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he Woodman seized his axe, and with one stroke cut the Serpent in two. Ah, said he,No gratitude from the wicked. The Bald Man and the Fly There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but acks palm came on his head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: You will only injure yourself if you take

m dare askand then answer the question we clones avoid like the plague, he doesso with relentless, laser-like precision. Read his book. Take your seatat the double-headed microscope and let Sam guide you through thedissection. Like a brain surgeon operating on himself, Sam explores andexposes the alien among us, hoping beyond hope for a respectable tumourbut finding instead each and every cell teaming with the same resistantvirus. The operation is long and tedious, and at times frightening

rnold upon the glorious Lays, where he calls out is this poetry? after quoting--And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the Temples of his Gods? In trying to show that Macaulay had not the poetic sense he was really showing that he himself had not the dramatic sense. The baldness of the idea and of the language had evidently offended him. But this is exactly where the true merit lies. Macaulay is giving the rough, blunt words with which a

y, to that persecution, as so many judgments of God to punish so heinous an offense, and exhorting a repeal of those uncharitable laws. The whole appeared to me as written with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom. The six concluding lines I remember, though I have forgotten the two first of the stanza; but the purport of them was, that his censures proceeded from good-will, and, therefore, he would be known to be the author.Because to be a libeller (says he) I hate it with my

uld this well have been otherwise. Cast in a mould peculiar to the finest physical examples of those Englishmen in whom the Saxon strain would seem not at all to partake of any Norman or other admixture, he showed in face that humane look of reposeful good nature which the Greek sculptor in some instances gave to his heroic strong man, Hercules. But this again was subtly modified by another and pervasive quality. The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril,

nder FUNCTIONS, asDINNERS, INVITATIONS, etc.APPLES should be pared, cut into small pieces, andeaten with finders or forks. ARCHBISHOP OF ANGLICAN CHURCH--HOW ADDRESSED.An official letter begins: My Lord Archbishop,may it please your Grace, and ends:I remain, My Lord Archbishop, your Grace'smost obedient servant. A social letter begins: My dear LordArchbishop, and ends: I have the honor to remain,my dear Lord Archbishop. The address on the envelop is: The MostReverend, His Grace the Archbishop