VIOLETS--SWEET VIOLETS!
... JIlPllp VIOLETS-- SWEET VIOLETS! PRllI A, 1 Tow 7/A l/K v\ r VTyAvE)]i/W rV fj A Short Story by DORIS E. RYDE f '1 !rl 1 =========j We associate violets, even the violets of the London street-selle ...
... JIlPllp VIOLETS-- SWEET VIOLETS! PRllI A, 1 Tow 7/A l/K v\ r VTyAvE)]i/W rV fj A Short Story by DORIS E. RYDE f '1 !rl 1 =========j We associate violets, even the violets of the London street-selle ...
... IBBI ^0VER TICKET ROMANCE ^^51 Short Story by JAN STRUTHER JE-, :fXcM f A Rover Ticket permits you to Wander around in some of the great houses of amusement we have in London; And thereby comes this ...
... 9 By EDWARD HUTTON. I do not think there can be another twenty miles in all Europe-- certainly there is not in Western Europe-- so crucial as those between Dover and Calais, so crucial in that they separate manners and customs so different, and all that these connote in spiritual and moral energy. We traverse them to-day in a brief hour, and certainly during the last fifteen years or so we ...
... A L L HALL O W S EVE By K. EVEREST. They had been burning nuts, trying old charms, telling ghost stories round the fire in the smoking-room, while the October winds rattled the casements and howled in the old chimneys. A lull followed a particularly grim and ghastly legend, recounted with great gusto by the Irrepressible Youth. Do you believe in spirits returning to earth on 'All Hallows Eve ...
... SB? TWO MINUTES' SILENCE raH £c i A Short Story by MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON IKSWySv U Telling how, in the Great Silence of Armistice Day, at the close of a filrn of a happy wedding. An old Admiral reawak ...
... SOME -NEW NOVELS THE ROOM. By G. B. Stern. (Chapman and Hall.) 7s. fid. THE CONFESSIONS of a WELL-MEANING WOMAN. By Stephen McKenna. (Cassell.) 7s. fid. Thf. Odds, and Other Stories. By Ethel M. Dell. ...
... I Fact and Fiction are happily blended in Sophie Cole's new story. London Vignettes. It is town life of old seen again by created characters of to-day, with fine enthusia ...
... i^Si I X M JM A Short Story by DOUGLAS NEWTON t^mWoS) K ...
... LITTLE LIFE STORIES. By Sir H. H. Johnston. (V.) Old Arthur It you know anything of Shropshire-- the southern part of it-- you know Callers Castle, the Duke of Dumbarton's seat. Its name is pronounced with an œ sound to the first vowel, and has nothing to do with the verb to call. I believe there is a Shropshire dialect word, to cal, but forget what it means. Old Arthur, as he came to be ...
... . By A. G. Thornton. Primarily, of course, pantomimes are for little folks. They only come once a year, and at the children's festival. Hence we older people forego our usual prior claim on the theatre, and hand it over lock and stock to the kiddies. In the main our visit to the pantomime is undertaken in a spirit of hard labour. Taking Henry to his first pantomime, I explained the scheme of ...
... LITTLE GIRLS and SLEEPING ELEPHANTS. From the Russian of ARCADIE AVERTCHENKO. By Scotland Liddell ^[Tlie author of the following short sketch, Arcadia Avertchenko, is the most famous living Russian humorist, whose books before the Revolution had a circulation running into millions. His work has never before appeared in English. The idea of a present-day Russian humorist is in itself a grim ...
... ALONZO I AND THE U INEVITABLE BY I EVERARD CHEYNEY I IT was entirely obvious to everybody who knew Alonzo McTavish that he would eventually end up as a guest in one of His Majesty's prisons. I do not suggest that this know ledge made Alonzo any less popular with any of his rather peculiar friends. It was not so much carelessness as an innate lack of caution which contributed to his downfall, ...