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... SOME RECENT NOVELS of the SEASON. A Story of Motherhood In Billie's Mother (Edward Arnold. 6s.), by Mary J. H. Skrine, is presented an able and touching study of a peasant woman whose high ideals and recognition of her duty to her infant son relieve her character from commonplaceness. In the first chapter the description of a beautiful and ardent country girl may lead the reader to fear the ...

... 1 POLGLASE DISPOSES :l INCONVENIENT BURDEN I Private Polglase, Private Symons, and Private Harding of the D.C.L.I. were out for a walk. There was ill feeling just then between cantonments and bazaar, and the C.O.'s orders were that everybody was to be conciliatory towards natives, specially conciliatory that is, to be even kinder and more considerate than Tommy Atkins usually is towards ...

... . s i 1 I positively must have a new hat, said Sybilla. What, another? said I in a mildly protest ing voice. Why, you must have heaps of hats-- already, I mean. There's the blue thing with the tuft-- With the what With the er bunch of things sticking up. 8 Then there's the white straw, and the chenille toque; and the mauve hat, and the cream what-d'ye-call-it ft your aunt gave you Sj A ...

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... SEMIRAMIS A Tragedy-- 2182 B.C. S A SHORT STORY K By F. Jeffery H Of all my wives, said King Minus to Semiramis, it is you I love best. None have charms and graces like you, and for you I would willingly resign them all. ftf Let the King consider well what he says, 8 replied Semiramis. What if I were to take him at 8 his word A Do so, returned the monarch, while beloved A by you I am ...

... . From an American Correspondent Soldier Sam, the little card says, has arrived safely overseas. It's been days, and even weeks, now since last you heard from Soldier Sam, and very, very naturally you've been anxious, and sometimes, despite yourself, you would worry a trifle; but it's an axiom old as the eternal hills that all things come to them that wait, and so, at last, the post man ...

... UNDER THE CHERRY TREE. III. Leap-year Day Mr. Wantage Continues his Adventures Amongst the Lotus Eaters By PETEIR TEAS EE I chose Leap-year Day to ring up Alys. Anyone might imagine that to return the handkerchief which she had left behind with Mrs. Cecil Wain- wright was a paltry enough deed, but anyone would be wrong. Alys received me graciously; the more so, I thought, because her mother ...

... OF A DOOMED CITY. The Wines and Churches and Monks of Messina on the Island of Sicily By EOU2S G0LM.MG lit last week's issue we published a first article by Mr. Golding on A Wamlerbird in Sicily. This we follow up by a second, dealing with the writer' s impressions of Messina its wines, churches, earthquakes, and shipping. A traveller among cities develops some such con noisseurship as a ...