POINTS FROM PERIODICALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12860, 8 May 1905, Page 3

POINTS FROM PERIODICALS.

Japajt lias teen fighting our ■ battles. The World.

The dignity of labour no longer appeals to the labouring class.Ladies' Field.

One feels in Germany that, tho whole nation is at school.—Scribner's Magazine. ■•

Economy reaches little short of a national disease in France.—Scribner's Magazine.

.V drunkard is a liar, but a morphine maniac is an accomplished . liar. —The Lancet.

Only the painter or the ait critic is competent to form an opinion about painting.—lllustrated London News.

Britain lias never secured gratitude by self-abnegation from the days of Martinique to those of Majuba.—Pall Mall Gazette.

A long association with oven the most charming of women is not good for a man who is thoroughly m^scttiiHC.—Cosmopolitan.

If only we could emancipate ourselves from the perpetual fear of the opinion of others, how splendidly free life would become.—

There is nothing more dangerous than a sense of proportion. Not even the large and vital issues of his day seem important to a man whose sense of proportion is uncontrolled.—Saturday Review.

Whatever else may be said about the young people of to-day, they can at least claim to have improved upon the "wisdom" of their ancestors to the extent of recognising the abysmal folly and.fallacy of the love-in-a-cuttage sentimentalism.World.

No politician, can hope to reach a commanding position under a democratic .system who does nob cultivate the qualities that appeal to the multitude—the art of dressing up exaggerated half-truths in a picturesque form, and the power of 'swaying vast audiences by numerous strokes and, emotional appeals.—Sunday .Times.