thisers of whatever
nationality. Other clubs please copy.

***

From the Eastern Counties comes news that in last week's Zeppelin raid
twenty turnips were "completely destroyed." And so the grim work of
starving England into submission goes relentlessly on.

***

"That boy there," said the LORD MAYOR at the Mansion House, in
addressing some children from an orphanage, "can easily become a Lord
Mayor." Cases of this sort are really not hard to diagnose when you are
familiar with the symptoms, and the LORD MAYOR had, of course, noticed
the hearty manner in which the lad was attacking his food.

***

The latest Shakspearean discovery announced by Sir SIDNEY LEE is that
the Bard was a successful man of business; but the really nice people
who have lately taken him up have resolved not to let the fact prejudice
them against him after all these years.

***

"Absence of the Polecat from Ireland" is the title of a vigorous article
in the current number of _The Field_. While agreeing in substance with
the writer, we cannot refrain from commenting on this unexpected
departure of a peculiarly moderate organ from its customary restraint in
dealing with the political questions of the day.

***

The Editor of _The Angler's News_ makes public the request that
fishermen will provide him with the particulars of any exceptionally big
fish which they may catch. Strangely enough he does not suggest that the
data should be accompanied, for purposes of verification, by the fish
themselves. It is refreshing to know that there is a man left here and
there who is not trying to make something out of the War.

***

One of the Zeppelins that recently visited England dropped one hundred
bombs without causing a single casualty, and a movement is on foot to
present the Commander with a pair of white gloves.

***

"What I wish to show Mr. Norman," says Mr. G. K. CHESTERTON in _The New
Witness_, "is that the fantastic pursuit of the _idee fixe_ ... leads to
a _reductio ad absurdum_." One has often had occasion to notice the
rapidity with which a young _idee fixe_ will dart down a convenient
_reductio ad absurdum_ when closely pursued.

***

A writer in the current number of _The Fortnightly Review_ has
elaborated the theory that the War can be won without difficulty by
breaking through the German line in the West. It is the ability to grasp
these simple but fundamental truth