19 JUNE 1909, page 11

Meeting Again.

T O meet again with our friends after an interval of years may well be the greatest of all joys, but to meet again with our friendly acquaintance from whom we have been long......

"splendid In Ashes."

F RENCHMEN customarily show more respect than Englishmen for funerals passing iu the streets. They take off their hats almost invariably ; and the ritual of their • creed seems......