AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14017, 24 March 1909, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

Paris is growing uglier day by day.— M. Rodin. . ~■:./',.'.' ' " ... I ; • _____ ■''•'.''. ... ■,:; Everything in the world is a one-man job.—Rudyard Kipling, y The most certain signs of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.Montaigne. , . The infatuation lor bridge has become a vice and a moral pest.—Judge/Barry. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.—Helen Keller. . It is a harder thing to write a good play than almost anyone realises.Professor Gilbert Murray. ". f; Where there is no vision, the people perish. , Few professional philosophers have any vision.—-Professor James, in Hibbert Journal. * ' ' Man, when once he has won the love of that one woman in the wide world for him,, and made her his wife, is apt .to grow indolent.— Madame. We have learned painfully that the relatively light esteem in which the did school of generals used to hold the auxiliary services was a source of real danger.—Mr. Haldane, M.P. . " , Men are eternally divided into the two classes pf poet (or believer, maker, and praiser) and dunce (or unbeliever, unmaker, and dispraiser).— • Some people, however indifferent they may become after a considerable space of absence, always contrive to leave a pleasant impression just at parting.Charlotte Bronte. Of the melodramatist we require merely the negative virtue that he shall not lie; of the tragedist we require the positive virtue that he shall reveal some phase of the absolute, eternal truth.—The Forum. There never was an Empire that offered such opportunities to all men as ours and I sometimes think that there never was an Empire whose people took less advantage of these opportunities.—Rudyard Kipling. It is not a miserable fear for his owe carcase that weakens the will of" the average commander, but rather a generous hesitation to send others to their fate. General Sir lan Hamilton. ; If the development of wireless telephony be as lapid as wireless telegraphy, it may be expected that within the next 30 years it will be possible to telephone without wires, not only to any ship crossing the Atlantic, but to any city within a range of 2000 or 3000 miles.—Professor Marcliant. • When we read in most newspaper reports that "Loud cheers" followed some ordinary observation as that Natal is more important than England, or that men who have bought .peerages have proved themselves above corruption, it is commonly difficult to know whether the applause was the deafening clamour that shakes a building or merely that hearty, but indistinct, murmur which greets an admittad truth.G. K. Chesterton. Whatsoever her children's woes, Nature pursues her broad and tranquil way. Every unhappy soul, she knows, is in her large hands. This pain they suffer, this remorse or grief which sends a dark, distracted figure peering and threshing through her silver sleep, frantically asearch lor some poor friend who is in danger of perishing by the way—this pain she knows is only growing pain, the rack upon which man conies to higher stature.—Arabella Kenealy. Women who hustle may be divided into two classes— brainy ones, who. with an objective point ever before their mental vision, collect their forces, and eventually come out winners, and those who while perhaps as gifted as the former, are what might be termed general hustlers." These, are always in a hurry, always pushed for time, their minds are in a perpetual muddle, and they manage to keep things in a corresponding state of perplexity.—Pauline Corri. " SAYINGS OF THE DAY. You can't be emotional with a typewriter.—Mrs. Katharine Macquoid. It is easy enough to be thrifty on £18 a week, but-not so easy on 18s.—Mr. Will' Crooks. " J\ j " , I have come to London determined that the people shall get as much as possible of value from my services.— Carrie Nation. - ' - ■ :'. I know some churches. like ice-houses and some that produce types like .an anaemic girl with a hectic flush. —The Rev. J. E. Rattenbury. People are far more affected by what the.' see of the finished article than by all ' the ' niceties of doctrine important though they are.—The Bishop of London. A great many believed that when thirty Labour men were returned to the House of Commons they would re-create that House, put an end to Capitalism, nationalise the land, and nationalise the railways, but if , the thirty became sixty, or even six hun- , dred, they could not do it.—-Mr. Ramsay Macdonald. •