AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14486, 28 September 1910, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

Tiikrk is no greater nuisance in the world than the man who is always asking himself, " How does this affect me?" or "Have I been sufficiently considered Lord Selborne. A celebrated surgeon of the last generation, when asked to define a surgical case, gave as his definition, Any case that comes into my consulting-room," and the definition has had a long vitality.The Ho; piu'tl. A man is like a child—l think it was intended so, that wives should be taught to be long-suffering before they beeomo mothers. The Continuous Honeymoon," by inner Gillman. Schoolgirl friendships are laughed at and treated lightly; yet they foreshadow, both in intensity and ardour the loves and friendships" of later life. —"The Crimson Gate, by G. Colmore. The majority of us are very far from taking the comma seriously. In the letters which we write we use it in a gay and irresponsible manner. We make it servo all sorts of purposes; it is called upon to get us out of all sorts of scrapes.—Daily Sketch. Greek philosophy and logarithms aro not potent enough to make girls indifferent to a man's tonsorial attractions or blind. to the fact that lie lias matched his tie and his socks to a shade, and chosen a suiting that goes with his eyes."—Lady's Pictorial. It is much better stylo to say a thing happened to your uncle than to confess you made it up. "if you make things up people expect you to write a novel or something, whereas nothing can be expected from you if you say it happened to your uncle.—E. F. Benson. Had Buskin lived to see these days, we cannot doubt that ho would have found in tho American demand for Old Masters, and the dearth of patronage for our own artists, material for a final chapter in his "Political Economy of Art."— Athenaeum. Little By little, woman has emancipated herself from the state of servile bondage; now she is practically free. She lives her life according to the dictates of.her soul, and is not dominated by any craven fear of what man may think of her. If he does not like what'she does, he can, in vulgar parlance, "lump it."-'—Gentlewoman. Once, in earlier, harder ages, it was necessary to bo a groat man. a Pascal, a St. Francis, a Bossuet, or a Voltaire, that one might clearly hear the murmur of human' misery. To-day it is our highest triumph and our greatest cause of discomfort that it suffices to be onlv fairly intelligent and moderately sensitive in order to hear it verv clearlv indeed.—From The Way Up, by M. P. Wilcocks. 0X FOR SNOBS. "I don't care for nobility, I care for ability."—" Recollections of. Fifty Years." By Isabella Fyvie Mayo. WHAT WE HAVE COME TO. "In the old days a man went to battle with a stouter heart than he now takes to the dentist."" Bubbles and Troubles." By L. Lockhart Lang. WHERE SILENCE IS GOLDEN. "The man who praises his wife cheapens her, and he who criticises her cheapens himself."--" Diary of a Faithless Husband." By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. RICH MAN'S LABOUR. "Ennui is. after all, the one foe that we all fear; and, in arranging our life, the most serious occupation is how to escape it."—"The House of Quiet." By A. C. Benson. ARMCHAIR CRITICISM. " If you only knew what it is to knead ideas, and to give them form and colour, you wouldn't be so quick to criticise."— *" Balzac." By Frederick Lawton, M.A. SECLUSION THE REMEDY. " A woman of great beauty is almost invariably spoilt by admiration before she reaches si marriageable age."— " Diary of a Faithless Husband." By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. OUR MODERN SYSTEM. " A woman's education is complete when she has forgotten her arithmetic and has learned to play the piano well enough to drive people out of the house." —" The Undesirable Governess." By F. Marion Crawford. HOW NOT TO BE A WOMAN. " Love is woman's whole existence, and if she takes something else to her that ha 3 a great tendency to absorb one's nature, she is in a fair way for being a woman spoiled."—" Letters of a Modern Golfer to His Grandfather." By Henry Leach. WAITRESSES' DUTIES. " Runnin's one; racin's another; never lettin' a cup and saucer drop is a third. Cuttin' bread and butter and not cuttin' your fingers off is a fourth- . . Then you've to save the crumbs and let the ioaves take care of theirselves. Besides these things, you'll have to be very dickey with the gentlemen." —" The B.C. Girl." By L. T. Meade.