AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15131, 23 October 1912, Page 10

AMONG THE BOOKS.

To create a little flower is the,labour of■ ages.—William Blake. *, ; ? ' - A pessimist is a man who was once an optimist.— V. Mentz. ' : Ignorant men always ' display /a great deal of knowledge.—Alfred Stevens. The moment an artist thinks of money 7 I he loses the sentiment of , the . beautiful— Denis Diderot./ ; " ../-.'•./ '•.'/.'' " - .'-———. '■'..- * I % Peace at any ,' ; price does, appeal ,to '% 'woman./ She wants' it at bargain rates. —"William..Hope.' , / / / .-,.'"; . The golden \ age," which a blind tradition 'has" hitherto placed in the past, is before Saint-Simon."'• ; V ,)i '■■<■ There is something better than, to have /portraits and medalsit is, have none.— Barbey D'Aurevilly. ". ;, ~ :J_; .% The effect of every action is measured' by the depth of the, sentiment from which .it proceeds.—Emerson. :/ A"real diplomat is a man who can stretch ! bands.. across the sea without .putting his /foot in Senator Root. • . ~, l' - Enthusiasm is what enables a man to. be perfectly sure 'of a lot of tilings he is ; mis-/ taken about. —Ashley Sterno. ■ */.-• . :,Success is like skating. .' ;; You learn ; .to acquire it =: just by getting up every time, you fall down.—David Graham Phillips. . The average woman can do more with I a hairpin than tho average man can with • I a whole box of-tools.—F. Harris Deans. 4

Here, in. this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now staiidest, hero or nowhere is thy ideal: work it out therefrom ; and working, believe, live, be free.—Thomas Carlylo.; ■ Beautiful things, ore put into the.world to bo made the best of, and to what better use can a pretty young woman be put than to flirt with her? Yon can no more, describe • the refined delights of flirtation than you can the delicate beauty of a butterfly's wing Flirtation is an art; love-making h merely a crude impulse.— "Oh! My Uncle," by W. Teignmoutb Shore. John Coleridge, the' father' of the most famous of the Coleridgc-s, was exceedingly absent-minded. Once, during a short journey on some professional business, his good wife in her care and watchfulness had packed a'few things in a small trunk. She gave them in charge of her husband with strong injunctions that he was to put on a clean shirt every day. On his return home his wife went to search for his linen, when, to her dismay, it was not in tho trunk. A closer search, however, discovered .that her husband had strictly obeyed her instructions and had put on daily a clean shirt, but had forgotten to remove the one underneath."The Romance of tho Men of Devon," by Francis Gribble.

A terrible affliction from which we suffer in China is the washman. He charges by the piece, irrespective of the description of the garment. Consequently, if he tears your shirt into pieces you pay for four, and lose three other things, thus striking a balance, He also hires your, clothes out to natives by arrangement with; your boy. His methods of washing, are peculiar, as instance his mode of procedure" in washing eocks, which.he does by putting four or five pairs on his feet at one time, and going-. for. walk- .the creeki— "Letters From China," by Jay Denbyv v