Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . oney to the church, he that was the largest insuranceagainst fire he had ever heard of. On an-other occasion he was visiting a parvenu,who had a very t xclusive library of the newestbooks. Labouchere had taken down one ofthese volumes, which had never known thepaper-knife. The parvenu said: Ah, yousee, I am surrounded by my friends ! point-ing to the books. Yes, replied Labouchere-and I am glad to see that you havent cutthem yet. Once, after visiting the House ofLords, he was .isked what he thought of it, ascompared with the Co
Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . oney to the church, he that was the largest insuranceagainst fire he had ever heard of. On an-other occasion he was visiting a parvenu,who had a very t xclusive library of the newestbooks. Labouchere had taken down one ofthese volumes, which had never known thepaper-knife. The parvenu said: Ah, yousee, I am surrounded by my friends ! point-ing to the books. Yes, replied Labouchere-and I am glad to see that you havent cutthem yet. Once, after visiting the House ofLords, he was .isked what he thought of it, ascompared with the Commons. Well, wasthe reply, I might almost have imagined myself in heaven if it hadnt been for the presence of so many bishops. I-ormed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man, He blew no trumpet in the market-place; Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with iant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still. -Whittier-Daniel Neall. (xrkdaMf. The Chautauquan. With the fine illustrations and the high gradeof the articles together with the strong namesattached to them, the November number ofthis magazine makes a grand showing. JohnClark Ridpath continues his battles of theRevolution describing the one on Long Hale writes entertainingly of the SocialLife of the Colonists ; Prof. Little sets beforeus the Town Meeting as it was conducted inColonial times. Two articles deal with theNational Department of Agriculture, one de-tailing the experiments and research that havebeen made for the farmers good, the other ex-plaining the methods of discovering the Adul-teration of Foods. The subject of Pottery !nthe United States is explained, and the influ-ence of the pastor in society is dealt with byJohn Habberton. The story of the Nibelun-gen-Lied is completed in this number. Otherarticles are : Progress of the Colored Peo-ple in Washington, D. C.; The Romanticand Class
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