BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 October 1910, Page 48

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

All sorts of guesses have been as to what W. Shakespeare really mean® to teaeh in “The Merchant of Venice,’* but the chances seem to be that the Lavr Institute got hold of William and pros mised to take front seats if he would write and produce a play showing whaq a fool a man is who tries to be his own lawyer.—Sydney “Bulletin.” If our workers nao a nttle more leisure and our idlers a little less, our tastd in art might level up considerably.—“Eng* lish Review.” Everybody knows that we would sooner be accused of lacking a sense of honesty or decency than of lacking d| sense of humour. — "Westminster Gazette.” We incline to the opinion that if characters are to be judged -at all front the features, it is safest to keep to tha eyes and lips. They do form some killij of a guide.—“ Lady’s Pictorial.” Few people know how to shake hand? well; the general run of folks either givd a limp paw and allow it to be shaken, or else grasp yours in theirs and nearly dislocate it with their violence.“ World. 1 * With barefoot dancers out galore, I really feel That art has very little more To reveal, -—“Louisville Courier Journal.” A man seldom has to make up hi? mind entirely unaided. The head partner! can turn to junior partners for advice), the office boy can state his difficulties to the clerk. Each office is a barrack? where a little regiment is encamped. If) is not so with a woman shopping. Shd plays a lone hand. The fight is all against all.—“ Evening Standard.” The perfect old lady, as a matter of fact, is born, not made; she is the perfect young woman grown old.—* “Graphic.” When a girl wants to do a thing shq does it; when she doesn’t—she says heS mother won’t let her. —Hugh Leslie) Dobree. There are no perfectly honourable men, but every true man has one main point of honour and a few minor ones.—G. Bernard Shaw. The next generation of the coloured race will include as many Jack Johnson? as there are now George “Philadelphia Press.” The first kiss settles very little. If the fish can nibble the bait and still get away, how much more a man?—* “Puck,” New York. The majority of us will for many a long day be much happier on the top of St motor-'bus than at the steering wheel of an aeroplane.—“Daily News.”