He walked through the hot July streets with that feeling of flatness of the want of a mild excitement apart from his own home.

After a day or two he even began to be critical, and on Monday evening went so far as to complain of its flatness to the wide- eyed landlord of the "Royal George." "Too much cellar-work," he said, as he finished his glass and made for the door.

There would be a flatness about it all which would make any such interchange of words impossible.

If a joke falls flat, a small school of æsthetes only ask us to notice the wild grace of its falling and its perfect flatness after its fall.

There is nothing amateurish in the workmanship; the reader is not doomed to soar into extravagances at one moment, and sink into flatnesses at another.