... Salvage work, though probably the most sensational of all employments, is also among the least familiar. It has accordingly provided Mr. Maurice Drake with a fresh, as well as e ...

... I THE COMMOTION IN THE I FAM I LY I CHAPTER VIII Ralph Hollingsworth went to town with little hope. His chance of finding her was painfully slender; was, in deed, limited to the office of the dramat ...

... 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 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... The Woman in the Bazaar. By Alice Perrin. Cassell Though. Mrs. Perrin knows her India too thoroughly ever to be negligible among novelists of India, and though she is, besides, too clever in her art to be anything but readable, The Woman in the Bazaar is a story that wears thin by more tokens than one. It is weak in the construction, which obliges a divorced husband to wait for his second try ...

... THE Ponders were in the van of Fashion; that is to say, the Ponders themselves thought so, and by dint of frequent and judicious repetition induced a large number of their friends to believe it, and they daily abased themselves in reverential rows commencing on the Ponders' immaculate doorstep and ending in their iniquitously expensive green and gold drawing-room. Sir William, it should be ...

... i _gj i r j yi --3^^ I T i/r5K''rtad8 glopgmgnt By FREDERICK FENN MRS. RUTLAND was one of those people whose chief interest in life lay in fancying that she was unhappy. She felt that she ought to be pitied for having married John Rutland, and for having sacrificed the delights of London to become the sober wife of a substantial country gentle man and J. P. As a result, she spent her early ...

... v By C. STARR JOHNS MAX VON WOLLEN BERG dismissed his motor at a corner and walked rapidly along the Herthestrasse. Many men, who knew him by sight, saluted him respectfully, but he barely acknowledged their salutations, indeed, he hardly appeared to notice them. A small house stood a little way back from its neighbours. Here he paused, and rang the bell vigorously. Is your mistress in Yes, ...

... BY JESSIE G. COURT The Bystander M Surprise Story ...

... r Put It Down in the Bill BY HARFORD WORLOCK J C 'I'M just going round the shops, said Patricia, feel like coming? That little pig went to market this little pig stayed at home, I answered. Talking of pigs reminds me, Patricia chipped in do you think, if you approached him tactfully, the landlord might put a wing on to the larder Talking of pigs and wings, 1 observed, they might fly. ...

... THE GOLDEN SCORPION, An Oriental Mystery. By SAX ROHMER. PART I.-- THE COWLED MAN. CHAPTER I. THE SHADOW OF A COWL. KEPPEL STUART, M.D., F.R.S., awoke with a start and dis covered himself to be bathed in cold perspiration. The moonlight shone in at his window, but did not touch the bed, therefore his wakening could not be due to this cause. He lay tor some time listening for any unfamiliar ...