THE WAR-NOTE IN EXAMINATIONS.
Extract from Smith Minor's Scripture paper:—
"And when Jephthah saw his daughter coming to meet him he was very much upset. But he had to keep to his vow, so he gave her two months' leave and then he killed her."
Quoting a European statesman, saying the war would be won by the last 500,000 bushels of what, Mr. Hoover said."—New York Times.
We trust Mr. HOOVER will hurry up with his peroration.
"I feel that I might claim almost a special kinship with Baron Sonnino, because I believe his mother was a Welsh lady."
"Weekly Dispatch" Report of Premier's Speech.
"Baron Sonnino, by the way, who is of half-Scottish extraction, speaks English perfectly. How many of the master minds at our Foreign Office speak Italian perfectly?"
"Weekly Dispatch" Secret History of the Week.
But in fairness to the "master minds" it should be remembered that few of them have the advantage of a Scotch father and a Welsh mother.