Or aspire to Miss DELL'S
Impassioned and fervid variety,
You still may attain
To CHARLES GARVICE'S strain
And leaven Romance with propriety.

For democracy shies
At the artist who tries
To express himself subtly or darkly;
And the man in the street
In a fair plébiscite
Would probably crown Mrs. BARCLAY.

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Extract from a sermon:--

"We meet here to-day under circumstances which are not
ordinary ... We seem to hear 'the sound of a gong in
the tops of the mulberry trees.'"--_The Record_.

This must be some air-raid warning by the rural police.

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"On the roads near by 'a Verdun' signposts have been
replaced by new ones reading 'A Glorieux Verdun.' The
name of France herself might well be altered to
'Glorieux France.'"--_Canadian Paper_.