" I had a vision of Elspeth's birthday party when we sat round the Governor's table, and I had wondered dismally how long it would be before our pleasant songs would be turned to mourning.

People talked of the faulty division of wealth; but it was madness to dream of an Utopia, where there would be no more masters but only so many brothers, equal workers and sharers, who would apportion happiness among themselves like a birthday-cake.

Afterwards, in a friend's birthday book M. Zola inscribed his famous, epoch-making phrase, 'Truth is on the march, and nothing will be able to stop it.'

"I have a birthday gift for the fair one.

I built that theatre in New Yorkthere isn't another place like it in the worldand offered it to her for a birthday present.

[Illustration: A BIRTHDAY GREETING FOR HINDENBURG.

[His birthday celebration lasted over two days and numbers of beasts and of men were slain.]

With it ended the era of birthday songs and New-Year's verses.

They have a place on the programme at all celebrations of feast days; they appear at weddings and birthday anniversaries, and are quite as important as an orchestra at one of our social occasions at home.

MY DEAREST DORA,I am afraid you will say that I have forgotten you and your most loving and welcome birthday letter, but as I know you will not think it, I don't so very much mind.

The birthday murder.

He might have been a real stormy petrel, breasting the billows in his birthday suit and expecting his feathers to be dried when and how the Lord pleased.

Tell me a birthday story.

When Lady Windermere's Fan was first produced, no hint was given in the first act of the fact that Mrs. Erlynne was Lady Windermere's mother; so that Lord Windermere's insistence on inviting her to his wife's birthday reception remained wholly unexplained.

A pleasant clatter from the dining-room announced that my birthday tea was in active preparation.

He is celebrating the birthday feast at his villa.

I only thought of her because she's the birthday girl.

She might have stood there and brought back all those dead birthday nights, so did he live them over.

A birthday message; hope you'll have, just every way.

A Birthday garland.

He said that was his birthday treat.

A birthday tribute.

Charlie, can you think of a good birthday wish?

One of the prettiest features of the service in this department is the offering of the birthday pennies.

R61208, 18Apr50, L. Stewart Barr (A) MOTHER (Mother's birthday prayer), a poem by L. Stewart Barr.