Stamp Collecting as a Pastime

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been going to die a natural death for the past forty years. But it is not dead yet. Indeed, it is very much more al

craze. The philanthropist who builds and endows hospitals and churches is "a crank," following a mere craze. The earnest student of social problems is "off the track," on a craze. The man who seeks relaxation by any change of e

n in trade, it has always been on the increase. Indeed, it has never in all those years been more popular with the cultured classes than it is to-day. The Philatelic Society of London has an unbroken record of regular meet

urgical cabinets are coated with dust, and even walking-sticks survive only at Sandringham!" Just so. We are all-Governments, people, and weather-going to the bad as fast as we can go, according to the croakers, the wiseacres, and t

w things more completely wean the attention, for the time being, from the vexations and worries of the day than the collection and arrangement of postage stamps. In fact, stamp collecting has an ever-recurring freshness all its own, a scope fo

tamp collecting may be superseded by a more engrossing hobby. The indications, however, are all in favour of its growing hold upon its universal public. The