Robinson. "It's about time you chaps started to do something. Hard work never killed anybody."
Mendicant. "You are mistaken, Sir. I lost three wives through it."
WIZARDS: KLINGSOR AND ANOTHER.
"Another Parsifal ought to be written from the angle of Klingsor, who was an enlightened Arabian, physician, scientist and probably Aristotelian.... The Knights, and Wagner with them, call him a wizard, which was a crude mediæval way of 'slanging' any man who preferred knowledge to superstition."
This remarkable utterance by the musical critic of The Daily Mail in the issue of February 25th has created a sensation in the political world fully equal to that caused by the announcement of Mr. Asquith's return for Paisley. Scientific and artistic circles have also been deeply moved.
Sir Philip Sassoon, Mr. Lloyd George's new secretary, interviewed by our representative, said that the tribute to his chief was all the more welcome considering its source. His only criticism was that, instead of calling the charge of wizardry a "crude mediæval" mode of invective, he should prefer to style it an ultra-modern application of the art of obloquy.