Today's Stichomancy for Clive Barker

past. A man, for instance, called William Shakespeare could never dare to write plays. He is thrown into too humbling an apposition with the author of HAMLET. Its own name coming after is such an anti-climax. 'The plays of William Shakespeare'? says the reader - 'O no! The plays of William Shakespeare Cockerill,' and he throws the book aside. In wise pursuance of such views, Mr. John Milton Hengler, who not long since delighted us in this favoured town, has never attempted to write an epic, but has chosen a new path, and has excelled upon the tight-rope. A marked example of triumph over this is the case of Mr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

you guess that he wore glasses, anyhow?" to the amateur sleuth.

That gentleman cleared his throat. "There were two reasons," he said, "for suspecting it. When you see a man with the lines of his face drooping, a healthy individual with a pensive eye, - suspect astigmatism. Besides, this gentleman has a pronounced line across the bridge of his nose and a mark on his ear from the chain."

After this remarkable exhibition of the theoretical as combined with the practical, he sank into a seat near-by, and still holding the chain, sat with closed eyes and pursed lips. It was evident to all the car that the solution of the mystery was a question of moments. Once he bent forward eagerly and putting the chain on the window-sill,

The Man in Lower Ten

Genesis 5: 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;

Genesis 5: 2 male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5: 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.

Genesis 5: 4 And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5: 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Genesis 5: 6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.

Genesis 5: 7 And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5: 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

Genesis 5: 9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.

Genesis 5: 10 And Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 5: 11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.

The Tanach

the unhappy women who dance for gold--sees looming before him, as he lisps out his deep disapproval of increased knowledge and the freedom of obtaining the means of subsistence in intellectual fields by woman, and expresses his vast preference for the uncultured ballet-girl over all types of cultured and productive labouring womenhood in the universe. A subtle and profound instinct warns him, that with the increased intelligence and economic freedom of woman, he, and such as he, might ultimately be left sexually companionless; the undesirable, the residuary, male old-maids of the human race.

On the other hand, there is undoubtedly a certain body of females who would lose, or imagine they would lose, heavily by the advance of woman as a