SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY IN RECENT FICTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 71, 2 July 1910, Page 10

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY IN RECENT FICTION.

In America, to become- President of a | Trust, or of a 'Republic, it is necessary to teach, or at least to have taught, in: a Sunday school.—"Brothers All," by Maarten Maartens. Broadly speaking, profligates are better company than prigs. If every trifling vibration of personal feeling, every grain of salt in the dish of a man's friendship for a woman were to be made the foundation of faithlessness to his wife, where would matrimony be?—"lt Never can Happen Again," by W. De Morgan. Yearning after the beautiful and unattainable makes you so dirty and conceited. And why when you get a soul for Art, do you get a long way back with it and lose all your hairpins? The clergy really ought to marry, if only to help one to "get off" one's plainer nieces. . . . They are suitable as

relatives, though out of date to marry oneself. They "went out, matrimonially, about the end of the eighties, and have never real!' come in asain.—"Litany Lane,'' bv Airs, liaiiiiv !(■!'.*. The rare moments of poignant, (.Motion in the British household of the best class are marked by a more than ordinary calm, and a tendency in its members to retire to their several apartments.—"Trial by Marriage," by W. 8. Jackson.

Never grieve because a woman turns lier back on yon. She may be watching' you in the mirror. Never rejoice when she" turns her face toward may at ;T". I,OT r^WST 1 Bratiden..!-'.;* ' A.ma,! who -"\ xt< . ' t -iat any w< n.i,, j s not qv.uo like m: s r women is r.•<>.■;• very lr:r-h in love or very inexperience : —"They. Also Serve." by Christopher Stone. There i is nothing more 'certain than ■that tiie bare facts of life are misleading in the extreme .... And yet people who' are fond of describing themselves as practical persistently shrug their shiulders, and reiterate monotonously: "But, my dear fellow, these are the facts'!"—"Margarita's Sour," by InGraham Lovell. .