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Here is a pleasant thought for the year's end or for the end of life. Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer. But Christmas is not only the mile-mark of another year, moving us to thoughts of self-examination: it is a season, from all its associations, whether domestic or religious, suggesting thoughts of joy.

But through all this his subconscious mind was not that of a despairer; on the contrary, there is something of a kind of lawless faith in thus parleying with such immense and immemorial brutalities.

Here is a pleasant thought for the year's end or for the end of life: Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer. But Christmas is not only the mile-mark of another year, moving us to thoughts of self-examination: it is a season, from all its associations, whether domestic or religious, suggesting thoughts of joy.

Our author is apt to remonstrate with his anthropological critics, and to assure them that he also has made studies in ethnology. 'I am not such a despairer of ethnology as some ethnologists would have me. He refers us to the assistance which he lent in bringing out Dr. Hahn's Tsuni-Goam , Mr. Gill's Myths and Songs from the South Pacific , and probably other examples could be added.

'Who knows? not always, said Bongrand. 'Life miscarries, like everything else. I listen to you, you know, but I'm a despairer. I am dying of sadness, and I feel that everything else is dying.

Business brought me up, and as soon as it's settled I pack." "Too quick despairer but I take it ye'll be bound just now for the Cheese. Right y'are; and I'll do meself the honour to lunch wid ye, at your expense." Everyone knows and loves the Bashaw, alias the O'Driscoll, that genial failure.

sets the key dangerously high; but it is kept by the magnificent address to the cuckoo, "Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go?" and the flower-piece that follows; by that other single masterpiece, "The coronals of that forgotten time;" by the more solemn splendour of the stanza beginning "And long the way appears which seemed so short;"

But through all this his sub-conscious mind was not that of a despairer; on the contrary, there is something of a kind of lawless faith in thus parleying with such immense and immemorial brutalities.

He must live for that work, and die for it to make real to the thinking world the infamies and the horrors of the capitalist regime. "Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on." "Do you remember how you used to tell me that?" she whispered. "Hoping always hoping!" "And always young!" he added.

But we shall have him in the sweet spring days, With whitening hedges and uncrumpling fern, And blue-bells trembling by the forest ways, And scent of hay new-mown " Or that description of the later season: "Too quick despairer! Wherefore wilt thou go?