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bility is mediate through the Church and the priesthood, and the Protestant believes that it is immediate, direct, and personal to the God in his own soul.

THE PASSING OF JEFFERSON BRICK

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Emerson thought it odd that Americans should have," not water on the brain, but a little gas there," and he quotes the remark of a foreigner that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech." The "tall talk," which has offended foreigners since the day when Dickens found Mr. Jefferson Brick a fountain of unconscious humor, long ago ceased either to impress or to amuse the mature American of to-day. Self-disparagement is a characteristic English habit which seems very like the reverse of the American habit of boasting, but it is not so much depreciation as a quiet assurance based on the consciousness of having played a great part in the world; a part so great as to make individual self-assertion not only unnecessary, but in very bad taste. It has been said that Cambridge University men act as if they owned the earth, while Oxford men act as if they had owned it so long that they had forgotten it.

The people of the Old World arrived " so long ago that they have ceased to celebrate the date. People at the top of the social order in England are, as a rule, free from social self-consciousness. A successful broker or tea merchant who has just been knighted is likely to be sensitive about the "Sir" which prefixes his name; but the duke whose title was familiar to the playgoers in Shakespeare's time is several centuries too old to be concerned about his position; and this is not inconsistent with the remark of a guide who was showing a visitor through the house of a great noble. He opened the door into a room in which an elderly man was breakfasting. The visitor drew back. “ It's nobody but the Duke," said the guide. From the guide's point of view the great nobleman was as secure in ancient dignity and historic interest as the stately house itself; his rank was a part of the ancient order of the realm.

In France one does not have to visit the Midi or read the delightful adventures of Tartarin to find the Latin note of expansive

ness; he has only to note the exuberant names of many of the hotels in Baedeker. Many a quiet and delightful inn does not hesitate to appropriate to itself the august name of the Universe, sometimes adding, with a little lack of humor, the name of the province in which it is situated. This may be

a device to make the visitor feel a little more at home; the word "Universe" has great impressiveness, but it does not suggest the coziness of the inn in which one takes his ease. As for the learned but obtuse Germans, the assertion of their colossal claims to the foremost position in the divine plan of the order of the world makes one wish that Heine were here to make merry again over certain peculiarities of the Fatherland.

It will be one of the functions of the Far East in the future to teach the West manners; but behind the courtesy of India and China there survives a superb composure born of thousands of years of experience of life and leadership in the world. The Oriental cannot forget that in dealing with the West he is dealing with the raw inexperience of extreme youth, and in his heart there is a certain proud disdain of the satisfaction of the West in its immense buildings, its wonderful mechanisms, its numberless devices for physical convenience and comfort. "The time has come to present India to the world," says an Indian writer in a recent interpretation of India-the contemned of the world but the beloved of the gods-" to the nations of the West struggling in the grip of their own matter-mad civilization." A few years ago a distinguished Japanese diplomatist who happened to be in Rome was the guest of half a dozen Englishmen at breakfast. It was a pleasantly informal occasion, but it gradually, and perhaps insensibly, took the form of an advisory council on Japanese affairs, and many suggestions were made by the hosts to the guest. The latter listened with Oriental courtesy until at the end he said, in a deferential tone: "Will you pardon me if I remind you that the present dynasty was reigning in Japan when Romulus and Remus built their mud walls around the little village of Rome ?"

The sense of superiority seems to be widely diffused, but age gives it a certain mellowness. Mr. Jefferson Brick is still active in many "lines" of business, but his vocabulary has faded and he has outgrown much of his immature exuberance.

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THE NEW EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA AND HIS FAMILY The Archduke Charles Francis, who became Emperor Charles VII on the death of Francis Joseph November 21, was born in 1887; in 1911 he married Princess Zita of Parma. They have three children, two of whom appear in the picture; the boy, standing, is the heir apparent

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From left to right: the Ladies Rachel, Dorothy, Anne, and Blanche Cavendish
THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA AND HIS FAMILY

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INDIAN PRINCESS AND JOLLY JEANNETTE, TWO RED KITTENS THAT ATTRACTED MUCH

ADMIRATION

PRIZE WINNERS IN THE CAT SHOW AT NEW YORK

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JACK LONDON: SAILOR, ADVENTURER, WAR CORRESPONDENT, AUTHOR Jack London died in California November 22. He was a voluminous author," The Call of the Wild" being probably his most popular book. See editorial comment

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