k wherein
Self-worship hides its monstrous sin:--
Music and verse, divinely wed--
How can these live where love is dead?
* * * * *
Oh depths beneath sweet human ken,
God help the dreams, the dreams of men!

* * * * *

"The Blessington Papers are included with all their atmosphere
of distinguished High Bohemia. Among them are some interesting
Disraeli letters--he was ever her staunch friend from the early
'thirties to the late 'forties, when his son had risen and
her's--how brilliant!--had set."--_Saturday Review_.

And up to the present we had been under the impression that both these
distinguished persons were childless.

* * * * *

HINT FOR HORTICULTURISTS.

"Mr. ----, undertaker, of Temuka, improved his plant by the
purchase of a new hearse."--_Timaru Herald (New Zealand)_.

* * * * *

"Mr. ---- hopes shortly to be seen again in revue in the Wet
End."--_Pall Mall Gazette_.

Or, as the CENSOR would put it, "somewhere in England."

* * * * *

_Daily Mail_ (Ordinary Edition), 3 September, 1917: "Lord
Halsbury is 92 to-day."

_Times_ (Late War Edition), 3 September, 1917: "The Earl of
Halsbury is 94 to-day."

Yet, from personal observation, one would never believe that the EX-LORD
CHANCELLOR was ageing so rapidly.

* * * * *

From "German Official":--

"With the use of numerous tanks and aeroplanes, flying at a low
altitude, the English infantry soon after advanced to the attack
on this front."--_Evening Paper_.

Now that the enemy has given away the secret of our new weapon the
CENSOR might let us know more of our flying Tanks.

* * * * *

"Prisoner then seized her round the throat with both hands and
hit her on the head with a steel case-opener."--_Daily Paper_.

Which, presumably, he carried in his teeth.

* * * * *

THE SUNFLOWER.

"Have you," said Francesca, "seen our sunflowers lately?"

"Yes," I said, "I've kept an eye on them occasionally. It's a bit
difficult, by the way, not to see them, isn't it?"

"Well," she said, "perhaps they are rather striking."

"Striking!" I said. "I never heard a more inadequate word. I call them
simply overwhelming--the s