and suggested that they were but varying forms of the same rampant selfishness now causing so much misery and distress in the world.

Do you concur in such a view? If not, what, in your opinion, would be the difference between the three forms of national aspiration above referred to? T. H. HOOD.

[Translate the phrase "Deutschland über Alles" into the terms of personal relationship. If our correspondent said, "My family above all others," he would be rightly condemned.

Likewise, if he said, "I will work for myself alone," he would be guilty of selfishness and unsocial practice. But suppose he says, "I will make my family my first concern," then he would merely be acting in accordance with the most correct ethical principle.

As Mr. Roosevelt once pointed out, the flabby internationalist who says, "I love all countries as well as I do my own," is just like the man who says, "I love other men's wives as much as my own." "America first" does not mean a disregard for others.-THE EDITORS.]

ADJECTIVES AND STYLE [From the Gossip Shop of the "Bookman"]

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E abstruse question which Boswell once upon a time used as conversational bait for Dr. Johnson, "How many angels could dance on the point of a needle?" is a small matter compared with the question with which William Bayard Hale wrestles in "The Story of a Style:" How many adjectives does Woodrow Wilson use? Mr. Hale has combed the centuries for data, and his statistics rival in ingenuity and novelty those problems propounded and solved in the old "Penny Magazine" of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, such as: "How many obelisks the size of Cleopatra's Needle would need be balanced one upon the other to reach to the top of the dome of St. Paul's?" Or, "How many papers of pins would you have to buy if you wanted to lay a train of them from London to Edinburgh?" For the accommodation of all ingenious persons, we quote Mr. Hale's conclusions, which show the present Patersque incumbent of the White House to be far from the line of "normalcy," adjectively speaking:

In Wilson the ratio is 1 pure verb to 30 adjectives; with Ruskin the ratio is 16 to 7; Carlyle 12 to 4; Macaulay 11 to 3; Poe 12 to 5; Shakespeare 14 to 9; Scott 11 to 8, Dickens 16 to 6; Hardy 14 to 1; Shaw 14 to 4; Clemens 13 to 3; Hewlett 12 to 3; Gibbon 9 to 8; Bazin 18 to 3: Sienkiewicz 11 to 1; Stendhai 15 to 2; Maeterlinck 10 to none; Rousseau 14 to 6; Amiel 9 to 7.

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form of a man on the railroad tracks." So reads part of the description of a gold medal presented by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to an employee who tried to save the life of a fellowemployee by giving his blood in a transfusion operation. The angel's name in real life was Joseph Sweeney; the man on the tracks was Thomas J. Thornton, who had both legs crushed in an accident. Sweeney asked that his part in trying to save Thornton be kept secret, but the facts leaked out. The medal was presented to him by the company's vice-president in the presence of many officials of the road.

"Copperfield House," No. 13 Johnson Street, London, is one of the few remaining houses of the several in which Charles Dickens lived as a boy. "When Dickens's father, John Dickens, was released from the unsavory Marshalsea Prison," says the London "Sphere," he took the boy from lodgings to live at this house. "Charles was at that time working at the blacking factory at Hungerford Stairs and despite his intense loathing of his soul-destroying work, he felt much happier after his reunion with his parents." The house is now to be used as a children's library.

The Chinese hen seems to be laying superfluous eggs. According to "Shipping," a cargo of frozen eggs, recently sent from Hankow, China, to New York, weighed 6,200 tons, representing the enormous number of 11,573,333 dozen eggs.

"I'll ring for Nora to bring a fresh pitcher of water," said the professor's wife, as reported in a Western paper. "You doubtless mean a pitcher of fresh water," corrected her husband. Ten minutes later the professor said: "That picture would show to better advantage if you were to hang it over the clock." "You doubtless mean above the clock," his wife retorted quietly; "if we were to hang it over the clock we couldn't tell the time."

Fully half of the population of Buenos Aires is foreign-born, according to Harry Franck, "and it is an even bet on any man of this half," he says, "that he came from Italy." There is also a small colony of aristocratic Irish, Mr. Franck reports, who pronounce their names "Kel-yee," "O-bree-en," etc. It is a comparatively ordinary experience in Buenos Aires, the author adds, to come across business men with English or Irish names who speak only Spanish.

From the voluntary allotment slips of our soldiers a subscriber copies these peculiar names, which seem to have been signed in dead earnest:

Victor Castoria Hicks, Hilarius Drees, Dewey Lane, June Cloud, Anthony Butinski, Legal Tender Fairchild, Cash Double, Lordly Lucas, Leonard Peachie Lemon, Narry Chance, Broadus Long;

and finally, "to boost your colum.n, "Philip Bytheway."

As an example of "perplexed English" a reader contributes this:

A German woman who had resided in this country thirty-five years but had not become "emancipated" either as to politics or as to using the English language freely, said apropos of the suffrage amendment movement, "Don't them suffrages are done yet?"

A story that might be taken to heart by the factions that are making Ireland miserable is told in Frederick Lynch's "Recollections of Andrew Carnegie." When the circus came to town, Mr. Carnegie said, Pat had no money for a ticket. He offered his services to the circus manager for the price of admission. The manager said, "Pat, the lion died last night, and we saved his pelt. If you'll crawl into that till the show opens, you can see everything." Pat got into the pelt and was led to the cage. As he was getting in he saw a huge Bengal tiger glowering at him from the farther end of the cage. "I'll not go into the cage with thot turrible baste," he shouted. Whereupon the "tiger" lifted up its head and said, "Come right in, Pat; I'm an Irishman too."

A file of "La Libre Belgique," the Belgian bulletin of patriotic propaganda which was published during the war in spite of the severest restrictive measures on the part of the German invaders, was recently sold in New York City for $1,000. In future years when the full story of the means by which it was printed and circulated is made public, a set of "La Libre Belgique" will no doubt become one of the rarest prizes of collectors of memorabilia of the Great War.

Sir Herbert Tree, the English actor, was a maker of pungent phrases. Some of them, as quoted in a recently published book of "Memories," follow:

"A committee should consist of three men-two of whom are absent."

"He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him."

"If we don't take ourselves seriously, who will?

An example of American terseness: "A man went into a store in Chicago. 'I want some powder,' he said. 'Face, gun, or bug?' asked the young lady."

In an article by Senator F. M. Davenport in the November 3 issue of The Outlook, entitled "Treating Men White in Akron Town," Mr. Davenport stated

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