A literary éeciety which yoes under the rather eccentric style of "The Odd Velumes" is, I hear, likely to develop into akind of Field Club. It is proposed that the members should make trips in the neighbourhood to places of, interest Swturday afternoons. There are few historic ruins in the vicinity, and no very remarkable natural features, but there ure plenty of pretty spots for picnics, and™ these would doubtless serve the turn of "The Odd Volumes." They could at least Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in'stones, and good in everything, I believe the Oddities will be personally conducted, probably by Mr, Sydney Skerteli~ ley, who-has done some rambling in the island and opposite mainland, He might, asx commencement, pilot them to the Tin Mines he helped to discover in Kowloon and give them a lecture on geology,
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