"Baroness Orczy has laid the world under a fresh debt of
gratitude. 7/- net."--"_Times" Literary Supplement_.
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"The question one could naturally put is, 'Has the
millennium arrived, when the lion and the lamb shall lay
together?'"--_Monthly Paper_.
Let's hope, at all events, that the produce won't be a cockatrice's
egg.
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"This is the anniversary of the death of Robert Southey in 1843.
Perhaps his most celebrated poem is the delightful 'Ode to a
Skylark,' the beginning of which 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit,' is
known to every school child."--_New York Evening Journal_.
It seems that Truth still stands in need of propaganda in America.
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[Illustration: _Amateur Photographer (on a conducted tour in
France)._"CHARMING SPOT; BUT RATHER DISAPPOINTING. I _QUITE_ HOPED IT
WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL SMASHED UP."]
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