte in pencil in a joggling 

 tram Albeit I can write prettv badlv when the spirit moves me, 

 w ithout being joggled at all W ill this do ' \ et I w ould wager a 

 brass farthing, if I had one, you will ta/c the last word which von 

 ask for so piteously — There aie so manj things I do not know 

 that I see no "gibe in telling vou that vou are quite mistaken 

 about meteors not moving under attraction Let them move as fast 

 as they mav their paths must be curved As to the Saturday 

 Heiieti, the opinion I expressed here is universal among weU 

 informed persons One may say of the class of wrriters they 

 employ something akin to w hat was once said of a paradoxist, — 

 He IS only a chemist among astronomers, only an astronomer 

 among chemists and both only among those who are neither 

 — Facibbat No, the second patientiam was not a prnters 

 error the first was I_ the second case I was quoting 

 the error The other mistake was A Putv too Then 



t the I 



And s 



ning of 



I shall sc n>pr t t lli 

 — small blame to tliem 

 rhat if I mav be permit I 



pioof of the article in qii 

 — F ( 1 Do not kn.n 

 from the little I have li 

 a trustworthj book 

 fairly trustworthj His 

 unsound Of course in 

 I H V I am sorry th 

 seemed to express no opiii 



his case I e . 



id h IV e been writing replies 



\ eov il — besides sending off 



c V 1 1 1 nre I lef t W aterloo , 



I ml 1 cinnot make out 



I be^t thcv may; 



1 tlie special form of 



\ nothin^' about the 



11 t hiving seen any 



1 KNOV^ LEDGE Itself 



_ion of Geology," 

 M \v it was scarcely 



t n ivcn IS 



1 1 st without .uiim il food, any 

 ill work if low fed The indi- 

 lusc of the stored up energy 



heijiniuH J 



approaching en 1 i C vm i klj Know li i>i l w i inn ini ci d th in then 

 was room for, it all other letters had been excluded You know 

 little about " the gift of editing ' if you suppose it includes putting ' 



