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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 82, 31 December 1907, Page 6

Tho "Fleshly School of Fiction" is mainly the reading of the wealthy and indolent members of : tho upper class, somo of whom nre dubbed "the Smart Set." The "ladies" of this particular section of society appear to revel in "Yahoo literature"; they talk of it everywhere, and pass, it round among their aristocratic acquaintances as "something too awful, my dear!—do road it!"— Mario Corelli, in "Tho Bookman." Mr. Itudyard Kipling is not a Socialist. Ho is an Imperialist, and an arrogant apostlo of filibustering and commercialism. But ho is likewiso a man of genius in his way, and tho sunbeams of Socialism break occasionally through the thick clouds of individualism that enshroud his view of the higher ideals oMiumau servico and sacrifice. —"Labour Loader." A Mitcham boy named Wilkinson who noticed a collie dog hiding something in a ditch at Figg's Marsh, and carefully covering it with earth, found thirty-three peunies hidden at the spot. Tho dog Had been taught to take pennies to a shop and'buy'himself a bun. Evidently when ho was not" hungry he jjut Uw money by for a raii,\y' day.