The remainder of his literary effects, he said (meaning, of course, the note-book), he desired me (as he knew I had some connection with a certain magazine) to present to the editor of that journal. Little more remains to be said here of Mr. Topaz (my friend). He was not called upon to lay down his life for his country (or his paper); after the armistice he went valiantly into Germany; and there (as the papers have reported) he contracted a marriage; and is little likely again to be seen in these parts. The first page of the note-book contains these entries. It is headed JOTTINGS "Good name for a small orphan--Tommy Crandle. "Fat person--shrugged his stomach. "Name for a spendthrift--Charles Spending. "Aphorism--Fear makes cowards of us all. "Billy Sparks--Fine name for a lawyer. "Nice name for a landlady--Mrs. Baggs. "Humorous Christian name for a fat boy--Moscow. "Name for a clerk--Mr. Fife. "Good name for someone to cry out on a dark night--Peter Clue! Peter Clue! "Good name for a sporting character--Bob Paddock. "Aphorism--A fool and his foot are soon in it. "Good name for a tea room in Greenwich Village--The Bad Egg. "Epigrammatic remark--Though somewhat down in the mouth he kept a stiff upper lip." * * * * * Then follows this on umbrellas, evidently the opening of an unwritten essay: And, like umbrellas, with their feathers Shield you in all sorts of weathers. MICHAEL DRAYTON. "Among all the ingenious engines which man has contrived for his ornament and protection none, certainly, is more richly idiosyncratic than the umbrella. Literary genius has always instinctively recognized this; and doubtless the esoteric fact has been vaguely felt even by the unthinking; but it is a profound truth which, I fear, has had but slight popular appreciation. "The use of this historic and peculiarly eloquent article of personal property, the umbrella, illustrates pictorially a proverbial allusion to the manifestation of intelligence: it shows that a man has 'sense enough to go in out of the rain.' It reveals not only the profundity of his judgment but the extraordinary play of his cleverness, as it exhibits him as the only animal who after crawling into his hole, figuratively speaking, pulls his hole in after him, or, in other words, carries his roof with him. Further than this, in the idea of carrying an umbrella you find the secret of man's striking success in the world: the intrepidity of his spirit in his tenacious pursuit of his own affairs defies both the black cloud's downpour and the sun's hot eye." * * * * * There is this, headed HUMOR