In his talk last Wednesday Mr.
Williamson dealt with ' Childhood.' This evening he passes to the next stage-falling in love. One does not need to be exceptionally widely read to recall dozens of notable passages in literature describing that phenomenon which, like the sunrise, is always happening and is always new. The instant surrender of David Copperfield at the first shake of Dora's curls ; the no less complete conquest of the Chevalier des Trieux when first he saw Manon Lesr-aut in the courtyard of the inn at Amiens : the famous meetings-of Dante and Beatrice, of Ferdinand and Miranda-half the passages that are remembered through the centuries describe the same curious psychological catastrophe that, in all its variety, is simply labelled' falling in love.' And the torturing, unhappy passion of Jude the Obscure, of Bradley Headstone , or of Romola, sticks with a persistent discomfort in the reader's mind.