The following discussion ensued on the reading of the above paper: Colonel Yule said he had for thirty or forty years looked with intense interest at the dark spot of Kafiristan on the map of Asia, and had therefore listened with great pleasure to Mr. McNair's modest account of one of the most adventurous journeys that had ever been described before the Society.

But between these extremes, as I said before, there are many people with moderately developed and cultivable faculty; and it is these who, I trust, may find some profit in the following discussions.

The one and only subject of the following discussions is the best method of fitting a dramatic theme for representation before an audience assembled in a theatre.

The following discussion of the conservation problem is not a systematic treatise upon the subject.

" Then followed discussions and arrangements respecting his clothes.

I make no pretence at having myself examined all the texts mentioned in the following discussion.