POINTS OF VIEW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12240, 8 April 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

POINTS OF VIEW.

Pot-hunting in Art leads nowhere.Mr. Alfred Gilbert, R.A. We must look after the stamina of our people if we are to sustain, the burden of Imperial responsibilities abroad.—South Wales Daily News. One can hardly be quite certain that one of the fashions of this season will not be to wear the red button of semi-teetotalism. — Court Journal. With all due respect to the sunny South, we are not yet prepared to admit that receiving negroes as guests at White House is a greater outrage than burning them at a stake.Kansas City Journal. The fact is the great need of the hour is that those who are in real earnest about the unemployed should take serious counsel together and endeavour to agree upon some sound practical proposal of a thoroughly radical tendency.—Now Age. In these days, when the Executive proposes to itself no higher ambition than " to muddle through somehow," and when the people's representatives in Parliament are content to be entirely subservient to the Executive, the fancy even of a Liberal politician may be excused for turning sometimes —in moments when ends seem more important than means—to the unrealised potentialities of the Throne.—Daily Chronicle. The policing of South America will have to be undertaken by somebody, and it is not unlikely that the hands of the United States may be forced.Dailv News. One result of the Education Act will be, unless and until its more objectionable features are removed, to provide fresh powder and shot for the Disestablishment crusade.— Daily Chronicle. Mr. Hall Caine has written to a branch of the "Dickens Fellowship" in the following generous terms:—"The revival of interest in Dickens is perhaps (he most remarkable literary event of my time." May one conjecture what lies behind the reservation in that saving word perhaps"? Punch. In a recent book on London the author dwells with no little enthusiasm on the beau tiful and softening effect of smoke on some of our public buildings. It is well, perhaps, to make the best of a bad job in this Way; but we think that.the way of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society is . better.—Pall Mall Gazette..' (_. ~" ' ' " It may be that the ostentatious abhorrence of marriage announced on the part of the dozen young ladies of ; Guildford may encourage gentlemen to tempt them to break their pledgejust as the cabman said, " I find that the blue ribbon encourages gentlemen to temrit me to have a drink."— Fair. : V' .. ."-.'■•' . ; :: ' "' The man "in the street has never understood the Education ? Act. The one thing that lives in his mind is that Nonconformists have pledged themselves to resist it, and he does not know whether., they will keep their word or not. He will wait and see, and. he will' judge Nonconformity by the result.— ; British Weekly. ". - ;t "