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tion--sofar as their qualifications warrant--into lines of work which then offerthe greatest opportunity. Only by such a system will each worker receivethe greatest income possible for himself, and also the greatest benefitspossible from the labors of all, thus continually increasing productionand yet avoiding overproduction in any single line. That the mainfeatures of the system suggested by Mr. Babson are being made the basis ofthe vocational movement is one of the most hopeful signs of the

o recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great

down and wrote out a prescription,and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.I did not open it. I took it to the nearest chemist's, and handed it in.The man read it, and then handed it back. He said he didn't keep it. I said: You are a chemist? He said: I am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotelcombined, I might be able to oblige you. Being only a chemist hampersme. I read the prescription. It ran: 1 lb. beefsteak, with1 pt. bitter beerevery 6

. Nor have I been disappointed; in this and in all other perplexing cases I have invariably found that our knowledge, imperfect though it be, of variation under domestication, afforded the best and safest clue. I may venture to express my conviction of the high value of such studies, although they have been very commonly neglected by naturalists.From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this Abstract to Variation under Domestication. We shall thus see that a large amount of

ll times. A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women. Everybody sniffed when they came to that part. Jo wasn't

easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.I should like to meet him, I said. If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How could I meet this friend of yours? He is sure to be at the laboratory, returned my companion. He either avoids the place for weeks, or else he