26 MARCH 1910, page 9

The Wisdom Of Nonsense.

W ELL-TIMED nonsense is the divinest sense. In the current number of the Cornhill Magazine Canon Selwyn publishes some of the later letters of Edward Lear, and suggests that as......

Taciturnity And Talk.

S OME men lack the human instinct to talk. They volun- teer nothing. Their silence is tempered only by replies. They never speak until some one else has thought. Very often......

Socialists And The Poor Law.

O NE of the favourite poses of the Socialist is to pretend that he alone among all members of the community is inspired by high ideals, and that everybody who does not embrace......