AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14492, 5 October 1910, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

Time is the repeater of all things.— Cygne. Politeness is benevolence in little things. —Lord Chatham. The name of friend is common, but faith in friendship is rare.—Phaedrus. A man should never bo ashamed to own he has been in the wrong.—Pope. There is no greater handicap in life than a distinguished father. —Engleman. Busybodies attend to everybody's affairs except their own.—Hartley Coleridge. Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.—George Campbell. The moral amelioration of man constitutes the chief mission of woman.Auguste Comte. The lessons of adversity are often tho most benignant when they seem the most severe.—Chenevix. The three foundations of judgment: Bold design, frequent practice, and frequent mistakes.—Catherall. To bear pain decently is a good sign of inward strength, and an undoubted proof of a great mind.Elmes. Few qualities are more dangerous than a flashy kind of bravery, unaccompanied by nerve and discretion.—Clifford Cordley. I thoroughly _ belie that you will get much more out of a man by praising him than by finding fault with him.— L. Courtney. The one qualification necessary to small beginnings becoming great enterprises is thrift and carefulness, bordering on parsimony.—Harry Furniss. A man who has had a college education gets an atmosphere about him that nothing else can give him ; but I doubt if it does him any good.George H. Collinson. Ought not any aviator who kills someone be charged with manslaughter? That is probably the view that will be token by coroners' juries and the public.—Field. Let us take care that in straining after what is desirable we do not lose what is vital and essential, that in grasping what we should like to have we do not slip down into tho bog.—Earl of Rosebery. i " Everything has its price, and the price buys that and not something else," and those who marry for love will probably have much to sacrifice in the way of ambiti6n.Lady Ava Campbell. Selfishness producesielfishnese; indolence increases with every hour of indulgence; and what is left undone because it is difficult to-day will be doubly difficult to-morrow.— Ellis. The sad defect about the progress of the human race is that, whilst we are occupied in learning one thing, we are almost always engaged in forgetting another.—Bishop Gore. "Poole, the famous tailor of Savile Row, was once invited to Sandringham. On his return, Lord Suffield asked him ' What sort of a party had you V ' Rather a mixed Jot, my lord,' was the answer. 'Really,, you cannot expect them all to be tailors,' was Suffield's comment."— "King Edward and His Court," by T. H. S. Escott.

In the British Museum, while others are admiring the bleak busts of Caesars or the placid Errors of Assyria, I always stray to a kindlier and more homely department. I am found worshipping the hairy and goggleeyed images from the Sandwich Islands, idols to whom I really feel a man might bow down. For the " beautiful gods of Greece are cruel; but one always feels that an ugly god might bo kind. If therefore I ever arrange my house on the artistic plan (which God forbid) it shall be upon a rugged Polynesian plan; it shall be uporfta goggle-eyed and hairy sort of plan.— K. Chesterton. Rousseau and Diderot held pretty fully tho theory of suggestiveness, the possibility of the musician's painting tilings which are inaudible and of the poet and painter depicting things -which are invisible. Art and literature under this theory passed more and more from the domain of action into the domain of revery. ,Art is reduced to suggestion and suggestion is defined as "attenuated hypnosis. v . But the deflecting of literature from either rational or dramatic purpose to suggestive word-painting is closely related'to primitiyism, to contempt of the reason and the things" that are above reason, joined with a desire to return to nature and so recover the unity of instinct. New York Sua*