19 DECEMBER 1908, page 11

Bores.

" T HE attempt to classify one's acquaintance is the common sport of the thinker," we read in an amusing little American book about bores—and people who are not bores, for whom......

Sleep And Sleepers.

N EARLY all proverbs are true,—no doubt because they are truisms. The existence of the same proverbs in nearly all nations of similar civilisation proves this. But we venture......