... WHY CAl'TAIN RAWPON DID NUT CO TO THE WAR. By Feedeeick Boyle. Author of Camp A'oles,' Chronicles of Nomansland, Legends of My Bungalow c. YOU know, Clem, that my appointment is gazetted. If I could help you in any way I would give you my last hour, but there is no room for any body's interference, least of all mine. We may have our opinion of Darner, but a lady Bees him from a different ...

... BY MKS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of 11 Ladies on Horseback dec. CHAPTER XL. THE two hours which she had craved had just elapsed, when Caroline drove hastily to the door of her own dwelling. A hur ried question to the page who answered her knock, and she crossed to the library, where George was pacing slowly up and down. The calm, satisfied expression upon her pleased face contrasted with his, ...

... . BY H. IIOWARD. I WAS sitting, the disconsolate victim of atmospheric in fluence, at the window of the Turf Club one dreary afternoon in the beginning of May, watching the sleet showers chasing the dust storms, and wondering if the wind would ever leave the east, and make life worth living again, when the room seemed suddenly to light up as it were with a gleam of sun shine, and I became ...

... LADIES IX THE COUNTRY. No. II. So often when driving with hounds the main object of the day disappears altogether for an hour or more at a time, and if you have not a taste for sketching, or stick -hunting, or fossils, what can you do but grumble It seems such a pity that just when the scenery is at its best, the weather gets too cold for us to sit out of doors and sketch it. We can only make ...

... THE STORY OP ROBERT, SON OP ETJDE, KNOWN AS KOBIN HOOD. By A. H. Wall. PART TWO. CONCERNING THE REBELLION OF KING HENRY THE YOUNGER. CHAPTER III. [Concluded.) The next day was Sunday, and on the Monday à Becket was too ill to rise. The King hearing this, scornfully refused to believe that he was so ill, but the Earls of Leicester and Corn wall, who had visited the Archbishop, confirmed the ...

... LOVE'S VICTORY. A DRAMATIC STORY Adapted expressly for this paper. By Howard Paul. CHAPTER X. IT was a dark, freezing night; the sky was laden with clouds, and a furious wind was shaking the snow off the black branches of the trees in the Champs Elysées. Paul rushed in feverish haste, without aim or purpose, solely bent upon escape. But, when he had gone some distance the cold night-air ...

... THE RUN OF THE SEASON OR, THE PHANTOM FOX. By Wat Bradwood (Author of O V. H. Ensemble A Hunt Cup ttyc.J CHAPTER I. CAPTAIN BUMPUS. RUTSHIRE is a thoroughly arable county; what meadow lands it boasts are, like angels' visits, few and far between. Through the centre of it runs a long backbone of hill, rising some 700 feet above sea-level. The surface of this high ground is arable, but its ...

... . By Henry Hersee. AMONGST other unconsidered trifles in a neglected drawer, I recently discovered an old cheque-book, and have found food for sweet and bitter fancies in recalling some of the circumstances under which the cheques were given, of which only the counter foils remain. Sometimes my memory has been at fault. Here is an instance, 27th June, 186--. JAMES HODGKISS, £300. Who was ...

... TOETS AND PLAYERS IN THE DAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. ANOTHER STROLL ON THE BANltsmE. PART IV. Concluded from page 6150 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, who has been called the morning star of the drama, was one of the older poets who, under the influence of Greene, resented the encouragement given by the players and public to the upstart crowe, young Shakspeare, on his first arrival amongst them. He was the ...

... yachting and shooting trip to A ALBANIA By Bagatelle (A. G. Bagot.) II. I left us at nine o'clock just embarked, and settling down in what was about to become our home for eight months. Of course there were a hundred things to see to in the way of sea stock, meat, vegetables, &c., &c., and the stewards were pretty busy what with catering and unpacking our various boxes. By dinner time, ...

... . Talk about the tricks of chance, said the man on the box seat of the drag, I've never come across any of them to beat one she played a fellow when I was at college. There was a set of us who used to be seen a good deal at a certain house that shall be nameless because it hadn't a first- class reputation, but if it hadn't a first-class reputation it had what we thought something a great ...

... THE NEW BOUNDARY PJDER. A STORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSH LIFE. Br Mary Gaunt. IV. ADRIAN GRANT. IT was late in the afternoon before her messenger returned. If you please-- he was just twelve, but was firmly convinced that the prosperity of the station mainly depended on him-- if you please. he'll be over immediate. Oh, is that all? That's all. Was Mr. Grant at the hut Did you give him the note ...