From a list of Canon Masterman's lectures on "The War and the Smaller Nations of Europe":—
"April 2nd (possibly), 'The Reconstruction of Europe.'"—Western Morning News.
We commend the lecturer's caution, but hope it will prove to have been superfluous.
This is not a scene from a revue—it is hardly dull enough for that—but an everyday performance on the platform of any railway station during the recent cold spell.
A FORWARD MINX.
The garden wall was high, yet not so high but that any young lady bent on attracting the notice of her neighbours could look over it. Miss Dot indeed regarded an outside flight of steps which led to an upper storey as an appointed amelioration to the hours which she was expected to spend in the garden, for it was an easy scramble from the stairs to the top of the wall, whence she could survey the world. To be sure the wall was narrow as well as high, but a timorous gait shows off a pretty figure, and slight nervousness adds a pathetic expression to a pretty face; to both of which advantages Dot was not, it is to be believed, altogether indifferent when khaki coats dwelt the other side of that wall.