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do with the pleasure of this sort of hunting. What lends zest to the sport is to stand on the heights in a clear autumn day and to see the birds driven from side to side of the broad opening in the hills, through many de- files of which escape would be easy, to see them gradually drawing toward the fatal spot near which you are standing, and to know at any moment some unexpected acci- dent may rob you of your quarry. It is not a form of the chase that an Englishman would be likely to delight in even in the absence of other sports, but when first viewed it is an attractive sight, and the strangers who have left their homes with a sincere wish t at the pigeons might escape are apt to feel their veins jingle with excitement that is not altogether rtriumphantwhen theyseem likely to do so, though they would perhaps give good deal to set the game free again when it is once fsirly netted; there is something pite- ous ill killing the poor birds off in the cold blooded way which the means by which they have been captured imposes, and the sports men generally leave this part of the work to their underlings.
 Positive Cures for Certain Nanfas.
 Lord Bramwell in the Nineteenth Century.1
 A great number of madnesses have been invented in modern times-homicidal mania, suicidal mania, kleptomania, dipsomania, and, for aught I know, others. These are
  cept having strong passion for drink and so on. am not sure man may not have two of them. I suppose that would be bi- mania. In Todd's Johnsons dictionary, edi- ton of 1827"mania" has the meaning "mad- ness," and quotation is "the most violent and acute species of delirium, acting from perturbation of the reason and judgment" "Monomania" is not found in that dicti0na- ". Now certainly none of the monomanias I have mentioned answer this description. Kleptomania is consistent with the greatest calmness and cunning. So are the others. When the homicidal maniac indeed proceeds to action doubtless he is violent; but he can take his steps with no appearance of deliri- um or want of calnaness. It has always seemed to me that to call these propensities manias, and those afflicted with them mani s-al, is a mistake. Such persons are not wrong in their minds, but in their passions, appetites or propensities. The man with homicidal propensities has strong desire to kill, wholly irrational; that is to say, ordi- nary person cannot understand the want, either as pleasure to be had or pain to be got rid of. To mankind in general such a propensity is unnatural; but perfectly sane man may be cursed with an unnatural pro pensity. The thing is plainer when we come to dipsomania and kleptomania. The for ner is excessive desire for drink, not, imagine. for the pleasure to be got from it as from the want of the craving for it; pain to be got rid of. Men unhappily have been afflicted with this whose mental capacity was of the highest quality. Kleptomania is 8 strong desire to steal I say strong because dare say many people would steal but for the possible consequences, who, having gard for them, do not. The kleptomaniac is not restrained by them, the desire with him being too strong. A learned counsel was ad- dressing jury for his client charged with stealing and said she was kleptomaniac ''Of course your lordship knows what that is." "Oh, yes" said the judge, MT. Justice Byles, s'and I am sent down here to cure it."