conducting a correspondence with Sir SIDNEY LEE and Professor GOLLANCZ
on the esoteric significance of _Labour's Love's Lost_.

Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL is a voracious novel-reader of catholic tastes.
Just now he is revelling in _Called Back_ and _The House on the Marsh_,
which are being read aloud to him by his private secretary.

Mr. ARTHUR PONSONBY, M.P., the Democratic Controller, is a confirmed
fruitarian, and attributes his robust health to a diet of Morella
cherries and Carlsbad plums, washed down with Stockholm tar-water.

Mr. JOHN BURNS, who happily describes himself as "a dormant volcano" has
of late found an agreeable stimulant in the performance of solos on the
muted first violin.

Lastly, Mr. LEO MAXSE keeps himself keyed up to concert pitch by coining
new nicknames for Lord HALDANE. The list already extends to four
figures.

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"Khartum has the reputation of being a very hot place this time
of year. But last June must have been fairly damp if the
meteorological statistics published by the 'Sudan Times' are
correct. The rainfall during this month amounted to no less than
33.6 kilometres. No wonder a man I know there wrote to say the
other day that sometimes the rain is too heavy for him to go on
sleeping on the roof, and this in spite of a waterproof sheet. A
life-belt would probably be more useful."--_Egyptian Mail_.