When the new MINISTER FOR EDUCATION deposited upon the Table a vast packet of manuscript, and craved the indulgence of the House if he exceeded the usual limits of a maiden speech, I thought of the days when the headline, "The Duke of Devonshire on Technical Education," used to strike on my fevered spirit with a touch of infinite prose. Mr. FISHER began in rather professorial style, but he soon revealed a glowing enthusiasm for his subject which thawed the House. His ambition is to transform the teachers in our elementary schools from ill-paid drudges into members of a liberal and liberally remunerated profession. Our record in the War has shown that, as a Naval Officer wrote to him, "there is something in your d----d Board School education after all." * * * * * "The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Miss ---- as demonsoille d'honneur."--_Hawkes Bay Herald_ (_New Zealand_). We fear this marriage was not made in heaven. * * * * * [Illustration: _Polite Foreigner._ "IS ZAT YOUR BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH THAMES--YES?" _London Dame_ ("_on her guard_"). "I HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA."] * * * * * A PAPER PROBLEM. Copy of a letter from the Reverend Laurence Longwind to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY:-- _The Rectory_, _Little Pottering_, _April 1st, 1917_. My LORD ARCHBISHOP,--I am writing to ask whether Your Grace would be so kind as to assist me in resolving a case of conscience which, I feel sure, must be exercising the minds and hearts of many of my brother clergy at the present time. The matter to which I refer is closely connected with the sad shortage of paper. It is no doubt known to Your Grace that many ministers of the Gospel, though capable of eloquence of a high order, _write_ their sermons. Old sermons tend to increase and multiply at an alarming rate. I myself have a chest of drawers literally stuffed with them. What, in Your Grace's opinion, should be done with these? Would it be right, in view of the purpose for which they were written, to tear them up and send them away to be pulped? Long and earnestly as I have considered the problem in all its bearings I am still utterly unable to arrive at a solution. No doubt I could sell them and devote the proceeds to charitable purposes. There is, I am informed, a large and steady demand for old sermons amongst the younger clergy who have not that ripe experience of life which sixty years in a rural parish cannot fail to provide. But I am informed that the dealers do not always offer appropriate prices. And I should hesitate to make a traffic in holy things unless I could make quite certain that no breath of scandal could result from inadequate remuneration.