_Professor Leacock, of M'Gill University, at present lecturing in Scotland, recommends defenestration as an effective mode of getting rid of the population of the average magazine story~a wholesale order that recalls the last scene of all in "Hamlet." Several novelists have already utilized this means of getting rid of. surplus characters and difficult situations. William Black, in one of his novels, puts his hero and heroine on a yacht and remorselessly sinks it. Barrie hanged Tommy Sandys on a fence by a collar—not a very plausible end. ''Contending passions" gave highly satisfactory results in "Ivanhoe."" Payn boiled a villain, and Stevenson buried one alive. Meredith burned a hero, drowned a second, and shot a third in a duel. But Dickens' use of spontaneous combustion is not considered justifiable, though d-driven novelist might resort in desperate cases, like that of the indestructible Sherlock, whose career not even the horrid rocks of the Reichenbach could terminate.
TeMPER IN Gor, "An amateur," says Sandy Herd, "ought to.be better able to control his feelings than a professional. His living does not depend upon his golf. He is able to play at golf; the professional works at it."
Henry Vardon tells, with one of his quiet chuckles, that Herd once said to an amateur who had been holing shots from all parts of the green, "Man, you could na putt like that it ye had to do it for a living."
George Duncan gives this hint on driving,—Keep heavy on the left foot when you want to drive low, and light on the left when you wish to get height.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.