... THE NEW BOUNDARY EIDER. A STORY OF AUSTRALIAN BUSH LIFE. By Mary Gaunt. IX. MARRIED. AND the next morning she set off for Acacia Greek. She wished she was not going, she wished she had not promised to go; but, having promised, she did not quite see how she was to get out of it. No reasonable excuse presented itself. She could not say to Tom she wanted to stay at home because Adrian Grant had ...

... A NOVEL IN A NUTSHELL. A QUESTION OF DENOMINATIONALISM. BY G. STANLEY ELLIS. When Parson's daughter, Alice Treweekes, came down to breakfast there was a letter waiting for her on the table. From this you may judge that the Treweekes family, or Alice, at any rate, were rather late risers, for the postman doesn't get to the rectory before ten o'clock. In fact, the letters rarely reach ...

... . ADMIRAL GRANT recently announced that he has no intention of retiring, and it is consequently to be inferred that he will not cause any vacancy on the active list of admirals for another two years. At that time, unless he receives an appointment, he must retire under the ten years' non-employment regulation. The Order in Council of July, 1895, altered the ten years to seven, but did not ...