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The make-up was over. Scattered about the office in various states of exhaustion and undress were the board. The Saint-bless him! I've come to reverence him,-had fled to talk with the Bachelor, when he heard the frequent profanity of the make-up contest. Red was growling, "Well, we'll have to let that go, but I'll be hanged if I like that Sophomore's shoes."

"I tell you he's all right," insisted Rollo, gently. "I like his cigarettes, and his stuff isn't half bad."

Handsome Dan broke in, kicking up his mighty limbs gracefully. Quotha, "Do you know; the Yale public is the least read in existence.”

The Saint returned, shooing out the Owl, which had butted in, and suggested mildly, "Why can't you get them to make out some lists of books; that they may find out just how little most of them have read. Now take yourselves; let me ask you some questions, as a suggestion of a shorter literary catechism which you ought to make out for yourselves and your friends.

"How much do you know of the English novel? Have you ever read more than one book by Hardy, or Meredith, or James, or Howells, or Austen, or Bronté? How much of Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Rossetti, Swinburne, Clough, have you read voluntarily? Did you ever shove your Golden Treasury into your pocket, and go down to Lighthouse Point, where you can spout it in peace? I don't believe I ever appreciated Shelley, till I heard a Keith Rickman sonorously quoting "The Cloud," before a fireplace, at three o'clock in the morning; one of those times when our silence had a Wagnerian thunder of unspoken thoughts.

"How much do you know by actual reading of those mighty forces in literature which are accompanying the recent movements in economic thought, and the building up of that new religion, whose trinity is cosmic emotion, beauty-worship, and public service? Have you read anything of Ibsen's save "Ghosts"; anything of the Russian quaternity, Tolstoi, Pushkin, Tourgenieff, Gogol; what of the French Masters, Flaubert, Zola, and the rest? Do you read your Huneker regularly? That New York magician will help you to realize how very little you know of literature, art, music. He certainly does make me humbly flagellate myself.

"You are thoroughly up on the Hippodrome; know in what Fay Templeton is frisking; but what do you know of Duse and Tree? Now honestly, my children, don't you know more of the masterpieces of George Ade than of Pinero, Jones, Shaw, D'Annunzio, Sudermann? There is a hundred of other names which I might give to prick your consciences-for example, Yeats, George Moore, Nietzsche, Haeckel, Huxley, Vaughan Moody, Marx, Gorky, Blake, Pater. But make out your own list, and be thankful that this is such a divine, much-lettered world."

From the couch where the Spaniel was sleeping came the drowsy sound of the Lucretius which he was quoting in his dreams. And outside, amid the weary rain-wind which tramps the world, the Yellow Dog was howling dismally. The Wolf-hound protested, "Hang reading. The 'Saturday Evening Post' is enough culture," and we set out for home.

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Was winsome, young, and fair;

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Why should she throw away the life

She might have saved with one small sin,
Which penance would repair?

Sir Galahad was pure and true,

He turned away his head

From pretty faces sweet with smiles;

He feared them for their carnal wiles.
What good does living single do

Now the poor devil's dead?

H. S. L.

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