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Evening Star, Issue 12721, 26 January 1906, Page 8

Bloodhounds are usually credited with being savage iu disposition This is a wrong idea, for bloodhounds are not, as a rule, cruel. They are simply trained to follow a scent, and their mission is bo track, not to injure, a fugitive. Escaping people are rarely injured by the pursuing hounds. Tho determination to indulge self-gratifica-tion of every kind, so far as ever it can be indulged, our leading thinkers are agreed in pronouncing to be now little short of a vice that threatens to take Ragland by storm.— Basil Tozer, in tho ‘ Monthly Review.’

The holly attains its greatest beauty in our islands, Though it is found in all parts of Europe, in America, China, and Japan, and stretches right away to the southern side of the Caucasus, it is only a shrub in these countries, while in England it is a tree.