... this and all the other successful stories, poems, asticles, and essays, will be given in the number itself. The prize for a short story, Irish in subject, has been awarded to A Bogland Grirl. It is a touching story of an Irish peasant girl's sacrifice ...

... readers in touch with German litera- ture; Ignotus, with foreign polities; X Otto Neumana-Hofer, with dramatic afFairs. A short story, in Englisb, French and German, will be published every mouth, The list of contributors includes many of the best-known ...

... foot a new scheme for interesting their readers. They intend publishing a short story each month to be entitled Lippincott Not- able Stories. At the end of the year these stories will be reprinted in a volume, and the royalty on the sale of the book will ...

... promises avfl, though it has developed rather rapidly. 'The Burnt Million, by James Payn, continues nest interesting. The short story, A Silver Locket, is middling. Amongst the descriptive &ricles, The Cider-malers, and Some Royal Parks' are most ...

... include a I descriution of tite Zoolaoical Gardens at Am- sterdmana by Mr C J Cornishl, asisaor of Life aX the Zoo ; a short story, The Hanttod Sck~oter, anaetical tale of ne ?? Seas, t by Mr Hugh Clifford. rritish Reidentat Se Malay State of Pabang; ...

... i e thI publishers insist on us saying tids month after monthl? TINSLE.Y is beyond criticism. Three lnog serials and a short story ; half a dozen efforts at verse and two papers, makeup the number The verses are bad-mere lines: except one, whicvi is pretty ...

... nagezins for- Mayo is sas usual lavish in fine illustrations. The Marquis. of Lorne contributes the openig chapters of: a short .story, Qwee, i3ustrated .by Mnr. 9 Enoch Ward., Mr. Grilant Allenii. (Awo ap. E pears to know all about everythim) turns up ...

... Teflection, if not a nut to crac;k M t these pages. LOST I A. DAY. By Peed C Abliord. Lcndon: I iela and Tier. This is a short story of «asorbiug interest. It is inteizid& to fslustrite the extrwrdinary possi. e bilities of -mesmerist. Its style and atatter ...

... Boidre- :Wood. Short story voluames appear to be growing in public favour. A capital sample of this class of light reading is the - Adventures of Ihrtin Hewitt, Investigator, Third Seriea- (Ward, Locke, and Cu). Here we have a number of stories, including ...

... Road, Ibondosa3 E.C. * 17091 . Mirs MoTuilot; the pife of Mr Fred MIonillat, . of the Theatr Rol, ls# mde her debut as a short story wrte 'With Qoirotos,'^ a brigit tale of ?? cer. e phvsieimns end aurseoni. tied by their own families. f tor indi emuap ...

... 1 r eaders of pure Irish fictiou under her maiden M uam e of Ror, Mulhollaud, ias responsible forone If the ie iding short stories, IA Mother of Emigrants; while the subtle yet warm- N w srtt ed thought of Miss Jane Barlow animnatep t rary nlmjaic, ...

... Charles Dickens is heerd at work in the preparation t a new serial tate in monthly numbers ; and it is net; talihaly that a short story, als i from his pen, will coon ?? in Ilmuseleold Wor'gs. Tiae contemplated union between Mr. Frederick GoDl- hoern (son ...