... . The Scheme that Failed.-- I learn from a Bombay source that the falling through of the scheme to send a team of Indian cricketers over here next year was largely due to the opposition of the Parsees, who saw as time went on that the team would contain at the most four Parsees, and one of these, M. E. Pavri, only owing to his ability as a captain as his first-class cricketing days are over. ...

... - S and by. Captain Cuttle. By J. ASHBY'STERRY ST. PAUL'S tottering! The Royal Exchange in ruins! Guildhall shattered! It is a long while ago since I said in this column that the a ...

... L.C.C. ELECTION SKETCHES CLUB COMMENTS By MARMADUKE The Savages of Society is an alluring title; there are readers who may imagine at the outset that it will be difficult to justify the use of it. ...

... IN LIGHTER VON 8 Kr Striking Another Match. THE announcement of the new book about Deal Hole reminds one of his record of a brilliant repartee called forth by an epitaph upon a tomb in Virginia: A famous author residing in that state was bereaved of his wife and inscribed upon her gravestone, 'The light is gone from my life.' 1 lme not only modified his distress but kindly and wisely ...

... What with the Franco-British Exhibition, the Hungarian ditto, Raisuli's tribesmen, West African soldiers and savages from the recently closed Naval and Military Tournam ...

... . Q By A. A. Milne. The approach of the Derby reminds me that Chance owes me a good deal one way and another. Mathematically I have as much right to win a sweepstake as anybody else; actually I never get my rights. It is not that I draw blanks. To draw a blank is no worse than to give a cabman half-a-sovereign instead of six- pence; it simply means that you have thrown away a small sumol money ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... A MAN may be legally attached to one woman and yet sincerely attached to another. T t is sometimes more important to get credit from a good tailor than to get credit for a good deed. XAJ e find that we are not alone in think ing that it is dreadfully difficult to have a really good time with really good people. Just at the present time no one whose signature ends in heim or stein can be said ...

... Pictorial Politics,, The Budget. ALL congratulations to Mr. McKenna upon his second war Budget, which has been re ceived very favourably by the country in general notwithstand ing the few carping criticisms which arose at the debate in the House. Every financial pro posal which takes money out of somebody's pocket for the good of the State is bound to hit that particular class of person more ...

... 0 tt J(^) j o o At Last. THE Coalition Government is to be congratulated on producing a clear and precise measure, making military service obligatory on all men between the ages of 18 and 41. A constant flow of recruits will be obtained through the number of boys who daily reach the age of 18, when they immediately become liable; and the much-debated calling back of the time-expired men is ...

... ,, Mr. Balfour's Triumph. NOT only our Empire but the whole of the Allied nations owe a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Arthur Balfour, whose presenta tion of the agreement of the En tente Powers to the President of the United States last week was the clearest, most concise, and masterly statement of our case before the world that has up to the present time been given. Its effect upon thinking ...

... * The Mad Dog. THE old saying that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad is the most applicable comment pos sible upon the German challenge to the world which was issued last Thursday, prohibiting sea commerce and the travelling of neutrals within large and impor tant areas round the British Isles and France and Italy under penalty of death and destruction. It will be remem ...