... Bra c !(e n BY KATHLEEN A. SIMMONS; TIRED? Just a little. One isn't any younger on one's silver-wedding day! Well, we're very near the top. Is it to be a rock or a brackeny bit? One of Donald's brackeny bits, please. Come along, then. Here we are. Sit down and i rest. That's better, isn't it? Much better. No one remembered us to-day. No, they were afraid. 1 Afraid Of hurting us. ...

... V J SIBTL I CHURCH Jj il J 1 I DESPISE a man who creeps shivering into love as if it were a cold bath. Nina Hartley's words splashed sharply on the silence like water poured from a window. Shows a certain modesty, said Herri lees. Or ignorance, I suggested. Or youth, said Prade, slowly, as though his reply mattered. Love being the one topic on which everyone has opinions, Nina's casual ...

... 4 J Tk A'f T By FRANK SAMUEL AND your Beatitude will, of course, impress upon the Captain in charge to see that the men take particular care of my luggage. And-- ah! yes-- I hope it is true that that fellow Papparigopoulo can cook. Mind, I repeat, I refuse to have things fried in mutton fat; they must use butter-- or, at least, oil. The Archbishop gravely made a gesture of assent. It was now ...

... Novels to Hand when Needed AS A RELIEF FROM THE REALITIES OF WAR j The Novelty of the Novel It is almost unbelievable, but there are novels now appearing which do not even hint that a war has come to alter our opinions about everything. Indeed, to read about life as, no doubt, it was seven months ago is to read about some incredibly ancient civilisation in which people did almost everything ...

... mma I ^^i,, i pj ______ i n i i 1 i i mi. iiiuiiinimiiimn 111111)111111)111111111 IM III I ^fWTlin^iTWIT PlIHIlllllllI WOMEN AND WAR No. III. J BY EFEMERA I ■mnnnmnDinnia i/iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiivni 1 liiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiii ramnf WHAT SHALL I DO New and Untried Nothing brings out the spirit of helpfulness so much as a national crisis, particularly a war. Everybody wants to do something, usually ...

... 3\Iissing ^Believed ]\illed^d By GUY LYSLE JACK MASTERLEY had been at home again for three days, and had spent nearly the whole of that time in the War Office. Surely no callow subaltern can have ever before received such polite and pressing attentions from distinguished Staff Officers. But Jack had a story to tell. After some months in the trenches he and h:s men had I been swooped down on by ...

... KpOght HawJ{sj BY 'NYONI'SUKU THE harsh clang of an electric gong beat into his head, and before the echo had died he was out of bed and stuffing himself into his clothes. He did this mechanically, his mind entirely bent on finding itself and ordering his senses, in a tenth of the time Nature requires for the purpose-- only niggers and people in books are ever deep in slumber one moment and ...

... I THE PRICE OF F FAME -ii i By I Muriel Htne J FH WHEN Pandora Bigge had completed her new novel she decided to give it the title of Any. it was the tashion in those times to clotne nction with a loose, misleading, and figurative name. It piqued the jaded appetite of the reading public, weary of the definitely outlined love-affair of the latest Elizabeth and those turgid problems of domestic ...

... Q j W.M. J 4 O'Kinealy JJ l __Z3 IT was natural she should be entangled with a French savant; she would have been entangled with every biologist, zoologist, and other sort of learned bug in Europe-- if she had had time. The curtain was rung up in Paris, in the Salon des Livres Exposes, at the Bibliotheque Nationale, a setting by no means without picturesqueness and charm. An elderly man is ...

... jS>ABY ^\9i Vy I I ^Margaret 11 Butler ll k CZZ3 MRS. BEESTON, the mother of the Rev. John Beeston and, therefore, the mother-in-law of Mrs. John Beeston, sat in her son's drawing- room in a state of very pleasurable anticipation. It was the morning of the annual flower show of the little Surrey village where Mr. Beeston had his living. The sun was shining and the Bishop was coming, the former ...

... Bystander Super-Scoops By Qu'importe? No. III. Earl Earwig's Exemption. THIS Is unquestionably the most stupendous serial ever let loose. Unchain- j ing a fiery mustang is like a white mouse to it. Tried on the cinema it shook the thing to bits and had to be hacked off with a pickaxe. It is absolutely the most palpitating transcript of human emotions that ever palped. f The manuscript can be ...

... L Captain s V Love BY RONALD FRANKAU IN England, Sylvia was a pretty little chorus girl-- who talked incessantly of her hair. In France, Sylvia became a darling --bereft of foibles. Considering her pro fession, I had known Sylvia a ver}' long time nearly eighteen months. v\ hen I first obtained my commission and succeeded in getting into an R.E. Signal Company, Sylvia used to sup with me at ...