... THE AMENITIES OF LONDON. iVo II --Two Stalls for To-night The Second of a New Series Dealing with London Life of 1 o-day By ARNOLD PALMES In last week's issue we began publication of a new series on London life by Mr. Palmer The following is the second article of this series its subject is one of great interest to play-going Londoners the choosing of seats at the theatre. When I happened to ...

... By WILLIAM FREEMAN The clock in the bar of the Green Antelope gave its preliminary whirr. Time, gentlemen, hinted Miss Preece, the barmaid. The thin-faced Indian in the corner puc down 111s glass ana gave a suuuen cackling laugh. Time as though you understood even the meaning of the word Teddy Parkin Edwin James Parkin glanced at him suspiciously. Teddy was a small man with a truculent ...

... THE DIAMONDS. A Story of Adventure --contijiued. the theory probably evolved by its subsequent discovery there would be that the man had come back to his native place and had fallen over the wharf, or wherever he might happen to be found, in the darkness or in a state of intoxication but it was also true that some strange things would be said if the body were discovered without a penny in its ...

... THE HISTORY OF DR. SWEETBRIAR. A Short Story in Two Parts By Olive Birrell Dr. Sweetbriar is persuaded by Edward Whitaker, while under hypnotic influence, to write a letter to a firm of lawyers stating he knows of the death of Hugh Watson Neville. Subsequently he becomes a successful nerve specialist, but it is only in sleep that he can remember the name of the lawyers to whom he wrote. He is ...

... UNDER THE CHERRY TREE. 1 I The Japanese Proverb Again Mr. Wantage Throws up his Role of Friend of the Ladies By PETEF. TFAHEE With this sixth article, the series by Mr. Peter Traill comes to an end with, as is only fitting, the marriage of Mr. Wantage as a final episode. Readers who have followed the adventures of Mr. Traill's hero through his various stages of philanderer, man in love, fiance ...

... UNDER THE CHERRY TREE. II. An Evening Out the Further Adventures of Mr. Wantage Amongst the Lotus Eaters By PETEE TEAHEE I was bored; as a rule at half-past eleven at night I am hardly sleepy. But the evening had been a sorry failure, for Lady Anning had disappointed me at the last moment. A solitary dinner had not improved my prospects very much, and a new kalei doscopic novel had rendered me ...

... . By Harry Graham. I had finished luncheon and was sitting, as usual, in a comfortable armchair in the club smoking-room reading my favourite journal and enjoying a cup of coffee. I was especially interested, I remember, in the leading article, a masterly attack upon the financial policy of the Government and on national extravagance generally, for I knew the writer to be a well-known ...

... A GROUP OF QUEER TRADES. No. IV. The Jongleur of Ardmore, with a Black Eye, and a Coat with which Harlequin would have Swept a Gutter By E.TEMFLE TITOBSTGB? (Author of The City of Beautiful Nonsense, A Roof and Four Walls, etc., etc.) With this article Mr. Temple Thurston brings his short series of Queer Trades to a close. For his final subject he has gone to Ireland, telling of his ...

... . By Barry Pain. To-night, as on most nights, Pierre's little restaurant was doing fairly well. It was situated is an unfashionable neighbourhood on the outskirts of London. It was small, but it had grown from a still smaller beginning. A very few years ago its tables had no cloths and its knives had black handles. Now there were table-cloths, table-napkins, floral decorations, red shades, ...

... . A Sttory Iby Ward It was an extraordinary book-- extraordinarily interesting, and extra ordinarily successful. Three continents had been thrilled by it (in the phrase of Mr. Nathan, of the Transoceanic Press Company, who published it, and who wrote its advertisements with his own hands); it had been translated into French, Italian, and Dutch; probably a pirated version had appeared in German ...

... THE HISTORY OF DR. SWEETBRIAR. A Short Story in Two Parts By Olive Birrell Part I. It was in 1915 I first made the acquaintance of Dr. Sweetbriar. We were returning from New York, much harassed by the dread of possible submarines, and a good deal ruffled in temper owing to the folly of some fellow passengers whom we suspected of being pro-Germans. The early hours of dawn were those in which ...

... THE DIAMONDS. A Story of Adventure- -continued. Then he seemed to crumble up like a broken thing, and the men watching him from behind saw his figure sway and stagger until it suddenly dropped in a lifeless mass. EPISODE THE SECOND. CHAPTER VII. The warders, seeing Vassilli stagger and fall, drew near the pile of rocks with leisurely movements. It was enough for them to know the progress of ...