AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15155, 20 November 1912, Page 10

AMONG THE BOOKS.

A man* never knows when he is well off till afterwards.— Sterne.

It is often because a man gets straitened that he goes crooked.—Norman Hapgood.

A woman's heart is like the moon. It changes continually, but it always has a man in it.—Chinese Proverb.

A man is generally charming to a woman, they say, as long as she flatters him and pretends to defer to his opinions in everything, while carefully concealing her own.—" Unconventional Talks with a Modern D.D.," by Isobel Denbv.

No one can astonish a man so completely as his own wife.

In the education life gives us we are all pupils; lifo will keep us at school till in death we go up for our examination.

It is always a man who holds the key of a woman's life.— In tho World of Bewilderment," by John Travers.

Women often conquer by intuition, but never by reason. There is nothing more proud than a woman who weeps. Nothing kills an idea sooner than ready acceptance—"Esau and tho Beacon," Five Plays by Kenneth Weeks.

It cannot justly be said that tho modem increase of matrimonial alliances between the aristocracy and the stage is altogether a bad thing, for many actresses, besides being girls possessed of a good deal_ of senses quality scarcely conspicuous in the majority of young men who take their wives from the musical comedy stage are also healthy young women, like to produce fine offspring to their lords.— My Own Times," by Lady Dorothy Nevill.

Truly, tho China campaign of 1860 was the most enjoyable picnic in which I have ever taken part. When wo landed I saw with great pleasure that the whole coast was covered with oysters—real natives. I at once sent back a message Co the chief engineer, asking him to send me a bucket and an ovster-knife. Later on I got a hammer and a chisel, and next morning the beach was a sight with 8000 men eating oysters.—" China Jim," by Major-General J. T. Harris.

_ A European foreman of a pang of natives doing pick and shovel work possessed, like Commodore Good, R.N., a class eve. This he used to place on a rock in full view of the natives, and then retire to sleep in a shadv spot. For some days this device kept them hard at work; but eventually an ingenious native hit on the idea of covering up the eye with a hat after which the others all knocked off work until shortly before the foreman returned from his nap.—" In Central Africa," by J. M. Mowbray.

My wife, my do* (whoso name is _ Snanny'), *nd mvself were once stayine in rooms at Brighton. The proprietress of the house in which we were staving had two little firls of her own whom the one servm7-mrnd of the establishment called bv their christian names. When my own small daughter was coming down to visit ns. the proprietress impressed upon the sorvinrr-mnid that she must riot take a similar liberty with my daucrhfor. but must h« reticular to address the child as " Miss Bervl."

The importance of remembering the social pulf which was supposed to vawn between a person who lets second-rate lodeincrs and a person who writes fourthrate books, and the necessity for addressinc even the least of our family with respect, was impressed so oft«n 'and so emphnticllv upon the poor girl that she astonished and amused us by-putting her head in -it the door, one da v. and inquiring : " Please, m'm, mav Master Shanny enrnn downstairs to the kitchen to have a bone?"—"Tho. Bow-wow'.Book," by Coulson Eernahanic <-n ■ - - ■