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Mr. Rudyard Kipling is still writing poetry. His latest effort is a poem for the Boy Scouts. Tho last;verso is as follows;—,. . / /. Look out when your temper goes •'■'• At the end of a-losing game; ■ ''. And your boots aro too tight for your toes,. .And you answer and nrguo and blame. It's tho hardest part of tho'law, • But it has to be lenmt by the Scout— For whining and shirking and "jaw"(Chorus) All patrols look out! ~The opening is.less effective:—. •. ; . Those are our regulations— . > ...' .There's just one'law for tho Scout, ; And the first and the .last, and tho present and the past, .-.' ,-' And the future and,the.perfect is "Lootout!"

/A/London journal has. been pointing out that considering Dr. Johnson's great position in the history of, literature, the comparatively small place - which ho occupies in tho catalogue of the ;reading-room of the British' Museum is somewhat remarkable. ~ The entries under his name number 546, as compared with Oliver Goldsmith's 1 729, while out of his other contemporaries. Burke and Garrick, whose literacy output,' of course,: was much smaller, almost rival him'with &I and .370 respectively. In tho Museum library there are more than sixty copies, complete or abridged, of Dr. Johnson's dictionary, and .fifty of, his "Lives of the Poets." : The writings about Dr. Johnson are extraordinarily miscellaneous, ranging from a guide to his birthplace to a tract on the subject of/his death.'