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Shelley's Sense of Humor.

LIE cared little for comedy, at
IL least in his early years. He
was too intense, too deeply grieyed
over the imperfections of life. His
sense of humor developed later than
his other faculties. but a lively
sense of fun he always had. He
cared for serious books, just as he
preferred serious discussions to
jokes and banter. Yet he would
burst into gales of laughter. He
was the best of companions, a
master of the art of conversation,
the friend of children: and his
pleasure in boats was an unfailing
enthusiasm, whether he made them
of paper and sailed on them in
imagination or pulled at the oars
on the Thames or the Arno, or
fioated on that fatal sea which no.
body else has reproduced in such
living forms.-By Gertrude Slaugh-
ter in the North American ReUeiio.
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Dickens at Yale.

WITH the departure from Boston
w for Worcester, Springfield,
Hartford and "a place called New
Haven" began the observations on
American travel, American hotels.
American expectoration, which were
in the main excluded from Amer
ican Notes." and which make the
vital interest of the letters. After
two hours and a half by boat from
Springfield to Hartford = queer
travelling Dickens AYERS = he
undertook bold venture-the train
journey to New Haven. This was
completed speedily in three hours.
and Dickens was again in univer-
sity life. But alas for Yale. Whereas
the young men of Harvard Univer-
sity had yearned as one man to sit
under the novelist as a teacher.
these others, more carnal, craved
no intellectual mama. Instead,
they sang to him-yes, sang to him,
under his window at bedtime. And
unsuccessfully. The Yale students.
declared the Atlantic Monthly, in
the dear, familiar phrase, were
there in force" Dickens's amaze
ment at this custom was not wholly
pleasurable. "And when" re SAYS
sadly. "at last We got to bed and
were going to fall asleep, Choir
listers of the college turned out in
a body. under the window, and
serenaded us! We had had, by
the-by, another serenade at Hart
ford, from Mr.. Adams Ga nephew
of John Quincy Adams) and Ger
man friend. They" says this cut
ting novelist, were most beautiful
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Hamlet and the Psychoanalysts.


THE psychoanalysts continue to
i buzz in a mysterious manner
round the problem of Hamlet. They
are especially interested in the
things of which Hamlet was un-
conscious, not to mention the
things of which Shakespeare was
unconscious. 1t is in vain for old
fashioned rationalists like myself
20 point out that this is like dis
secting the brain of Puck or reveal
ing the real private life of Punch
and Judy. The discussion no longer
revolves round whether Hamlet is
mad, but whether everybody is
mad, especially the experts investi-
eating the madness. And the Curl
Gus thing about this process is that
even when the critics are really
subtle enough to SEE subtle things
they are never simple enough to
see self-evident things. A really
fine critic is reported as arguing
that in Hamlet the consciousness
willed one thing and the subeon-
sciousness another. Apparently the
conscious Hamlet had unreservedly
embraced and even welcomed the
obligation of vengeance, but the
shock 1--WE are told) had rendered
the whole subject painful and
started a strange and secret aver
sion to the scheme. 1t did not seem
to occur to the writer's that there
might possibly be something slight
ly painful. at the best, in cutting
The throat of your own uncle and
the husband of your own mother
BY g. X. Chesterton in the Neic
Witness.
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Hearn Reading and Writing.

LIE did not sleep at 6S GasQuet
IL street, but at the corner of
Gasquet and Robertson, in an up-
stairs room which his friend. DR..
Matas. describes as quite bare of
furniture, save for the bed and a
chair or so, and his trunks of valu-
able books-of which, as is well
known. Hearn had a remarkable
collection. Rare books and queer
books were his passion, and while.
as book reviewer for the Times.
Democrat, he got hold of all the lit
erature of the day, he really cared
most for the odd volumes which ne
unearthed by means of foreign cat
alogues of unusual and little known
publications. These he would
treasure, and often have rebound
in costly fashion, so that those worn
old trunks held books of great
value, both to the lover of rare VOL
umes and to the lover of fine bind
jngs An old leather travelling bag,
which sat upon one of these trunks,
made the desk on which, with his
yellow paper very near his~one
myopic eye, he wrote with great
speed, in a fine clear hand, page
after page of exquisite translation,
paraphrase, criticism or speculation,
rewriting passages again and again
till the words seemed to express
exactly his shade of thought
From "Ldfcddio Hearn in Neic Or
leans" By John S. Kendall in the
Double Dealer.
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The Prototype of Mar,owe's Jew
of Malta"

r BELIEVE that considerable
l. more similarity to Marlowe's
Barabas is found in the character
of a later Jew of Cvustantinople,
David Passi, whose career reached
its elimination, after salf dozen
years of European nHtoriety, IA
March, 1891, some ele.'n months
before the earliest extait reference
to ''The Jew of Malta" Il will be
observed from the excerpts given
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Younger Sons.

