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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2232, 23 April 1881, Page 4

Professor Gold win Smith has written a reviow of Lord Beaoonsfield's " Endymion," which contains this passage : —" This writer's ideal of life is always the same—gorgeous palaces, gilded saloons, upholstery of ravishing splendour, gold and silver plate, diamonds, pearls, and rubies by the peck, silks, satins, and velvets by the bale and of fabulous cost, footmen innumerable, with powdered heads and the largeat canes, horses and equipages as fine as those in any circus, money without limit, and everything regardless of expense. It is the day-dream of Houndsditch." Mrs Eingsfort, an English lady who recently took her degree at tho Paris faoulty of medicine, chose as the subject of her these de doctorat "Vegetarianism." The subject of vegetable alimentation is at present attracting oonaiderable attention in French medical circles. France has just invonted a new occupation. A man goes about the streets of Paris bearing a small tray, a pack of oards, a set of dominoes and a dice box. With this stock-in-trade the man, who styles himself " L'Amateur," goes to the houses of invalids or idle persons, sad for a small fee plays games with them.