Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-25
Cleaned from Foreign Ex
 changes

Dr. Gore, who resigns the Bishopric
 or Oxford, is one of the few prelates
 who smoke, and the still fewer who keep abreast of modern literature He
 once said: When travelling about
 in trains 1 am in the habit of consol-
 ing myself with the thought of the pleasant time when 1 shall be at home and can take up a pipe and book Although the author of many popu- lar works, he once confessed Iflac there had been only one remarkable event in his. literary career. Accused of wrongly using a verb, he turned ID the word in Dr. Murray's big dictionary. and found himself confronted with a quotation of it from ones of his ot1n books. This was 8 standing rebuke for his bad grammar. being the only known instance of that particular use l of the word in the English language Never at loss for the right answer Robert Browning could always get out
 of difficulty. And perhaps the full CT version of the story alluded to in our Saturdays issue is this:
 | Being unable to make head or tail l Of certain passage in Browning an experience in which they were not alone a small local Browning Soci- 1 ety determined to write to the poet and ask him If he could explain" i Duly the answer came back: Ger i-tainly I could explain the meaning of i the phrase, but if l did what would 1 be the use of the Browning Society?r The visitors, who will swell the mu- sic of the air, are due here in a few days, and but for this bitterly cold 1 spell one of hem at least would be i here already Meanwhile, keen ob-
 servers are alertly watching to find !, inI, ! gale, swallow or cuckoo. Gilbert White found that they generally come
 ill the order given, but nowadays the i cuckoo is. often in advance of the !; others, and nearly every year it fal , Silies the Worcestshire tradition that
 it is never till enbury Fair day, which is April 20.
 Both cuckoo and nightingale are often seen before they are heard, for n each ease the male bird arrives in advance of the female. How the hap
 ,.py pair fix on the rendezvous and keef, fthe appointment are mysteries the
 naturalist has yet to solve.
 Before General Mangin became famous as the man who secured the
 freedom of Verdun from the German
 menace and later delivered the great counter stroke on the enemy's right ,i fiank-Which was the first step in their
 f final overthrow-he was known as the
 crea tor of Frances African army.
 When war broke out he had over
 twenty years experience as q soldsr in the French Sudan, Congo. East
 Africa and Morocco, and it was his
 book called Black Power which per-
 suaded the Republic to organize their African forces for contnigency such as occurred in the great war General Mangin has as great d repu-
 tation as a diplomatist as a soldier , Strong and suave, he is born leader
 of men.
 IF you care to apply the acid test
 to the Kaiser's plea presented through 7 the medium of Mr. Harold Begbie that , he was mere puppet in the hands oi , greater villains, turn to the recorded , sayings of Bismarck on his ungratefu , Master. T am pleased to find" sai6 f the statesman after his dismissal 5 that the Emperor means to under take personally the work of govern : ment, but 1 wish he had told me sooner. l should have prepared fol myself a better exit" } When the new Kaiser was planning , to meet the King of Italy, Bismarck was asked whether he was also going
 He said; Tt is not thing of my : choosing. The Emperor would frs have to request my company. I can. not go to his Majesty and say, Here ? l am; I mean to accompany you " , Elderly people are going about de l claring that in the. days of thei Q youth they never had to shiver il = winter clothing. after the sun hat S crossed the line at the vernal equinox f Spring was always genial in the goo, f fold times. But in these matters mem : ory is very unreliable guide Si : U, ". Moore a few years ago laid be : fore the members of the British As Il sociation the result of an investiga ;, T1:1 N