"They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away."

In a twinkling he was gone. I awoke and found myself wondering if such Lotos-Eaters were not more common than I had thought.

Ohe ! jam satis.

WILLIAM MORTON FULLERTON.