mber of people in the English
community who have never before seen an aeroplane coming up to the
aerodrome and gazing in wonder at the old buses.'"--_Evening Standard._

Even in England this spectacle is still the object of remark.

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"We really feel inclined to parody Kipling and say--

'One hand stuck in your dress shirt from to show heart is cline,
The other held behind your back, to signal, tax again.'"

_Singapore Free Press._

We can only hope our esteemed contemporary will not feel this way again.

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[Illustration: THE ROAD TO RUIN.

LABOUR. "WHAT'S YOUR GAME?"

MR. SMILLIE. "I'M OUT FOR NATIONALISATION."

LABOUR. "AH! AND YOU'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY NATIONALISING STARVATION?"]

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[Illustration: _Mrs. Smithson-Jones_ (_to her husband, who WILL garden in
his pyjamas before breakfast_). "_DO_ COME IN, ADOLPHUS; YOU'RE DELAYING
THE HARVEST."]

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THE ART OF POETRY.

IV.

Good morning, gentlemen. Before I pass to the subject of my lecture today I
must deal briefly with a personal matter of some delicacy. Since I began
this series of lectures on the Art of Poetry I notice that the new
Professor of Poetry at Oxford, Mr. W.P. KER, in what I think is
questionable taste, has delivered an inaugural lecture on the _same_
subject under the _same_ title. On the question of good taste I do not wish
to say much, except that I should have thought that any colleague of mine,
even an entirely new Professor in a provincial university, would have
recognised the propriety of at least communicating to me his intention
before committing this monstrous plagiarism.

However, as I say, on that aspect of the matter I do not propose to dwell,
though it does seem to me that decency imposes certain limits to that kind
of academic piracy, and that those limits the Professor has overstepped. In
these fermenting days of licence and indiscipline persons in responsible
positions at our seats of learning have a great burden of example to bear
before the world, and if it were to go forth that actions of this type may
be taken with impunity by highly-paid Professors then indeed we are not far
from Bimetallism and the breaking-up of laws.

Now let us glance for a moment at the substance of the lecture. I should
have been glad if Professor KER had had the court