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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 8

t ;■,;• ~ .■:.:;; ~=—--;_ .... .=== , , ... , -,. i . t ■ Sir ComptsSL-RiokettV'.M.P.i poet,.novelist, preacher, politician . and/ man of .business,..has b£en giving his views on' airtheee'interestsof i, his life to ;The Snriday at Home." Sir'Jpseph, in qpite, of Ws literary taptes.does.npt regret' -'> having chosen a business career. "I .consider," .1 he'eays, "that a. bnsinise training is -the best tt corrective for van "Sdealiatjc ,; temperament. i Therei.is nothing eo bad fora man in this life ', as to breakfast, dine and snp off idealism;" •• After office hours,.however, Sir Joseph had AsD lighted tb tran;sform"himself into. "Manriqe L- Baxter,"-under which.nom do plumei he has d written-many, and.poems. -His. book, "The CluisttliaJ; is to Bq,V published, anonymously/created so : much interest thatvhe was forced^into the!open, and has since published 6 bqoke uiider : Ws- otsti 'name."'■ Hβ believes that e i he ihherited the!poetic side of his nature frein o Wβ mother, who. coming: of n h had probably (iiinfusioii: of CelHo b"i\iod. in „ li<ir'.'.yeins.A father's, family ,w '«iterdy , Noncprifprmiets. ; , in the' mission: J - : dfiiiictipn, ;imd nover Waits for bnrsta bi'i in- , *" epiration. ::As preadwr ,h«".tries to bo, lojiical 1- arid reasonable above aJl'.things, and.-liolds IX2'.' It intellectual/''lethargy .and: indefinite teachinc , a ' are ;tho-:great .dangersl of the modern pulpit. , ."If I have Vα weakness!; as a politician," Tie J>' adds, ''(and' : ,it: applies also!.to'other depart!i meritßvof'.mj'Kfe), it is that I : can see too r» plainly and too eympsthetically *oy opixsienfe (a. fisitiw.'l! '>'■'■ '■•!.■'';■■ 'V!-' '