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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 5

Ordinary fiction is not bold enough for tho -natural man. Ho loves to road tales of wonder, of supernatural prowess, and of moro than human adroitness. And ho loves to havo these tales told simply and as everyday occurrences. Most .men aro inclined to exaggerate. Is it that makes many of us enjoy Baron Munchausen ?"-r"Granta.". It surprises us to obscrvo that there is' ! something of a, sensation in Berlin over British beauty. Wo are hurt to think that . our merits havo remained unacknowledged so long. Why, sinco tho days when a discriminating pontiff saw angels ill the! Anglos, it has ; boeii acknowledged hero that-wo havo the brightest eyes, tho straightest noses, the • rubiest of ruby lips, the penchiost of pcachy chocks, tho most Adonis and Venus-like forma of any pcoplo in tho world.—"Pall Mall Gazette."/; : ' ■Great Britain must maintain tho mastery of tho soa'as tho condition of her continued existence not only as ari.Empiro, but,as a nation, the • only alternative 1 being an : cmi- • so vast as to crumble the very bones of her strength.—"China Gazette," Shanghai. ' i: '■;' A There is nothing 1 so healthy, so necessary, or so rar4 as a good, hearty laugh. Pcoplo with a senso of humour arc mental physicians, and as for good comedians, thoy ara public bonofactors.—"Republicain," Lyons.