Remember in conclusion
Only the man of prose prefers
Eyewitness to illusion.

* * * * *

FROM THE BACK OF THE FRONT.

Extract from a soldier's letter:--

"DEAR MOTHER,--I am thoroughly run down, and have grown so thin that
when I get a pain in my middle I cannot tell whether it is a backache
or a stomachache."

* * * * *

"The choristers and I.C.U. enlivened each station along the route by
rending sacred songs and solos as The Kano Express drew in."--_Lagos
Weekly Record._

"That's torn it," said the conductor.

* * * * *

"Britons never shall be slaves if they will only remember the solemn
warning of the author of the words--'To thine own self be true, and
then thou canst be false to any man.'"--_Letter in Scotch Paper._

One recognises the note of liberty, but we fear the writer must have got
hold of a German edition of "Unser Shakspeare."