IN PASSING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)

IN PASSING.

There is no hatred like tho hatred of relatives. —Mr. Cairns.

Can anything bo imagined more nglv than a pair of trousers?— Dr. A. C. Jordan.

The average reader does not- understand a tenth of what ho reads.—Professor Gilbert, Murray. Wo want to inaugurate an entirely new era of European co-operation.—Mr. Ramsay Macdonald. Thero must be reformers, of course, but it. is well for a timo to bo suspicious of them.—Mr. Robert Lynd.

" I never answer the telephone, I always get someone to do it for me."'—Sir Henry Dickens, K.C. Tho present electoral system is not democracy, but tho dictatorship of tho croupier.—Mr. Lloyd George If there were no British Empire there would be no peace and no chanco of keeping peace.—The Earl of Meath. If any man can say that criticism has done for him a great deal of good, I am that man.—Mr. A. E. W. Mason

The popular opinion is that when a scientist snvs anything it. is so but when a philosopher or a theologian says anything it probably isn't.—Dean Inge. The only way to prevent tho circulation of bad literature is to promoto tho circulation of good literature. —Archbishop of Canterbury. I know of no more hopeful way of securing peace in trade and industry than that of profit-sharing and co-partnership. Why should not Labour have a voice in industry?— The Duke of Montroso.

A great mistake m tho Colonial education has boon the slavish adherence to English examinations in the Colonies. We want the African to bo a good African and not a sham Englishman.—Miss Sara Burstall.