EPIGRAMS FROM NEW BOOKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 49

EPIGRAMS FROM NEW BOOKS.

Sweet Isabel of Naragoon: Lionel Laggard, Greenings. January, 1909. 6/-. In my opinion a man's not fit for marriage until he’s served an apprenticeship at the job—that is, until he has, egad, rung the changes on at least a dozen women’s hearts and found out what the business means. Women want to be studied like mathematics. That's rum—very. It beats the yarn of the shepherd dog who, after washing himself all over, lost his proper smell, and was set upon by his own dogs. Ladies do care as much, or almost as much, for the feathers as for the bird, don’t they ? Death absolves a man from mere faulta of nature; they belong to his hmuajiity, and when his humanity dies, they die with it. There will be no judgment day for them. If a man has not got. someone he loves near to him, be is alone even though he be in a crowd. I guess I know how to manage a woman. I just let her have her own way. She asks my advice then, and more often than not n lie takes it.