panoply of divine and immortal genius.

* * * * *

"A bricklayer's labourer was remanded yesterday on a charge of
stealing, as bailee, two matches, value £3, the property of the
Vicar of ----."--_Provincial Paper_.

We fear there has been bad profiteering somewhere; even in London they
have not touched that price.

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"Howells' new violin conato (E flat), which followed, is sincere
music ... whatever there is it is possible to bear."--_Times_.

The fololwing of a conata, like the bombination of a chimæra,
apparently puts some strain upon the attention of an audience.

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_LE FRANÇAIS TEL QUE L'ON LE PARLE._

It was on my journey to Paris that I ran across little Prior in the
train. He too was going, he said, on Peace Conference work. His is
a communicative disposition and before we had fairly started on our
journey he had unfolded his plans. He said the Conference was bound
to last a long time, and as a resident in a foreign country he had
a splendid opportunity to learn the language. He meant, he said,
to get to know it thoroughly later on. He then produced his French