Adsit omen!

Take its "capital" from Prussia—
You reduce the thing to Russia!


"Perversely enough, whilst Ora's husband was a commonplace though intelligent attorney, Ora was married to a Montana mine-owner."

Books of To-day.

This was very perverse of Ora. She might at least have waited till her first husband had ceased to be an attorney.


Gentlemen who are losing their employment owing to the War:—1. The German Colonial Secretary.


"Identifying battles with rivers is very confusing to the reader who is not well acquainted with the geography of a little-known part of Europe. It misleads thousands when the Aisne is mentioned, and it is even more misleading when the river Victula comes into the reckoning."

Birmingham Daily Post.

This is quite true.


Study of a veteran who has sent all his blankets to Kitchener's Army and never slept better in his life.