AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 11

AMONG THE BOOKS.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. —Hobbes. ■ A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly* • his worst enemy .—-Sir W. Temple. The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be .deemed a scholar. —Confucius. - ; ■' ;" : -'. : ' '' V •* ' ' i Speaking much is a.sign of vanity; for , he that is lavish in.words is ft niggard in , deed.—Sir W. Raleigh. > ' Every thought which genins and piety 1 throw'into the world alters the world.- 1 - s Emerson. Alexander received more bravery of j ' mind by the pattern of Achilles, than, by ' hearing" the definition of fortitude. »si_r Philip Sidney. - Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms, and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are nO longer able to uphold.—Burke. ' When Percival Charles Grandstand won the Daily-. Mail prize of £50,000 for making standard bread out of sweet peas while crossing the Channel in an aeroplane, a reporter said with some confidence that this was but the fitting crown to a career of exceptional brilliance. He was correct. I wrote a. patriotic article on the subject myself, entitled "Where We Excel in Germany," and sent it to the Spectator. The Spectator gent the article back to me again. I have still got it, and you can have it if you like. On the other hand, if you don't, you needn't.—The opening sentence of Barry Pain's story in "Printers' Pie." Whistler once bought some tapestries of a Frenchman named Barthe, who, not. being able to get his account settled, called one evening for the money. He was told that Whistler was not in; but there was a-cab waiting at .the door, a|id he could hear his debtor's voice; "so he pushed past the maid and, as he afterwards related, "Upstairs I fihd-liim, before a little picture, painting, and behind him ze bruzzers Greaves holding candles. And Vistlaire, he say:"You ze very m&n I vant; hold a candle!" And I holds candle. And Vistlaire, ho paint and W paint, and zen he take ze n'ieture and he go downstairs, and he get in ze.cab and he drive off, and we hold ze candle and I see him no more."—"Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London," by A St •John Adcock,, «