FROM THE MAGAZINES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 14

FROM THE MAGAZINES.

ST^M__R_KE S- : ,; by^mi-Sw^S^^^rkJ hand or foot fromlnsFd^-Vo b * the gasolene engines' for _?^^ av i surface and their e.ectrie nTi"V 1 H ning below. A disUncL -° rS for nj * n - made between fWM ibles. The former submerge the ballast-tanks w„TWa tef t 1 fif S by means of horizontal ference is, conversely, that heti' «. dtf " ier than air" and "Ughter in aeronautics. Brff-JgMgf - tmbmersibles, but they are \' __ aUj : "diving trim" hy water. When just in - «f_f_". '■?"--- - l3i*2iHs; . t them below very rapidly. When it is 1 sired to resume surface-running, ?£ water is blown out of the ballast-tank, by compressed air. At first submarine craft were M;»_ wnen under water. The yalmed ?t _? target before they went dow^lndtrfi to luck to hit it. But the invkion oft. |x=nscope has given thorn an ad__t____. if circumscribed, area of vision periscope is an application of our'dd . friend the camera obscura. It co-_ji___ of a tube reaching from the interibrnf the conmng-tower to some ten feet _by<l the deck. At the top is a lens, and '_> wards the bottom a prism, which com™ the image of objects received by the'lei. to a white table at the base of .he talk at which the officer in command *_H__ When submerged, the top of the periscoA is usually some three or four feet water. Submarines are meant'-for daj. light work, and the tiny wake out in H, water by the slender tube is not: ____.£; ered to be sufficient to betray the preset-.. of the submarine at a range -from. 'which j the torpedo can be discharged with effect though, on a smooth, clear day, it jg ______ ily seen up to half a mile or 80.-__at_. craft are fitted with two periscope.; o__ looking forward and one aft, in order tc minimise the danger of Gerard Fiennes, in tbe June issue, of th. "Pall Mall Magazine." MAX PBMBERTON TELLS 80___1>; MOTORING STORIES. Max Pemberton, writing in the j___ "Pearson's" on "The Great White High, road,'' recalls an accident w_uch.-_ef._-Charrles Jarrot in the Gordon-Bennett Race in Ireland. >.',,,•. "Mr Jarrot left the track at;eightjmiles an hour," he writes, "and careered for some hundreds of yards upbn\t_e hill crest before the final , somersault which put him out of the Tace. ,;He and his mechanic were laid out for dead in the barn of a farmhouse and neatly covered with tarpaulins. He told, ine that it was a unique experience, to recover consciousness after a ema-ir like that, and to .wonder, what had happened. For an instant he thought he had ieea buried alive; then he -put up*his'-Tiahd'"' and discovered the tarpaulin, and.»_ Jo' the presence of another accommodating corpse in the room. '■:'"'-' '

[ "'Are you dead?' he asked his'me-' ' ehanic, and got the cheery'respoise,T don't think so.' When they: emerged from the barn, the peasants scatfered immediately, believing that they #_fe looking upon -men risen from the grave." "There are many stories tola of tie humours of Irish Mr iPem- • berton states, "and none mo.e-h_mo.o__ than those in connection .with her police. It ia Lord Montagu who relates an'epi-' sode'in -he-Gord-on-Bennet_s r two constarblce were posted at £partidu--larly dangerous -caniveau'"to warn-'tie - approaching cars of their'peril. Lord Montagu arrived to see a ".Napier lei. high into .tie- air over this culvert; .id ■ immediately afterwards the : .perfon_ai_. was repeated by one of the I.en_i I teams. The spectacle appeared, to-aim-. the two constables enormously. : - v; '"That -was the best wan of all,' -theysaid, when a third car came along -end gave a terrific bound. , • •- "Apparently their idea was to warn the drivers after they had-taken->-t_« plunge. They were certainly I. oa-.tli. wrong side of the culvert to-do-.._-}.■ thing else." .. , -. , A PUGILISTIC Pffl-tfSOPHER.'; "Boxing is Maeterlinck's .passion,.,"? much so that he has arranged, to .tab his instructor with him to St. his summer home, lest he should be, utable to find a fellow man to punchJ! the solitude of his Norman abbey,* writes Mr Ralph Maude—a brother o! the actor-manager—in the June "Pea. son's Magazine." "Boxing has even led Maeterlinck into places by no means to his taste. lons met him in a bar—a very fish'. 1 ou|. ofwater—attracted there by the news that the young French champion,' Carpentier, frequented it. ..,'■';. -. "He waited uncomfortably for' the prize-fighter, and eventually dragged Mis off to luncheon, where they talked fin? chat till the afternoon threatened'to;become evening. '~: , "The Press heard of this luncheon, and got from it a story to the. effect that Carpentier had persuaded. Maeterlinck to consent to appear with'him in-'.tha ring at a charity matinee in rPari"'.'_ I could scarcely .believe this possible,:and wrote to Maeterlinck to ask for.-'.tfi. truth. , , - "'C'est un canard,' he wrote'back.. ... "Mr Maude first met Maeterlinck "'ii, * prize fight in Nice. .' " N , _-,_.-■'/. "I was with the great poet-dra-natfet .philosopher, hard at work .. discussing pugilism," he says, "while Kid McCoy in his ring dress "stood by listening—understanding, I fear, but "little of. a. con. , versation of necessity carried.on in French. ~,_. '-•. V "Then the fight began, and, if the skill. of the boxers was great and the contest, thrilling, there was more interest in the study of the poet's face. Immovable;''* sat, his eyes fixed on the combatants,.his face drawn and white with,the. excitement of it all. And only as the watch-holder called time did the muscle* of that face relax, and a -word come tr the set lips. " 'Comme c'est beau,' he kept mimnn ing, 'Comme c'est beau!'" •• i- '