ABSTRACT
VILLAGE life may be expected to provide less incident than material for reflection, for, indeed, is not the chief complaint against village life that it is dull? And here the casual guest may go very astray in his estimate of the interest of village existence, what may be incident for him is often mere sameness or commonplace for the villagers. Still, we must admit that the dullness of village life is due in some extent to an inherent human defect, that normal humanity has to be interested, it is unable to interest itself.
