We are all too apt, I think, to imagine that our own discoveries of the mystery and magic of life are peculiar to ourselves, or shared only with a sympathetic few, passed on sometimes (by the _very_ few who have both will and power to do so) to such of the outsiders as are interested enough to enter into that enchanted garden and take gifts from it. But has not the supreme discovery of the greatest artists, philosophers and teachers been that the "everyday people" _do_ live as deeply and broadly as the thinkers and artists? They are inarticulate and cannot tell what they see, but to them life is made amusing, or interesting, or consecrated according to their temperament. Who can say what the Cornish sea means to that tired worker? At least it seems a boldness that is almost insolence to decide what it did _not_ mean to her! Has not every life its revelations? Is it not because we do _not_ see as God does that some one particular life which strikes across our path cannot reveal its revelation over again to us? Surely "the commonplace is the highest place." Or rather, there are no hierarchies of the soul. Artist or seamstress or carpenter, we live by the glory that flows to us through whatever curtains of environment are round us. I have not a word of criticism for the writer's ideal. All that I would suggest is that the ideal is really present in the world, "common" as the "everyday" flowers at his feet. Not all can sing or paint or write, but many more can laugh or run and all, perhaps, can love and pray. L.E. HAWKS. ON LEARNING TO BREATHE.[18] [18] This is article has been specially written as a preface for _Health Through Breathing_, by Olga Lazarus, shortly to be published (1s. net). To breathe correctly and sufficiently is to live more healthily. This dictum is incontrovertible, and it becomes my pleasant duty herein to demonstrate its truthfulness. And, after a careful perusal of the hundred exercises which the authoress has so clearly and succinctly described, I am still more convinced of the very great, one might almost say of the tremendous, importance of deep-breathing exercises. What has struck me so forcibly in this little book is the fact that there is no undue enthusiasm evident; no embellishment of the subject; no extravagant claims for the system advocated; just a plain sane, sober and intelligent description of procedures of immense value to all who would either keep, or improve, their health. The authoress has, as it were, laid before the reader a feast of good things in the way of physical culture, and leaves it at that. She seems to have brought into purview a splendid variation of the exercises, and indeed every mode of breathing and exercise likely to be beneficial--to those in health as out of it.