In short, it is said to do more for builders than agriculturists, and has been, let us hope, overlightly named The Freemasons' Refuge.

A genuine Londoner is the most incurious animal in nature. Divide your acquaintance into two parts; the one set will never have seen Westminster Abbey—the other will be equally ignorant of St. Paul's.

ON THE NARROW GAUGE. By P. B. Whitehouse. Nelson 30s. … In an introductory note Mr. Whitehouse disarms any criticism from narrow-gauge aficionados as immersed in the subject as himself by pointing out that his book has no pretensions to the status of a new narrow-gauge textbook; ….

Anthroposophy was having definite effects. I couldn't take any of this to heart. Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to dissociate itself.