Happily the success of the French, and our own failure, did not create any feeling of unpleasantness between the troops of the two nations.

" Andrew Lang, another prominent investigator of psychic phenomena, gives the following interesting experiment in crystal-gazing: "I had given a glass ball to a young lady, Miss Baillie, who had scarcely any success with it.

"Well, is not putting duty first, and success second, a way of raising the standard of virtue?