here are practically none, but the view
gives a stimulus to their inventive activity: they plan out how they
would furnish the rooms and fill the empty hearths with dreams.

Is not the same thing the explanation of shop-gazing? The woman who
has bought her winter coat and hat does not as a rule refrain from
looking any more into shop windows till the spring; instead, she
clothes herself in imagination in all the beautiful stuffs she sees
displayed, and if some of the things demand ballroom, racecourse, golf
links or perhaps the Alps for the background, why, so much the better,
the suggestion puts, as it were, a view from the windows of her castle
in the air.

A garden--a dozen square yards or reckoned in acres--is full of
material for our imagination; indeed, a seedsman's catalogue or a copy
of "Amateur Gardening" will often be enough to start us; long lines of
greenhouses will build themselves for us, or rockeries, or wild glens
with streams in them, and the world will blossom round about us.

Sometimes it is ambition that calls us, personal or professional; we
get beforehand the sweet taste of power upon the tongue. It may
perhaps be sometimes the rewards of work, riches and honour and so on,
but more often, I think, the dreams of youth circle round the work
itself. We will be of use in the world, we will find new paths and
make them safe for those coming after us to walk in, we will get rid
of that evil and set up a ladder towards that good; we will heal,
teach, feed, amuse, uplift or cherish the other human beings round
about us. We will store only for the sake of distributing; we will
climb only to be better able to give a helping hand.

Well, there are some danger signals at cross-roads of our dream-way,
some precautions to be observed if we would not let romance obscure
and hinder us in our search after reality. But none of these "castles"
are bad in themselves. In so far as they quicken our attention power,
deepen our thoughtfulness, make our activities more elastic and keep
us from carelessness or sloth, they are surely all to the good as
episodes in our development.

E.M. COBHAM.

THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF VEGETALISM.

This article, the earlier part of which appeared in the October
number, is from the French of Prof. H. Labbe, the head of the
_laboratoire a la Faculte de Medecine_, in Paris. It reflects a
characteristic aloofness to a any considerations other than scientific
or economic. But it wi