courage, to convention nature, to passion reason. -^ When he was sunning himself in the Craneum, Alexander came and stood over him and said, " Ask of me any boon you like." To which he replied, "Stand out of my light." a Some one had been reading aloud for a very long time, and when he was near the end of the roll pointed to a space with no writing on it. " Cheer up, my men," cried Diogenes ; " there's land in sight." To one who by argument had proved conclusively that he had horns, he said, touching his forehead, " Well, I for my part don't see any." In like manner, when somebody declared that there is no such thing as motion, he got up and walked about. When some one was discoursing on celestial phenomena, " How many days," asked Diogenes, " were you in coming from the sky ? " A eunuch of bad character had inscribed on his door the words, " Let nothing evil enter." " How then," he asked, " is the master of the house to get in ? " When he had anointed his feet with unguent, he declared that from his head the unguent passed into the air, but from his feet into his nostrils. The Athenians urged him to become initiated, and told him that in the other world those who have been initiated enjoy a special privilege. " It would be ludicrous," quoth he, " if Agesilaus and Epaminondas are to dwell in the mire, while certain folk of no account will live in the Isles of the Blest because they have been initiated." When mice crept on to the table he addressed them thus, " See now even Diogenes keeps parasites." When Plato styled him a dog, " Quite true," he said, " for I come back again and again to those who have sold me." As he was leaving the public