II UNDREDS of novels, scores of
IL plays. and many dramas of
real life have had for their key
note this distinction between the
first born son and the rest of the
family; Thackeray, for instance,
elaborated it in the case of the
Pitt-Crawleys. In country dis
tricts, as Hardy has told us, there
are many peasant families de-
scended from the younger sons of
great houses. Younger son" has
stood for centuries as a synonym.
for good blood and empty purSnf
On the other hand, the needs of
younger sons have given us a long
succession of soldiers, sailors, coll
onists, clerics. jurists, administra-
tors. and not a few statesmen
From the Manchester GRdrdian.
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Shakespeareana.

7 DO not doubt but an allegory
could be made out of every play
Shakespeare wrote; but to say that
he himself made them is another
affair. While he may have been a
philosopher lin parts" as l see him
he was first of all a poet, secondly
a working dramatist He had other
things to do than to make allie
gories, or even masterpieces. He
had to fill his theater. THE Tenn
pest" contains its own evidence of
its aim and scope. The ostensible
fable is the real fable. From be-
ginning to end it is plain that Pros
pero is intent upon his lost duchy,
Sebastian and Antonio upon the
murder of Alonzo, Ferdinand upon
Miranda, Miranda upon him, Cali
ban and Ariel upon their rights
Caliban, to be sure, goes near to up
setting the play, as Shylock does
"The Merchant" Malvolio Twelfth
Night" and Leontes "A Winters
Tale" One of Shakespeare's foibles
was to allow himself realistic treat
ment of one character in a play of
fantasy.-By Maurice He,olett in
the London Times.
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"The Beggar's Opera Comes to
Town.

ID LAYS with a song or two in
l. the yernacular had been heard
of as pleasing to the lower orders,
but opera proper had only been
born with that great advent of Ital-
ian singers in London which Addi-
son deplores: and even so had
lived a financially precarious but
gradually Frightening life as il
became the fashion for Fashion to
ratronize ii, until the Italian Op-
era was the thing-and the 6fly
thing-for any one who was any,
body to be seen at Yet il seems
never to have paid. Swift is said
to have remarked TO Gay that "a
Newgate pastoral might make an
odd pretty sort of thing" and this
may have been the seed which ger
minated in the authors brain: but
Gay-naturally satirical, and with
the bitterness bred of his misfor-
tunes-had many an AK tc ind.
and it was his luck to touch the
frolicsome humor OF the hour. Beg
CARED in the South Sea Bubble. the
unfortunate poet had led a thwarted
life, seeking. and not finding, the
preferment from the great which
he considered due to his talents.
and making his position worse by
sneers at the Court and the Gov
ernment.-Fron "'Thc Beg0ars/
Opera IN the Eighteenth Ccnfur
By Mrs. ComynS Carr in Blu
GOODS Hagdziae.
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American Books and English
Readers.


IN spite of Mr.. Sinclair Lewis's
L fierce diatribe against the Eng
lish readers of American novels,
the British public is just now very
appreciativc of every kind of Amer
ican book. In addition to two or
three excellent sensational Ameri-
can novels, which are having con-
siderable success among the many
who delight in that particular kind
of story, 'Mooncalf," by Floyd
Dell. is pleasing the same kind of
reader who delighted years ego in
what was then called the hilltop
novel, while another American
story of very different cate
CORY, called "The Girls" which has
sold very largely in the United
States, is also finding many readers
here.-FrOm the London Times. /,
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Shelley's New Melodies.

THE lovers of Shelley make most
Il of his shorter and more lyrical
poems. each the product of a single
inspiration, and meeting most per-
fectly the test of Poe that a poem
should give single impression of
beauty. Few English poets have
been more wisely submissive to the
inner movement of feeling and
fancy. Few have listened more
reverently for the special strain of
music vouchsafed to their ear alone.
Shelley was not the singer to piece
out his authentic melody with the
cold inventions of the mind, to
force his delicate imagination into
the cramping mold of some ap-
proved thought or prearranged
sentiment. The wind bloweth where
il listeth, and Shelley, following the
wind of his inspiration, has added
as new and varied melodies to Eng
lish poetry as Chopin has to Euro
pean music.-By Joseph w. Beach
in the Yale ReUieic.
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An English View of "Thc For
syte Saga.

