... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... IN The Singer, just issued by Blackwood, Mr. W. J. Eccott gives us a well-written spy story of a most thrilling kind. The female Hun is as wicked and alluring as her beauti ful proto ...

... . 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 ...

... Being in Some Respects a Sequel to dy?l& O *2^. i?y Gilbert Frammau. xix. Resumes in shrillest Frankauesque con brio T/ie Jill Tredither Garforth-Chumleigh trio. LORD of the Northern Sea! Elusive merman Not Vanoc's self can blow to oil and glory: Magnate of gold- trusts never dreamed by Sherman: Splendour of Liberal and pride of Tory All Highest and most Natural Anglo-German: Quaintest of. ...

... Tlhe Naval Officer and. ttlhe Little Grey BooRs. JUST prior to the War, a brilliant young naval officer had a bad breakdown; a breakdown so complete that it looked as though his career were at an end. He was ordered an entire and protracted rest not only from professional duty, but from every form of work. But War broke out, and his ser vices he was a clever expert were urgently needed. He ...

... JUST prior to the war, a brilliant young naval officer had a bad breakdown-- a breakdown so complete that it looked as though his career were at an end. He was ordered an entire and protracted iest not only from professional duty, but from every form of work. But war broke out, and his services he was a clever expert were urgently needed. He rejoined. Despite his anxiety to serve, however, he ...

... Uhe Inhumanity of Captain Vosper By VIOLET M. METHLEY 11 111 m tl THE senti mental and soft-hearted on board the Gigantic were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Isn't it perfectly sweet to see Captain Vosper with little Basil Lady Doubell whispered to Miss Stevens, her companion. Quite a picture Miss Stevens assented enthusi astically. And the captain always seemed such a hard man like iron. ...

... 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 ...

... Km *9 Of rnJMmfts Being in Some Respects a Seqjjel to of cUs By Gilbert Frail kau. XI. Changes the scene to lands of Raphael, Dante, Caruso, Borgia, Cnocchi and Chianti. IN that glad age when Muse and I blued capital-- (And whence we now draw not-too-dusty divi dends: binding that, since the War God sought to scrap it all And turn the peacefulest crank to serve his livid ends, If we pour ...

... One of* Beixg ix Some Respects a Sequel to One of His. By Gilbert Frankau. v. Brings Ufa to week-old statues makes them prance To love's light tune and ends the Seymours' dance. PALE shapes I locked in memory's studio, Your draperies stir. From vein to marble vein The life-blood leaps. Eyes gleam, and pulses glow. Once more my octaves rap their old refrain To re-create the weekly puppet-show. ...

... Belmg em Some Respects a Segiuel to (fine of cUsl By Gilbert Framkau. XXV. Muse imitates her novelistic betters By filling up an awkward gap with letters. HELP for a stranded literary skipper, Help for a starveling crew of puppet-souls! Off Libel Bank, beloved by legal kipper, A cable's length from Boredom's unread shoals, Becalmed she lies my strawboard pirate-clipper. Slackly her canvas ...