(Continued) or English work of fiction, but a French novel, "Le Maître de Forges," by Georges Ohnet, which reached a sale of 7,000,000 copies in France alone-and this in spite of the fact that Jules Le Maître, a distinguished critic, denounced the novel as "the worst ever written since the beginning of time." The upsetting of old habits among the working people of Germany since the war is strikingly shown by a corre spondent of the New York "Times" who has recently been through the great Krupp Works in Essen. He says that the 50,000 workers now there employed are on an eight-hour schedule which be gins at six o'clock in the morning. They have but one fifteen-minute pause in their work and they stop at a quarter past two. This gives them practically. all the afternoon, as well as the evening, for amusement. The result is said to be that they show up pretty tired in the morning, with resultant loss in produc tion. Luigi Denza is a name that perhaps means little to the average reader, but its bearer was the author of a song that has gone round the entire world-"Funiculi, Funicula." Signor Denza, who died recently, composed the song when the funicular railway up Mount Vesuvius was opened in 1880. It has been trans lated, it is said, into every civilized language. "Good-nature, like a bee, collects honey from everywhere. Ill-nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower." A subscriber thus comments on the above simile, quoted in The Outlook of February 22: "The food of spiders con sists exclusively of the juice of insects, sometimes of members of their own or der, and other small creatures. There fore, as they are entirely carnivorous, they never suck anything from the flow. ers. I resent this implication as to the spider's habit." 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