Smaller national units than the 14 1-3 million Jews have been able to do Germany vital injury or service, and, while the Jews have no national state, their dispersion over the whole world, their high standard of culture, and their peculiar abilities lend them a weight that is worth more in the balance than many larger national masses which occupy a compact area of their own.

Note, for instance, the high standard as to truthfulness indicated by Cicero, in his "Offices," III., 12-17, 32.

In addition to that, her genius left an impress upon music and the fine arts, an impress so profound that the high standard of excellence both have attained in our day is due to her efforts in establishing a solid foundation upon which it was possible to erect a substantial structure.

But Seneca fell infinitely short of his own high standard, and has contemptuously been called "the father of all them that wear shovel hats."

THE COCKER SPANIEL.For the last few years the popularity of this smaller sized branch of the Spaniel tribe has been steadily increasing, and the Cocker classes at most of the best shows are now remarkable both for the number of entries and the very high standard of excellence to which they attain.

The most noteworthy in England is the Hibbert Journal, which follows in the line of other reviews of high standard in past years, and which specially illustrates the spirit animating a large and influential section of the body.

This "noble-minded African," at least, estimated his own desert at a high standard: he demanded freedom,and obtained it.

He organized guilds among his workmen, and secured the adoption of regulations which served to maintain a high standard, and permitted none but perfect products to be placed upon the market.

The courts of justice have reached a high standard; the lower courts are administered almost exclusively by natives; the higher courts by English and natives together.

In the most distressed districts of the central provinces 16 per cent was regarded in 1896-7 as a very high standard of relief.

Many of these local craftsmen have attained a high standard of artistic skill in making up silk, wool, linen, cotton, carpets, brass, iron, silver, wood, ivory and other materials.

Let us measure the extent of the ignorance shown by this inaccuracy, and estimate its significance by a high standard.

The foregoing remarks on the constitution of the United States appear to me conclusive as to one factviz., that the democratic element may be introduced so largely as that, despite a high standard of national education and worldly prosperity, its influence will produce the most pernicious effect upon the government of the country.

From the very beginning Marconi had set a high standard for himself.

[New Orleans, 1911.]] Such an exhibit would have been the despair of the average ante-bellum planter, for instead of choosing among hundreds of applicants and rejecting or discharging those who fell short of a high standard, he had to make shift with such laborers as the slave traders chanced to bring or as his women chanced to rear.

The names of these magazines will readily occur to the reader, and, as they occur, he cannot but reflect that it was just editorial individuality and a high standard of policy that made them what they are, and what, it is ardently to be hoped, they will still continue to be.

He made the Review an independent and able exponent of current thought, and he kept it up to a very high standard of literary excellence.

Whatever he did was so well done that he was naturally followed as a model by those who were seeking a high standard.

At the age of nearly sixty-six, Mr. Webb found that his health would no longer stand the strain of the toil, care, and anxiety requisite to keep up the Babraham flock to the high standard of perfection which it had attained.

A high standard of intelligence is required, and lapses are not overlooked.

So deeply overlain with prejudice, conventionalities, and theological traditions is the average woman as well as the average man that it is difficult to argue in favor of a temporary tolerance of divorce that a permanent high standard of marriage may be established.

Given free with the Christmas 1904 issue of the "Art Interchange."] THE ART INTERCHANGE now occupies the first position among the art journals of America, and its high standard of excellence will be maintained throughout.

Then he goes on to say that it was I who encouraged him to preserve a high standard of delicacy in these matters.

You urge that it is unprecedented to have at a dignified institution, which aims at a high standard, under the superintendence of a professor, such a performance; that it excites the prejudices of some people against us; and you quote the sharp remarks of David's Harp, the organ of the Dunkers.

and yet, sir, the high standard, sound principle, and strong faith he learnt from you and your example have prevailed to bear him through.