Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-29

M. MaeterliileiS, from whom we are promised a volume of pure humor,"' exiled himself many years ago from his native Belgium, eiiafing under the studied refusal of his cpuntrymen ts appreciate his work, and made his home. Even the promotion of 8 Maeterlinck festival in Brussels five years ago and the bestowal on him by King Albert of the Order of Leopold failed to soften his estrangement. But the events of August, 1914, were more powerful. He wrote at once in pride and penitencs. offering to return to Belgium.
 it is a grim commentary on Bol- sheyik rule that the loss of one e-third saving of life. It is impossible to esti- mate the cost in blood of internal war such as the sanguinary Tretzhy has been conducting. We say that the Taiping rebellion cost between five and ten million lives. Sir Henry Blake, whose death is new in our minds, put the total at %, ,0oO, 900, and he obtained his data from Chinese statesmen of the first rank.
 Trotzky's eian of externainaticn re- sernhles conditions in China as por- trayed by. Sir Henry. The vanduished were always annihilated, not, he says, in all cases by the mere fury of de- struetive brutality, but in some cases by stern necessity. "A civilian army has its comTnissariat, barbariak horde has none, so the mouths for which the food was grown must be got Irid of, or else victors and vanquishefs must perish together of starvation T The Bolshevik naassed murderers have victims none;;e there is not enough food for either!
 Dickensians will be. interested in tht change of rectors at St. George the Martyr, Southwark, for what to many lis merely a. familiar tram terminus. is 1 to them 'the Church of Little Dorrit. Dickens knew St. Georges well during his boyhoed days. when ,he lived op- posite it in Lant street. during his 1 family's confinement in the adjacent 1 Marshalsea prison, and in Little Dor rit'' he made the cid church the scene where "the child of the Marshalsea' was christened, where she and Maggie found refuge one, night in the old yes Itry--remaining to this day very mucf l as he described it-and where at las she was married to Arthur Wenham, l The Library of Gray's Inn, whicl ] furnishes CamberweiI with a neE chief librarian, is centuries older thai the oldest public libraries. The exac date Of it's origin is unknown. but il 1855 Robert Chaloner bequeathed hi law books to his cousin, Rober l Nowell, ''to be placed in the Librar
 at Gray's Inn and secured there b, 1 chains" The growth of the collection
 was slow, for towards the close c l the 17th century it numbered oni
 S20 volumes. Today it ranks anon the best legal liharies in the kingdo1 Who has written the best poem oc 1 casiened by the war? A company c us were going over some of the goo
 things that had arisen out of eE events. One of the first to be tnerl toned as fin the running" was Pu lpert Broeke's familiar sonnet ha
 ginniTig, If I shollld die think onl this of me- X discrininating crit
 reminded Us of fie flaw noble fra Q
 ments by Julian Granfer. But th best of all! We claimed first place fc
 'Lengt.a of.Days, to the Early Dead j
 Battle by Alice Meynell
 Trade follows. the fae. they sav and. though the Sim Fein flag 9th original big drum. by the way, wa 1 carried off from Liberty Hall by
 young lady the week after the Haste rising. in Ireland is scarcely as W } unfurled, many tradesmen in Dubli ' and elsewhere are playing up to i
 There are hotels as we'll as boardin
 houses at which those of the faith a- Especially welcomed Sim Fein note ,, paper, Republican Calendars" "Re publican Easter Cards and "Renuf iican Preelanaations' are sold in shor on the quays. A haberdasher adve, tises. Shirts made by Rebels f. g Rebels"
 sI Arms which would have gone fro
 England to Russia will find then
 selves in American hands. Quite 2 1 interesting catalogue could be wri T ten of things that were to have bee n shipped through perileus seas t al Museoyy. Coffee, for example. is be
 ter, thanks to one such item A hant
 Some consignment of coffee -grinde Il was i,fe for shipment before the cart T quake came. That altered matter and today growers. whose coffee .fie been like broken beans, now grind 0 mixture creditabie to themselves ar
 economical customers. the prndnct