... SEMI-SOCIETY. 1>Y f RANK KICHARDSON. {Chat to and IVindus. 6s.) In The King's Counsel, Mr. Frank Richardson told the story of the love of Vincent Skrene for a married woman in Semi-Society he reverses the process, and deals in the main with the love of a married woman tor Vincent Skrene. There is much that is clever in the record of the class aptly defined by Mrs. Bernstein as not even ...

... 'THE TAINT OF THE CITY. By Charles Eddy. {Arnold. 6s.) Mr. Charles Eddy appears to know his way about the dingy alleys and sordid courts of the City. At any rate, he is a guide who possesses sufficient knowledge to enable him to make the journey quite interesting to anyone who has the good fortune to be a stranger in the land of bulls and bears. In his latest novel, Mr. Eddy tells of an ...

... THE AMBLERS: A ROMANCE OF THEATRICAL LIFE. By B. L. Farfeon, Author of Miriam Rozella, Grif, The Pride of Race. CHAPTER XXVI. DAVID AMBLER AND THE BISHOP'S WIFE. The theatre-loving public of Ridgvvay-on-Sea was in a pleasurable flutter of excitement, the culminating signs of which were centred about the walls of the New Theatre Royal, wherein its first manager, Mr: Goldsack, still reigned ...

... By Gordon Meggy. Pity me, gentle reader! I am trying to learn bridge, and to aid my efforts have purchased a little book entitled Bridge, and How to Play It. I find it is divided into seven chapters, an appendix, and an index, not to mention a separate preface for each of various editions, and a whole page headed Historical in large black letters, which only informs me that, though no one ...

... THE POISONED OCTAVE A COMPLETE STORY, By W. T. Marsden. It was at Lady Wincote's ball that the news of the engagement of her niece, Miss Helen Staverton, to Sir John Harton was made public property. Miss Staverton stood near the young baronet looking rather shy and supremely happy receiving the congratu lations of a couple of heavy dowagers. She was rather fragile in appearance with a pale ...

... ELIZA'S HUSBAND. By Barry Pairv. II. The Hag of Haverstone. I thought, said Eliza, that you weren't one for reading these trashy novels. I've spoke twice to you about the sweep not having come and got no answer. There you sit. I put the book down. I had just finished it. Pardon me, I said, but this book is not strictly speaking a novel at all. She picked the book up and read the title ...

... SISTER. MARGARET. A COMPLETE STORY. By Edgar Tvirrver. I had been acquainted with Bertram Dunlake for several years. We belonged to the same club and had often met there, and occasionally at a theatre or concert-room. This, however, was our first walk together and happened quite by chance, one of us-- I forget which-- overtaking the other in the street and beginning a conversation. Although it ...

... A DOUBLE EVENT A Story of the Derby. By R. Parke Buckley. Bridge, bridge, bridge from morn till dewy eve, hummed Captain Pop Randall improvising. I'm just about full of it. Some people are shockingly bad losers, soliloquised pretty Sadie Curzon as she coaxed a wandering tendril of auburn hair into its proper place. It isn't losing I mind so much, objected Pop, it's the horrid bore of ...

... SOLDIERS ALL! A COMPLETE STORY. By Estelle Burney. Lord Balham, perhaps because his barony was of a James I. creation that might not be confounded with the beer and soap varieties of the title belonging to a latter day, frankly admitted himself as a laggard behind the times, out of tune with modern life, as unappreciative of its vaunted progress, as intolerant of its social developments. His ...

... . By HAROLD WHITE. THE attempts made to force a retirement on Mr. Justice Strode were frequent and varied, but persuasions, pensions, even a Peerage, had failed to draw him from the Bench. It may have been a sense of the loss his unappreciative country would sustain, or it may have been an inherent spirit of contradiction; but there he sat like a limpet, dispensing justice untempered by mercy, ...

... i ELIZA'S HUSBAND. VII. By Arrangement. By Barry Pain.. When Jollibut at the corner shop was sold up-- which I had seen long before was bound to come-- I attended the sale. It was Saturday afternoon and there was nothing else to do. I asked Eliza to come with me, and I asked her more than once, but she said she had only one pair of hands and no time for gaieties. If she had been there I should ...

... ELIZA'S HUSBAND. Vlll. Miss Jerningham, By Barry Pain. I admit that I was not displeased when Eliza told me that Miss Sakers wished to bring her friend, Miss Jerningham, to call on us one afternoon. But I did not like the way Eliza smiled and said we were getting on in the world. It seemed to me so undignified. Very well, I said, I suppose we must take Miss Sakers'sword for it that her ...