20 OCTOBER 1917, page 9

Lost Interests.

M EN and women like to live among those whose interests are the same as their own. By "interests" we do not, of course, mean material interests, but favourite preoccupations.......

An Eremite Of To-day.

T HE recluse instinct survives in England, perhaps, better than in other countries these rushing centuries. " Every Englishman is an island," wrote Emerson sagely, in reference......