... Curtain for dfj en edict by Hollow ay Ho?-n AS Murray let himself into his empty flat, the clock in the hall chiming mid night ushered in his wedding day. He flung his coat on to the old chest and gla ...

... The Devil's Profession. By Gertie de S. Wen tw or th- James. (John Long.) is. net. Because of Phcebe. By Kate Horn. (Stanley Paul.) 6s. To Sibell, a true friend, in memory o ...

... THE STORY of a GREAT FANE Westminster Cathedral. TIME slips on. Who would have said that a quarter of a century had flown since the laying of the foundation-stone of Westminster Cathedral? Yet this ev ...

... Of he fBirthdau fJhrlu cBij jfosephine Ulumenfeld IT was all for him-- everything, the dinner in the great restaurant, the theatre that was to come, and the dancing afterwards. His party, his birthday ...

... 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 ...

... : By Holloway Horn FORBES HAMILTON was still at work in her study overlooking the garden, although the clock on her desk showed that it was nearly one o'clock. The shaded oil-lamp ...

... Silk J^ext Skin i>u (3. ODilliam Hreck THE pyjamas of M. Edouard de Goutes were of great beauty and also of great warmth. He surveyed them with infinite pride. Their green stripes against a cream-whit ...

... 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, ...

... . Mr. Meek's story (George Meek, Bath-chair-man, by Himself: Constable) is devoted exclusively to himself. He tells us how he was raised in poverty near Eastbourne; of his early situations (and they were legion) in that town; he relates his experiences of London life, which deal chiefly with homes of refuge and charity organisations; he describes his abortive attempt at farm- labouring in ...

... 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 ...