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REVIE \Y OF REV //AYS. 



October 1, 1913. 



domain The views are wonderful, and 

 ill turn out to be the wisest thing 

 you ever did in your life." He paused 

 for ;i moment, and the guests expected 

 -Mine comment on the uplifting effect 

 of communion with Nature ; bul Words 

 worth, with a fine gesture, continued, 

 ' Your property will certainly be trebled 

 in value within the next ten years!" 



Several amusing anecdotes are given 

 in Hearsts Magaztt 



Hoke Sunt!], Senator from Georgia, 

 was describing to .1 number of friends 

 the natural wit of the Southern darky. 



My man Sam. said tlie governor, had 

 an altercation with .Mo.sc a notorious char- 

 acter, and a "gun boter." The argument 

 was short-lived, and ended in Mose unlim- 

 bering his artillery. I overhauled Sam ten 

 miles dow n th< road, spent and unnerved, 

 and asked him n he had heard the firing. 



" Yessuh, Marse Soke, T sho' hear'n dem 

 bull«-tN I hear'n um twice." 



"Twice?" I asked, puzzled. 

 ' Fessuh, two times," said Sam. "I 

 hear'n um when dey pas" me, a»d I hear'n 

 um agin' when I pas' dem!" 



Rev. Xewell Dwight Hillis, pastor of 

 the famous Plymouth Church in Brook- 

 lyn, is an excellent story-teller. 



A young curate of a large and fashionable 

 church, relates Dr. Hillis, was trying to 



teach the signficance of the colour white to 

 his Sunday school class one morning. After 

 vainly endeavouring to explain so that the 

 young children seemed to grasp his mean- 

 ing, he said : 



VYI v does a bride invariably desire to 

 be clothed in white at her marriage?" 



No < replied, and, after waiting a 



moment, he explained : 



• While stands for joy, and the wedding 

 day is the most joyous occasion of a woman's 

 life." 



A Little hoy. whose sister had been married 

 during the week, and who had been most 

 interested in all the details of the fashion- 

 able wedding, raised a hand. 



"Well, Gardner." said the curate, "what 

 do you wish to ask?" 



" Why is it," queried the boy, seriously, 

 "that the men wear all black?" 



Maurice Maeterlinck, who holds that 

 music is "a particularly disagreeable 

 kind of noise," was at one time be- 

 guiled to a musicale given by a promi- 

 nent Paris society woman who, during 

 the evening, found the author sitting 

 disconsolate and bored in a corner of 

 the room. 



" Now, really, Monsieur," said the hostess, 

 " don't you think this orchestra plays beau- 

 tifully? These men have been playing to- 

 gether for eleven years." 



"Eleven years!" repeated Maeterlinck. 

 ' Haven't we been here longer than that?" 



SOME MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS. 



NASH'S MAGAZINE. 



Lord Charles Beresford commences, 

 in the September issue, his life-story 111 

 an article which is remarkable for its 

 lavish illustrations. 



"Surgical Hysteria" is the title of a 

 very outspoken article by Ella Wheeler 

 Wilcox, which challenges the present 

 craze for curing by surgical operation 

 rather than by the healing arts of the 

 physician. Mrs. Wilcox believes that a 

 hundred operations are made where one 

 only is absolutely needed, and q notes 

 many instances which have come under 

 her obsi 1 >n. 



The work of Miss Margaret Morris's 

 school for dancing is described by W. 

 i Liddell. The animating idea is to 

 make them a beautiful reality to chil- 

 dren by teaching them to care for it, and 

 they can then express it in their bodies, 

 gestures; and whole life I lie growing 

 interest in dancing as an educative aid 

 is clearly expressed. 



THE FORUM. 



Frank Chester Pease undertakes to 

 explain the particular mission of the 

 Industrial Workers of the World, an 

 organisation which it attempting the 

 task of guiding the proletariat to the 

 throne of industrial power. It is simple 

 m theory, this economic revolution, as it 

 is apparently unanswerable in argu- 

 ment ; but the extermination of the Red 

 Indian was child's play compared to the 

 elimination of the capitalist from 

 America — not to mention those degene- 

 rate provinces labelled Europe, Africa, 

 Asia and Australia. 



In discussing " Literature and Demo- 

 cracy," Mowry Saben reveals an insight 

 and expresses an enthusiasm which is 

 sadly lacking in the majority of writers 

 who burden the reviews with their 

 The writer does not deceive 

 himself, for he recognises to the full the 

 excrescent humours of the beast, Demo- 

 cracy, and is prone to agree with 



