Probably the purest English is spoken by foreigners. : Tho foreigner who really learns English makos .no mistakes. He knows his Lindley Murray from cover to cover; and his periods are Addisonian. We have to consolo ourselves with tho reflection that wo could do it if wo liked, but that wo don't want to.—"Globe." ' What a great gulf separates tho French stago from ours! The' reason is that in Paris play-writing is a profession. Hero it may bo regarded either as an amusement 'for.-spare time, or as a form of gambling more laborious and less lucrativo . than roulette.—"World." The non-sorious, non 7 political woman, who never tries, to understand tho why or wbercforo !of anything, believes now that a woman's desire for a vote really means a desire to down a policemnn or-a Cabinet Minister.—" Black and White."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 155, 25 March 1908, Page 8
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