T CONGRATULATE Mr.. Gals
i worthy and his publishers on
their enterprise in collecting into
one volume, with the title THE
Forsyte Saga" the five novels de-
voted TO the development and decay
Of one of the most typical and cele-
brated families in ERglish fiction.
These books, beginning in 1906
with "A Man of Property" and end
ing in 1921 with ITO Let" have
taken place of their own in Eng
lish literature that is comparable
only with that occupied by groups
of the Balzac novels. - From the
Saturday Revieio.
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mains of working toward some
climax, although it may not be that
which you first had in view.-By
Archibald Marshall in the Yale Re-
UieD.
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ness are not so commendable as he
would have us think.-By II. G..
Wells in the London EUening
Standard.
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singers. s.-By Stanley T. Williams
in the North American Reviem.
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The Novelist and His Characters.


A LTHOUGH it is necessary to
"A have in your mind from the
beginning a definite point toward
which your characters are to work,
it is quite unnecessary that they
should arrive at that exact point,
and indeed they seldom actually do
so. You have given them life, and
q will of their own. You begin by
leading them, and presently they
begin to lead you. They won't do
this or that that you have laid
down for them and if you force
them to it they will lose what life
they have already acquired, or at
least they will refuse any longer to
help you in working out your story,
which will be a serious thing for
you. 1t may be rather serious for
you that they refuse to take the di-
rection you have appointed for
them, for it may upset altogether
the plan of your story, and espe-
eially the ending of it. IL this hap
pens, you must find another plan
and another ending. 1t will b,
much easier to find than the first,
and your characters will help you
to find it. They are fully alive now,
and partners in your enterprise.
They must still, and always, be
controlled. You can't afford 20 let
them go off upon any quest to
which their more abounding vital
ity directs them. The necessity re-
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The ocean bottom CLOVIS with a pale
gresnish purple phosphorescehce, The
animals themselves give light. A
streak ~ dots nit BY. like the gleam.
ing portfolios Of a. steamer passing In
the darkness. It is a large, plump
bellied fish. Old tiger eyes sees it.
He lunges after those fitting lights
with a ferocity that would put a shark
to shame. He seizes hold Of the plump
belly. "A terrible wrestling match be-
gins.
The two fish tug together, flashing
their tails with fury. Tiger eyes has
sunk his long fangs into the yielding
flesh of hia prey. and is holding with
a bulldog grip. The bigger fish is help.
less before him. He founders, he
gasps water through his gills. He
floats upward. Tiger eyes pulls him
down. In the deep sea it will not do I,
to venture far above the bottom. In
air we fear to fill In the water lest
we be drowned.[ This Is cur only
danger from the dement's. A person
is seldom, lifted bodily into the air and
torn - pieces. But deep see fish face
this peril constantly. At the E bot-
tom the water pressure Is enormous,
many tons to- each square inch-so
greatsthat the stoutest steel tube Is
crushed and fiattened. To exist at all.
all living ussues therebmust be porous,
with water, ~perlneating every cell.
While there ID equal pressure both in
side and out, there seems to be no
pressure at all-4that is, not Until a
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the gloom nor waves agitate the deep.
soft MUD.
Perpetual night reigns on the sea
floor. In the deeps,! i've miles below
the sursace, there never comes a
change. The sun beats brightly on
lsotne rank tropical isle. Gnats hum in
the sunshine; natives Shuttle lazily
along in the oppressive heat. Five
miss below the blue waters the u
might not exist, for all the light it
sheds, while the waters are the temper
allure of melting slush,
The black depths are alive. Life
swarms In the potlioles in the oceans
bed. Animals >are everywhere long
legged ye,iow crabs. that look like
spiders; red crawfsh, cells, angle flsh,
and queer dcnizens never seen any
where else q earth.
Often. tho fish In caves are blind.
They had no heed for eyes. and 50
these organs atrophtsd.. One might
suppose. that In the inky sea depths,
there would be no needsdor sightaand
that all thss creatures There would be
eycless.. Some are. Here there are ~.
trenes In eyes. Some fish have small
dots the sises OF buttons. but see the
glaring. tigefy5 orbs u this monster
swimming towards us!
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How different men are ,slatsd.

