ater._

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_The Book of the Day._

BRANDENBURG BABIES

By Guinevere Jaggers.

"Of all the hundreds of English governesses privileged to enter
the _penetralia_ of Potsdam, Miss Jaggers had the longest
innings and writes with most authority. Her record teems with
astounding happenings, appalling revelations and grotesque
episodes.... There is nothing to touch it in the annals of
candour. Pepys is not in the same street and Benvenuto Cellini
not in the same parish. We recommend it to the perusal of the
Premier--if he has the courage to tackle it."

_The Oil and Vinegar Witness._

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Before the Hyde Election--

"Mr. Davies maintains his optimism. He has reprinted one of his
cartoons showing him chattering the party walls of 'Jacobson's
Jellicoe,' with the big gun of efficiency."

_Manchester Evening Chronicle._

But this attempt to drag the Navy into politics met with deserved
failure.

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"Dwellers in the trenches are not the only fighters who know
what it is to be up to the knees in seven feet of water."

_Liverpool Daily Post._

We believe the Anakim were greatly troubled in this way.

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"MATLOCK'S VETERAN SOLDIER HONOURED.

154 Years in the Army."

_High Peak News._

A veteran indeed.

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NURSERY RHYMES OF LONDON TOWN

IV.--Petticoat Lane.

Up the Lane and down the Lane and all round about
The Petticoats on washing-day are all hanging out;
Some are made of linsey-woolsey, some are made of silk,
Some of them are green as grass and some are white as milk;
Frilled and flounced and quilted ones in Petticoat Lane,
Some are worked in coloured nosegays, some of them are plain,
Some are striped with red and blue as gaudy as can be,
And one is sprigged with lavender, and that's the one for me.

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"Sir A. MOND said that the married men's grievance was that they
might be called up before the tooth-combing process of which the
right hon. gentleman had spoken had been carried out."--_The
Times._

It sounds painful. Personally we intend to stick to the old-fashioned
brush.

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"Mr. Lloyd George, replying to Mr. Cowan, said the total salary