Laconisms.

Preface to War.—You can always hear a war coming. Listen for the clashing of symbols.

Liberty.—Liberty is a woman. Never take her favours for granted. Be forever jealous or you will lose her.

Hitler on his Storm troopers.—"They are Jesus' Brown Army,"

Lecture "meat."—The cocky is the backbone of the country, and the funny bone and the wish bone also. . . . men at an evening of the Governor General's are obliged to wear stiff shirt fronts and other doo dahs on such occasions—they hate it—they are miserable—as though they were at an undertaker's picnic.

—V.E.