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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 27 February 1891, Page 31

The most noted woman journalist in Paris is Mme. Severine better kntwn as Jacqueline or Renee. She is constantly waging a crusade against the oppression of the poor, and her articles, strongly tinged with Socialism as they are, have been the sensation of the day in Paris. Tne famous journalist began her first Precs work in 1884. She ia now on the staff Jof the Gil Bias, Qaulois, La Rappel, and Figaro, and has just been appointed dramatic critic of a new publication called Le Jour. She spends most of her waking hours at her writing desk, and turns out an immense amount of copy. Her only companions are four dogs, who ara said to be so well trained that they go to sleep as soon as they see a pea in the hand of their mistress. Mme. Severine lives in the fourth story of the Hotel de la France. Lord Wolseley fully shares the late General Gordon's belief in the latent possibilities of the Chinese. la a recent interview he said :—: — " The Ohinese are the coming nation. They will, I think, overrun the worß. These people — intelligent, active, ingenious ; so industrious that at twelve o'clock at night you can hear the hammer of the 6mith in the furge ; they have for the last 300 years bee i ruled by the simple method of having the more active, capable, and progressive heads shorn off by their T.irtir mlera ; that; ia a simple, literal fact. You have no idea of ibe massacres thu were c irrl^d on as part of the regular government of the country. When Commissioner Leh was asked whether it was truo that he hal, in three years, beheaded 60,000 men, he replied, ' Oh, surely many more than that 1' So long as this system prevail" Chineso progress is impossible. But theßf rude Tartars will not always be able to control the nation. Another Moses might chaDge it, or a Mohammed, or a Napoleon." — The Fireside Magazine. So many people thrown on one territory no more make a nation than so many blocks of stone thrown together in a pile make a temple, or co many types in pie a book, or so many threads in a tangle a fabric. Every nation has its own type of character, its own consciousness, ita own life. To constitute a nation there must be not only people and land and law, but laws that are s^lf-evolved, literature that is the expression of national life, language iibted to express that life, and therefore a life to be expressed. And it the nation is ever to count for anythiog among the nations, that life must be not merely animal, or social, or industrial ; it must and will be also religious. The nation has a brain, it thinks ; a heart, it feels ; a will, it resolves. This brain must perceive the higher moral truths, or the nation cannot comprehend its problems, much less its destiny. Thiß heart must feel the higher moral emotions, or it cannot solve its problems, much less achieve its destiny. — Lyman Abbott, lib Century Magazine. A German Emperor ot tbe Hohenzollern House, worthy of the name, is eminently a man of details. It is in the traditions. His present Majesty has just iesued a rescript reguiating the dress of Catholic chaplains serving with the army. In time of peace they shall wear, on solemn occusions. a narrow soutane with a scarf. On ordinary service a soutanette of black cloth, coming to precisely two handB 1 breadth lower than the knee, with straight collar, and one row of buttons, a white collar, black trousers, a " top " hat, and black glace kid gloves. The scarf above mentioned is bound to be fifteen centimetres wide, and must f.ill with a double fold on the left side, as far as the knee. In time of war, the scan is to be white with the red cross, and to be worn on the right arm. For ridiug the gloves must be of buckskin. On the march and in action the violet siole ia to be added. Sir Johu Pope Ilennessy does not intend to resign his membership of the Carlton Club. He has avoided all unute -ssary clashes with the feelings of bis fellow-members ; and, of course, he refrained from dating, aa we think Sir Robert Peel baldly did date, a Home Rule address to his constituents ftom the head-quarters of Toryism. The Carlton is very slow ia matters of expulsion, wherein it has proved itself wiser than the Retocm. It remains to be seen how loug tbe tolerance extended for years to Mr. G'adatone wul be csded to a member sitting on the Irish benches.