18 DECEMBER 1909, page 9

Esin-hw.a.

T O most people the word merely conveys something quite unpronounceable, but hearing it I have a vision of a walled city of some twenty-five thousand inhabitants, set in a......

" G Ra....0e, Sir, Is A Fruit Of Great Cultivation :

it is not found among gross people." If it were not that Johnson's paradoxes have often more behind them than our axioms, one would be disposed to quote Wordsworth's "Simon Lee"......