The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-16

Especially may we receive the pun whom IL
has the goodness to come down to date. Surely
there is no reason why we should not extend
to the following the glad hand:
Bicycles, Tricyles! Nay. to shun laughter,
Try cycles nrst. and buy cycles after:
For surely the buyer deserves but the worst
who would buy cycles. failing to try cycles n,t.
Here Is another bit OF wisdom. neatly in.
volved In word play:
A Boot and shoe and slipper
Lived once in tho cobblers row;
But the Boot aud the Shoe
Would have nothing to do
with the slipper because she was low.
But the king and the queen and their daughter
On the Cobbicr CHANGED TO call:
And as neither the Boot nor the Shoe would suit.
The Slipper went OF TO the ball
We will quote another about shoes-a poem
OF highly practical teaching. Close Quarters"
II is called:
Little toe, big toe. three toes between,
All in pointed shoe!
Never was narrower forecastlo seen.
Nor 80 little room for the crew.
That is a brief poem. and yet II manages to
Introduce a striking nautical element into the
main subject OF shoes. Here is an inauisitive
comment on the subject OF time:
wonder how the mother Hour
Can feed each hungry Minute.
And that every OF them
Gets sixty seconds in 1t.
And whether when she goes abroad,
She knows which ones attend her;
For all OF them are Just alike
In age and size and gender.
There are seventy OF these brief poems In the
book. and. as the subtitle declares. there are
grave ones among the gay.
F. .h,,o - ~, ~. -
for some years engaged In missionary work In
Uganda and the regions around II. publishes a
large volume entitled In Dwarf Land and
Cannibal Country. A Record OF Travel and
Discovery In Central Africa" Imported by
scribnersl The author makes no great pre-
tensions 10 literary ability and tells q simple
and unvarnlshed story Of life lived under many
conditions In Africa He gives an account OF
the Soudanese rebellion. OF many OF the stir
ring scenes Of which he was witness. and he
visited the Mountains OF the Moon and the
home OF the pygmies. At least one OF his adj
ventures may safely be said to he unique. The
reverend gentleman was one day riding his
bicycle along the Uganda main road. and. hav-
ing reached the top OF long hill. he decided to
try a coast" Near the foot OF the HILL" he
says. was slight turn In the road. and as
approached It put my feet again on to the
pedals. was going at great speed. and az
rounded the corner an awful sight met
my gaze; not twenty yards In front
there lay In the centre OF tho path
huge lion. with head down upon his
paws. facing the direction from which was
coming. 1t was impossible for me to stop the
machine. the speed was too great" Here wa,
indeed an unpleasant predicament for any
self-respecting missionary to find himself in
high wall OF rock To the left. q hundred foot
drop into river to the right and the lion
right ahead! Well may Mr. Lloyd remark.
1T was a critical moment" What could I
do7" lie continues. ITO turn 10 the right
would have meant almost certain destruction /;
to attempt to stop. even II successful. would
have meant pulling up at the entrance to the
jaws OF tho King OF the Forest" so the mis-
sionary rang the bell. shouted at the top OF his
voice and let the machine go at the top OF her
speed. 1t was too much for the noble beast
The sight OF a "scorcher" In the primeval
forest had such horrible effect on him that he
let out a blood-curdlinG yelp. turned tail and
fed.
The fourth volume OF Mr.. William Laird
Clowes's THE Royal Navy. a History" Lon
don. Sampson Low Co.: Boston, Little.
Brown 4 Co.. deals with events between
1888 and 1902 period not commonly
thought Of as one OF great naval activity.
yet covering the events Of our own Revolution
AIRY War. OF the French Revolutionary wars,
and such matters as tho great mutinies ut
Spithead and the More In 1897. and Can't
James Cooks voyages. Yet almost no period
OF equal length In the history OF the British
Navy is fuller OF events which in themselves
Just miss being OF the greatest interest. and
really have proved OF the highest Importance
to mankind.
No American writer contributes To the vol.
ume now before us; yet the story OF Paul
nj off tha nrit Iala Ia L.
tailed as even the most ardent American could
desire. Mr.. Henry W. Wilson Is the author OF
the chapters In the volume on the minor on
eratons OF the navy from 1903 to 1892; Sir
Clements Markham, President OF the Royal
Geographical Society, writes Of the naval voy.
ages and discoveries from 1853 to 1902; Mr..
Cloves has written the account OF the major
operations during the French Revolution and
Mr. Wilson looks after the minor operations OF
the same period.
How prolific OF discoveries which we accent
with indifference the period was may be known
by mere glance over Sir Clements Mark ham q
chapters, Wallis and Carteret from 17e8 to
1863, cruised in mo Pacific; Cook in his three
voyages, sailed from the Antarctic 10 the Attic,
discovering New Zealand. Australia, Easter
Island. and other places Vancouver explored
the western coast OF North America; Cant.
Biigh's unfortunate voyage in the Bounty
was one OF exploration and research; Brough-
ton surveyed the coasts OF China. Japan and
Corca; Matthew Flinders was famous for his
researches; and the maps OF the world chow
by the names of islands. lands and rivers the
far-rcachinG extent OF British naval explora-
lions IN tho forty years covered by the vol
ume before u.s.
Among the more strictly military operations
OF the navy in this period are to be named the
battle OIL pshant III 1901. between Lord