... 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 ...

... f_ 1 I THE COMMOTION- IN THeT' J k_. 1) L AM I LY J|L. Written by V LEOTSIAR.D (K) X^MERRICK CHAPTER X If any of the Sydenham young ladies-- or, for that matter, if any young lady in any other highly ...

... THE PITFALLS 0# FICTION. A correspoxhent writes I wish you would ask Rapier to rend and explain the first two chapters of Disraeli's Sybil, which deal with the eve and the day of the Derby of 1857. In a vast and golden saloon that in its decorations would have become, and in its splendour would not have disgraced, Versailles in the days of the grand monarch were assembled many young ...

... . By Walter H. Holton. No picture of peaceful Broadland would be complete without a wherry. The graceful run of its lines and the huge high-peaked tan sail swinging well above the stocky, gaily painted mast, driving the squat, clean-cut bows with a hiss and a bubble along the shimmering reaches, make it one of the most picturesque craft in the world, while the brilliant splashes of colour ...

... XI.-- A CMAMFIOBJ OF SORTS. By Major FlhUlp Trevor. AS all the world knows-- all the world in this case being a few hundred women and a few score men of a certain kind-- who Lord Croone's only sister married there is no need for me to mention his name. She was a strange woman, disliking publicity and not enamoured of her kind, but so charitable and simple withal that she was grateful to any ...

... TIE HET OF MEMORY- -cor&t. The more pronounced the scoffer the more com plete his collapse when he is really smitten by the divine rod. Anyway, Dick Featherstone was fairly and squarely carried off his feet. She had that soft, peachy kind of bloom on her that is so fascinating, and makes you want to well, do exactly what Featherstone did. She had an absolutely superb figure, and her hair ...

... Being in Some Respects a Sequel to fane, of clLf.' By Gilbert Framkau. xxii. On with the dance we've cocktailed, dined and wined Let rag-time reign and joy be unrefined. TO-NIGHT'S the night! To-night the Castle blazes Lamp-lit from lowest lake to topmost flagstaff. To-night the tom-tom's syncopation crazes And Dionysus waves his gladdest rag staff. Lulu is here to lead the Maxixe mazes Lulu ...

... By Alain LretHbridge. THE world had little use for Alistair Fendall. Time was when life had seemed a path of roses to him, but that was long ago. When he had attained his majority he had been flung by his father into the whirl of life. Of family affection, sympathy, or influence, he had been profoundly ignorant, even the shelter of a home had never been his. Was it very surprising then if, ...

... . By LOUISE HEILGERS. WELL, it doesn't look haunted, said Carden. It certainly doesn't, agreed Marriot. He turned sharply upon the agent. What's your real opinion of the matter? he asked. The agent looked unhappy. He possessed a Nonconformist conscience, which at times he found hard to reconcile with his profession. i wasn t living in inornctyke at the time it Happened, Sir, he answered ...

... . By HERBERT SHAW. BRANGWYN stayed late at the office, as he had stayed many times in the last seventeen years; but this time he stayed on no business of the Muir Watson Syndicate, but on a purely private matter. No foot but that of the watchman of the third floor troubled the long stone corridors, and the windows that looked out upon the yard that was the bottom of a giant well saw nothing ...

... BY LEONARD K. UNWIN. CYNTHIA looked up with a smile of welcome as I came in. Good afternoon, I said. I 've called about the little ac count. She waved an incomparably moulded arm in the direction of a chair on the other side of the tea- table near the fire. Do sit down, Mr. Ponsonby, and have some tea, and try not to be silly, she urged. I will sit down and I will have some tea, I said ...

... . By Pi ggy Whaling. Met hit en is the narrative of a career. In the opening chapter, Felix is the first violin of an orchestra engaged for a dance in a Canadian farmhouse. It was not a large orchestra, for it consisted of Wiggins, who played the piano, and one fiddler. Professor Wiggins said that he made a great point of keeping it select. The first violin was a tall, slight, wiry youth. ...