... THE KARON'S GLOVES A REMINISCENCE OE TO UK A I NE By MAX PEMBERTON AT the dusk of the day when the curtains are drawn and the lamp are lit and the blaze is ruddy upon the hearth, I speak to little Eve ...

... By CHARLES LEE I When, after forty years of faithful service at the harmonium up to Wesley Chapel, Benjie Dunstone resigned his office, said good bye to our little town, and went o ...

... By PERCEVAL GIBBON When the skipper came on deck, about six bells in the morning watch, there was a trifle of smother up wind, and the water bubbled merrily in the lee scuppers as the Aurora ...

... Precisely. When he lets you in, you will know him because he has a reddish beard that is turning white on the left side. He cultivates the vineyard, and the owner takes half the nroduce hilt for a con ...

... Written by LEONARD MERRICK IN Bordeaux, on the 21st of December, M. Petitjean, a clerk with Bohemian yearnings, packed his portmanteau for a week's holiday. In Paris, on t ...

... Candles in the Wind. liv Maud Diver. \B lack-wood.) is, Miss Maud Diver tells us, the last volume of a trilogy of novels dealing with the life and work of the Indian frontier. It is a painstaking piece of work, in which any student of frontier affairs may recognise a score of incidents. Whether the courageous actions of a real person should be appropriated on behalf of a fictitious hero is ...

... . By C. WILLETT CUNNINGTON. CAREFUL search among the archives of medical literature reveals the remarkable fact that no patient has ever recovered from seven or more medical gentlemen in consultation. The explanation of this is unknown. Patients have survived the attentions of five or even six doctors, but never those of seven. T mo lit. VUL tlluub W 1. Ob V bll X ILlV-j there was a case, ...

... By Frances Harrod. Duckwot th 6s. Italian peasant-life has provided novelists with many a charming; story. It is not because the life of men and women who work upon the land in Italy varies greatly from similar lives lived in lands more or less remote it is, rather, because Italy is a beautiful country, affording abundant material for word-pictures and familiar to the cultured or travelled ...

... By Netta Syrett. (Lawrence and Btillen. 3s. 6d. Many people and some publishers seem to think that it is perfectly easy to write for children, with the result that every year terrible examples of futility and vulgarity appear, only to disappoint and disgust the unfortunate little ones to whom they are presented. It is really much easier to write for grown-up people, because what is wanted for ...

... SACRIFICE By FRED M. WHITE Ciy -r.pv Cr-- -rr- -^f-' irC*' C^fy VERNON FORSYTH was growing just a little tired of it. He wanted to get away to the edge of the river and smoke; the tangle in his new comedy was worrying him again. After all, there are dis advantages in being a popular playwright. There were other matters, too. He was disturbed, too, about Hetty Harbord. It was true she had a ...

... secretary, a dark-robed, hitrh-caDDed monk with a keen, astute face. secretary, a dark-robed, high-capped monk with a keen, astute face. Having heard their request, the secretary addressed himself to ...

... By ALFRED E. SNODGRASS IT is the little things in life that tell. Every mole hill of circumstance is a mountain of consequence. If Ralph Merton had not stopped at a certain sheltered corner to light his pipe, his life would have been another story altogether. 1 here was a strong wind blowing along the sea front, and it required several matches to get the tobacco properly aglow. When at last ...