"Her thoughts came back to the dancing little figure in
purple-striped pyjamas. She had a scared sense of irrevocable
breaches."

_The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman._

An obvious misprint in the last word.

* * * * *

The Quickest Route.

"THE KING'S JOURNEY.

CROSSES CHANNEL IN TORPEDO." Cumberland Evening Mail.

This is the method which the KAISER means to try for his coming invasion
of England.

* * * * *

"Professor G. Sims Woodhead, the Board's consultative
bacteriological adviser, to whom the report had been submitted,
said: 'I consider Dr. Mair's work contains a germ of great
promise.'"

_Birmingham Daily Mail._

We hope the Professor will not lose sight of the promising young
microbe.

* * * * *

"For any enemy ship to try to get into Dover at the present time
would be like entering the mouth of hell.

[We understand that the Admiralty have received no condemnation of
this.]"

_Daily Telegraph._

We hope that none of our contemporaries will blame the Admiralty for its
lack of information.

* * * * *

"Rev. Owen S. Watkins, one of the Wesleyan Methodist Chaplains with
the Expeditionary Force (already mentioned in the dispatches), tells
some most extraordinary stories of his experiences at the Front."

_Public Opinion._

We remember now some mention of this "Expeditionary Force" being made in
despatches, and we wondered at the time why the Censor allowed such a
public reference to it.

* * * * *

The Russians quietly evacuated Lodz without the loss of a single man.
The Germans allege that they captured it after strenuous fighting.

"And how can man lie better
Than facing fearful Lodz?"

* * * * *

BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING.

[Lines for _King Albert's Book_, published to-day for the benefit of
_The Daily Telegraph's_ Belgian Relief Fund.]

You that have faith to look with fearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife,
And trust that out of night and death shall rise
The dawn of ampler life;

Rejoice, whatever anguish rend your heart,
That God has given you, for a priceless dower,
To live in these great times and have your part
In Freedom's crowning hour.