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whole life. Cheap wit may snigger at her manners, but it can no longei sneer at her morality. ■ The Victorian pride and prosperity have been shaken by the war and the economic earthquake, but in the da of adversity we are going back to the Victorian fundamentals. We have shed many of the Victorian illusions. But i our people are learning in a hard school : the stern lesson that the great Queen taught them, that the great good simple qualities ol character are their sole and only salvation. British prisons are to cost < ver £50,000 less in the current financin' year, but there is an increase of £448,821 in J the cost of the police force. | The British Ministry of Health esti- 1 mates that in the middle of 1930 there were 1,838,050 children between the ages of two and five in England and Wales. “ Will you buy this book from me?” “ No, we only buy whole libraries.” “ But this is my whole library.”