AMONG THE BOOKS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 20 April 1912, Page 6

AMONG THE BOOKS.

"WIT AND WISDOM FROM NEW BOOKS. Thrice dangerous the insidious foe—the pleasure that comes in guise of a duty."—"Tales of Seven Islands," by -Kvelyn Adams. "Fate seems never more sardonic towards great men than when, having raised them up by giving opportunity to * their extraordinary talents, it discredits tnem by transferring them to a position which exposes their defects."—"The Life and Times of Cavour," by William Roscoe Thayer. "The good conduct of the public house depends not'so much on those who manage it as on those who habitually use it. and on the growth of a healthy 'national appreciation of its value."—"Old Country Inns," by Henry P. Maskell and Edward W. Gregory. "There are delicate boundaries within the realm of the eternal woman in which one is sorely puzzled as to what one had better put into an envelope—a poem or a cheque."—"The Indian Lily," by Her mann Sundermann.

"Given two people equally rich or equally poor, why should not the overture come from the woman ? But con-ventional-people will give us some psychological reason why it is impossible, the generally accepted one that man prefers to hunt his prev, and set; greater value upon those animals which are moat difficult to capture." "Ruskin says somewhere that woman has such unbounded influence in world for good that whatever gois wrong may fairly be considered her fault." -

"Modern woman, with heart and brain, has another end in view ; she is accused of selfish aims, and the desertoin of her sphere; but it is the harem-bred, pussy-cat woman who is selfish, and the black-leg of her sex." "Modern woman is working for tinfreedom and betterment of all, and recognises in that a far worthier aim than a soft nest for herself."—"Mere Man." by Margaret Dalham.

"Virtue is that quality of generosity which offers itself willingly for another\j service."—"Jeannie Gerhardt," by Mi Dresler.

"The history of war is full of instance ■ where so.end military principles hav been overjjjirdden by political or sentimen tal consideration."—"Naval Strategy " by A .T. Mahan. At the present time the novel and tV drama begin with 'marriage and end with misery.—Father Day. Old friends are best. King James use! to call for his old shoes; thev wcr _■ easiest for his feet.—Selden.

Those beings only are fit for solitude ~b~ 'ike nnbodv. nre like nobody, an! ■""" l'"k r -d by nobody.—Zimmerman.

Plnv-prorlT'."Jne '« like ence," which comes out ricrht abo--> nnoe in fourteen times.—Mr Henry .Arthur Jones.