Other similar rumours are flying about in Fleet Street, but we give them with necessary reserve. One of them credits Mr. Lytton Strachey with the resolve to indite a panegyric of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Another ascribes to Lord Fisher the preparation of a treatise on The Evils of Egotism.


The Week's Great Thought.

"We are at a crisis, and a critical one at that."—Sir Archibald Salvidge in "The Sunday Chronicle."


In a Good Cause.

A special matinée is to be given by Mr. Charles Gulliver at the Paladium, on Friday, March 19th, for the National Children's Adoption Association. Mrs. Lloyd George, who makes a strong appeal for this good work, will receive applications for tickets at 10, Downing Street, S.W., and cheques should be made payable to her.

MANNERS AND MODES.