vsncals, as well as some Welsh, Irish,
and Scotch-belong to the Semitic
race.
The middle race in Europe is the
Alpine. Alpine people have globular
skulls. round faces, dark eyes ind
hair, and a robust, stocky build. They
are ali upland people nnd flourish best
in rhouhtainoHs places. Most French,
Swiss. savoyards, Tyroleans. southern
Slavs. Greeks, Turks, Ukrainians. 81.
leslans. Prugsians, Be1gians, and Lux.
embourgers are Alpine. The race cxs
tends far into central Asia. Arfleni-
ans. tTartars, and Turkonens belong,
to this division of mankind.
i Aryans are thd northerhmost Of Cat.
casians. They originally lived in the
basin Of the Baltic sea and eastward
III Russfa, but as Anglo. Saxons, Irish.
&Celtsy Gauls, Romans, Greeks, Goths,
Huns, tTeutons, and Scandinavians
they have migrated over most Of the,
earth. IN
Aryan1 are the, only race Of people
ir-the world whose skins are consist.
entity white. They are White men par
exceltence. Fairness Is due to a thin
skin and lack OF brown pigment.
Many Aryans are 50 fair that blood
Shows through their skins, giving
their faces q pink color.
Aryans atthe present time are also
the, highest civilized people In the world,
!, ii. orderly government. law. military
power, and arts and sciences be a cri.
terien of culture. SO greatly does
& this race exceed the others that they
are everywhere the rulers OF the earth,
although o~utnumbered BY those Of
darker skin about . to I.
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change of level Is attempted. Should
the big bellied victim float too high
with tiger eyes. some of the pressure
would be released, and both Of them
would burst. open. Tiger Eyes knows
this, and he struggles to stay OF the
bottom.
At last the big victim dies, worn to
death by WEAKNESS and the fendings
Of his killer. Then tiger eyes opens
his mouth. Can he swallow a fish 50
much larger than himself? Just watch.
His jaws creep, inch by inch. along his
victim. His outlet swells and stretches
like rubber. He pulls himself over h
dead fish. His belly encompasses the
arcass, his muscles neatly roll his
meal into a bah. His jaws close. He
is an odd looking creature now, with q
stomach twice the size Of his body. He
settles in the mud. He will be very
still now, lest sofAe bigger, more saw
aye fish than himself find him ana.
eat him. stomach and all. FACTORING
silt covers him. He hides, with only
his mouth and gills ~protruding, exnd.
ing nc odor and giving no light.
Many of the deep sea Ash are ex,
eeeedingly primitive, and areSsimilar to
those fresh water forms which are
long since dead and turned to fossils.
The ocean depths are refuge spots,
where conditions are 80 unchangiag
that .anachronisfng Of the animal world
can hang on there when their races
perish elsewhere Under tho grind or
progressive eroluttons.
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This set can be hidden. ;.
AN AERIAL.


N aerial does not need to hang
~ out of doors. The materials Of
~ a housc-brick, roofing, and
wood, everything. in fact, except
lnetal-are perfectly transparent to
ether waves. The only reason an
aerial is usually hung over n roof is
to get it high. Those of You who can
not put an aerial out should put it as
high as you can indoors.
A few wires strung If an attic or
hung near the ceiling Of an apartment.
or even laid along picture molding or
beneath a rug, will serve well. An
iron he'd whose four posts are set in
dishes will make nc mean aerial.
Y But if you cannot get a good aerial
location be sure you improve your
ground connection all you can. The
ground is quite as important as the
aerial.
Most houses are equipped with gas
pipes, water pipes. or other iron that
runs down to, damp earth. If you
haven't any such connection, make me.
either burying a sheet of chicken wire
in damp earth or driving m iron rod
deep into the ground.
An indoor aerial is one of the easiest
Of objects to conceal. During the war,
when all amateur radio was forbidden,
inside aerials f1ourished and there was
no way whereby they could be de-
tected.
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MEN ASfHEYARE.

