... By Daisy Mace Fdgietont. George stood outside the workhouse gates with his mother, waiting to go in for the night. He was tall for eleven, and the old suit that charity had bestowed upon him a year ago was small for him now and hung in strips everywhere. The autumn evening was coldly raw. With one blue hand, George clasped his mouth organ, and on it played a little tune. The rich man, coming ...

... TYPES OF MODERN SOCIETY. A Series of Satirical Portraits of London Types. V. The Ever Hopeful Spinster (GeiPSilldl CUM BE BEAM A bachelor, it may be said with truth, is a bachelor from choice; a spinster is what she is from necessity. Not that Grace Tolerant has ever admitted the truth of the statement. Indeed, it is her habit of mind to admit nothing; more compromis ing than the state of the ...

... 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 ...

... By MARKSMAN A Tale of a Night's Adventure Ending in Love at First Sight. Ted Gerringham pulled up the collar of his overcoat and strode away from the precincts of Fleet Street swiftly. He felt that he did not want to see the street of journalism again-- at least that night, for it had failed him. Moreover it had failed him in an hour when he particularly needed the gold that flowed from its ...

... MALOCCHIO I The Power of the Evil Eye. By EDWARD HUTTON, who has Just Returned from Italy So you do not believe in the Evil Eye? I did not answer, if for no other reason but that I was out of breath. Two minutes before we had been sitting at a little table in the Piazza drinking vermouth and seltzer, like a couple of hundred other people on that hot autumn evening, and then suddenly every ...

... 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 ...

... Travel Hodes airadl Hews .A Few Items of Interest for the Traveller Abroad DATE FOR OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY FIXED.-- The 1930 performances of the famous Oberammergau Passion Play will begin on May 15 and continue until September 30. One performance a week is planned for May, June, and September, and two each week in July and August. Performances will begin at 8 a.m. and last until 6 p.m. ...