... embraces examples of the work of several famous artists, with a description of their methods. “The Man in Moccasins’’ is a short story by James Barr. 'W. W. Jacobs is responsible for “ The Boatswain’s Mate,”” which is as good as any other yarn of his we have ...

... inimitable stories: W. W. Jacobs, W. Pett Ridge, and Arthur Morrison, three of our foremost humorists, each contribute delightfully humorous short stories. “The Lost Bowlers” is a cricket story by P. G. Wodehouse, whilst still another short ...

... conversation betwecn Frince Rupert and the young Duke of Monmouth. In “The Wine-Drinker” Mr W J. Batchelder contributes a short story of the herring fishery. ...

... serial stories, and as many short stories by first-class writers, make up a number of the “Sunday Strand”’ which probably excels anything which even this high-class magazine has ever done. It is always a difficult matter to select any particular story or ...

... advancing further it. was like eleven Goliaths against eleven Davids—for, truth, they grow giants over Hamsey way. make short story it, wo were handsomely beaten, we. to be, but wore by no means disgraced. The St. Mary s teams were :~Goai, j. sioane; backs ...

... Boston, says tbe book is the greatest as it is also the author's latest. Like all American readers he is in favour of the short story as against the full three volume length most favoured in England. As to the Manx setting, the critic says : Tbe close ...

... you see tha force of the illustration ? Sometimes a man's machinery is never right from the hour of his birth. Here is a short story one man tells about himself, which will show what we mean. He says : •' One ship is never weak be- cause another is ; but ...

... ; a hole that lets the cash leak away like water through a sieve, a hole that is the hardest in the world to sew up. A short story will show it best. Drummore South Cottage, Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. September 16th, 1891 Gentlemen,— Fp to 1885 ...

... his youthful mecollections of the incident in “A Blurred Memory of Childhood.”’ “ Countess Berthe’s Dream Melody ”’ is a short “story by M. K. Francis (Mis Blundell).: Verse is represented by Mr Leonard Huxley in “The Pass of the Thousand Steps”’ ; science ...

... Napoleon Few in number mly be. but enough to keep the English drumbeat follow- ing the sun around the world. Here is a short story from an old soldier ; a little about the India:-. Mutiny, mora about another mutiny. He says : In 1354 I enlisted in the ...

... patritisui and courage, but of what use is he iv an army if he cannot carry a musket ? Allow us to ill v trate the point by a short story. Mr John Hudson, now thirty-two years oi age, was born at Warboys, in Huntingdonshire. When he was twenty-five years old ...

... continue the instalments of “Sir John Constantine’ and “The King's Revoke,” while fiction is further represented by a short Indian Mutiny story from the pen of Mr Hugh Clifford, C.M.G., “The Breath upon the Spark.” Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge contributes the ...