ONE time, long before man be.
came man, but while he was still
a four footed creature, the three
~ stocks separated which were to
make the Caucasian, the Monaghan,
and the Negro, Each of the three
carried enough Of the human impulse
to make a man, but the final results
were not all alike.
C%aucasians remained progressive
and followed the trend Of human evo-
luton. Mongolians remainbd print.
tive. Negroids struck OFF on q radical
tangent which turned their hair from
wavy to crisp, their pigment from mod
crate to heavy, their skulls from mod
crate to extremely long, and made
their bodies exceedingly muscular.
The "wild man Of Borneo = or East
Indian human prototype is q Malay,
! or southern MongolI almost as low in.
culture as@ men gO.y
1t would be unfair to say which men
are the lowest, for all men are exactly
of an age in evolution. The most de-
graded Papuan or native of the Congo
iungles is as far progressed from bis
original ancestor as q great artist or
statesman, only his trend is away from
ours. The three great races pf man
kind are, separating. They are draw
ing apart Sas} fast as evolution u
carry them, with no hope Of q future
union, even t the end OF time.
Negroes are growing more negroid
with each generation, Mongols SSHfe
\ acquiring a deeper, strain Of yellow
skin; while white peopieSate becoming
winter everyday
The earth Is naturally divided into
different ethnic zones, with each race
native in it's own place. Equatorial
Africa, southern. India, Pabua, Aus.
tralia;, Milanesia. and part Of the Phil
iplpi1es are the home OF the.b black race.
Mongolians inhablt, dill. Of Asia north
and east Of the Hitnaiaya chain and
south Of the desertFto OF Mongolia. Al
Malays they reach far Y Into the
Pacifc,3 and az Indians and Eskifnof
Ssthey inhabit all otAAtietica.
Cnndcasians range from St1gapgre te
Feeiand, and frorA the Sahara deaert
to the tIhhdras. OF Russia, .EuInsiaflt
= are divided into three srouHBs, md seRct
OF these mas its own habitat.
rhessouthefnmost Of the C~aupasiap,
are the Gemites. You can tSlls this rac,
by It'll shiny black hair, long head Ant
Ace large black eyes, weakt3NM AM
slight build. Iiindtis. sysddAhss sakaia
I Arabs, EgyptiAns Youth E~ttroreans--
spapiards, 3siciliatis: and pre
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IT s. f. q Il S
7HRoUGH MicRoscoPk.

NtD YOU ever look at a51uttefhy's
wing through the microscopic I'll
- is ain object Of wonderful and In
tricate beauty. This Insects
wings are covered with q sort 9 --dnst.
Ii youssho1lu hanhl1 them roughly the
colots uhdabeauty would come on.
The first thing the microscope fe-
veals> " d, wing covered with d multi.
tu5e Of scales. Coming nearer We OBJ
:ssEve they, are all arranged inseschelun.
lik~esahihgles on arSof. Looking closer
We zee each scale 10 notched several,
times, stving. Il % textlreg.mofe orTa,.
mental thbAn eten the faneiest shingie
roofing. &: Il
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They revolve about tho south pole OF
the heavens. but from our ATTITUDES
they never come above the horizon.
A sky map is a picture Of the entire
dome Of the heavens, projected on a
fiat Of paper. A sphere and n plane are
really incompatible objects, and SO the
projection of the sky map car never
represent stars as they will be on a
photograph.
A new sort of sky map is given here.
1t has the James Of directions printed
about its periphery. To use 1t, face
any direction you wish. Then u
the map until that direction is down,
and The stars before you in the sky can
be identified on the map.
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Z A s TR>o N o ~ -
THE A AND THE SKY.

THE STARS AND THE SKY.
TIME sky is an infinite expanse in
every direction. but to us it seems
like a great hemispherical dome.
resting On. the horizon. This IS
an, optical Illusion, caused by the
earth.
The world Is a sphere. It is a fact Of
geometry that any chord Of o sphere.
however large or small, always ap-
pears as a circle from q point above
the surface. Our horizon is such a
chord. 1t is q small. chord, seldom
moro than five or six miles in diameter.
but it always looks exactly round to us.
The t%angential ring, or place where
earth and sky seem to meet, is equally
distant from us in all directions. max.
ing the heavens look like 4 dome with
our eyes in the exact center.
The stars do not move straight
across this vault from east to west.
They o slantingly, as though the
whole sky were pivoted on the north
star. All those stars which lie> within
the radius from the pole to the hori.
zon never sit, but wheel about continu-
ally above the horizon, day and night.
The celestial equator. which corre-
spends to the equator of the earth and
is a projection Of it, cuts the horizon at.
the points Of exact east and exact west.
All those stars which are north Of the
equator remain visible longer than they
are hidden, while those to the south arc
below the bulk Of the eartl, longer than
they are above It.
Is AS we approach the points Of south.
we see stars which just appear. grace
along the tops and then disappear for