AMONG THE BOOKS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 12

AMONG THE BOOKS

If more people wouM run away when they are young, less' people would get into grooves when they become old."— "The Orley Tradition," by Ralph Straus.

Laughter never hurt a good cause yet, and it sorts things out' splendidly, you know. Shams will never stand chaff, so it's just as well to apply it to the things people are apt to take very seriously, to sco whether the gilt comes off or not.— "The Rebellion of Esther," by Margaret Legge.

There are certain moments in life that can never be repeated—one's first great sorrow—one's first great temptation—and one's first sight of a divinely beautiful created thing. The trouble with keeping a cat in the bag is that, however good it may bo for the cat it is seldom good for tho bag. —"Broken Music," by Phyllis Bottome.

It is a fact that in every man (not in every woman) there lives a lover; a lover who is called out in all his potentialities often by tho most insignificant littlo things—as long as they come at tho psychological moment; the glimpse o? a face at an unusual angle, an evanescent attitude, the enrve of a cheek often looked at before, perhaps, but then, at the moment, t charged with astonishing significance.' These are great mysteries, of course.—" Chance," by Joseph Conrad.

You can fall in love a hundred tiiros, but you can only marry—even with lucktwo or three time 6. , The devil in a man shows in his face, but the devil in a woman is under the skin. Woman is the great illusion. Don't make your hobby your business ; make your business your hobby. A bridegroom is always out of place at a wedding; it's the bride's day out. Marriage is woman's profession— man's. —"The Modern Chesterfield," by Max Rittenberg.

You've only got to look at her hats to see she's pushing. People have no use for a man that isn't alive—or a woman either if it comes to that! Laughter never hurt a good cause yet, and it sorts things out splendidly, you know. Shams will never stand chaff, 60 it's just as well to apply it to the thingspeople are apt to take very seriously, to see whether the gilt comes off or not. —"The Rebellion of Eether," by Margaret Legge.

Society demands that on the whole tho worldly view of life shall prevail in every school; that canons of conduct based on convention and propriety shall on the whole bo the guiding rule of life there as elsewhere; tho idea being that if they did not so prevail the school' would not be so good a preparation for afterlife, as it now is. . . Let us tako a rather Utopian case of a school in which a marvellously high level of purity and industry and Christian charity prevailed among tho boys, but which maintained this level by a strict system of confession, strong sacramental' teaching nod numerous chapel services— it likely that the school would be financially stable?—" Corner-stone of Education/' by Edward Lyttelton.