... busily engaged preparing a draunatio version of his novel The Little Minister. Mr. Rudyard Kipling has completed a new r short story, in length some 12,000 words, to which d he has given the title of Slaves of the Lamp. C NotwithEtanding precarious health ...

... many would have been glad could he have added a friendly word in favour of the short story, said to be detested by publishers. The immense success of recent books, of short 6torieslgoes to prove that there is popularity for them at the hands of a large ...

... greater works of fiction (savs the Literary World,) Mr. Hatton has furnished his publishers, 3Messrs Hutohinson, with a short story that nomes out on the eve of the General Election. It has what may be called a holiday title, Tom Chester's Sweetheart ...

... MAGAZINES FOR AUGUST. ALECONTINUED.] a The Cornhill Magazine (London: Smith, 5 Elder, and ?? highly dramatic short story, entitled A Cheap Nigger, occupies a r central place in the current month's issue of this magazine. 'Fossil Food, Unarlia- ...

... Y nearly complete, but will not be published for some time. Mr. Rudyard Kipling has just completed the § , MS. of a new short story dealing with Indian n a life, entitled The Tomb of his Ancestors. d We are to have a new Life of Goldsmith x o from Mr ...

... illustrations of Mr. Du it Maurier, The Fire Brigade, giving much s valuable information about the London ser- :e vice; a short story named Mr. Wilmington's IS Garden Party, Big Animals, The Rabbi's a Present - (poetry), and a further instalment ...

... Lily Heenan ; and Jose, Mr. Barton M'Guckin. The titular part of Merrimee's notable little v romance-a precursor of the short story which I several of his compatriots and his and their t followers have imitated with more or less a success-has in its alliance ...

... are described by Amyas Clifford, and a couple of good short stories furnish the light reading. In Cornhill Mr. Bret Harte writes with raciness a brief history of The Rise of the 'Short Story;' and Stephen Gwynn discourses attractively on The ...

... information alternat- ing with pleasant gossip. A portrait and Aketch of Mrs. Gladstone form prominent jeatures, and a short story and a melodious little song make up a number replete with Interest. Mur-ray's Mfaczine.-The place of honour In the present ...

... 'he Grand commences a new story of absorbing in- hon e terst, called Babs the Impossibie. 'The thi ian Queen and the Wounded is an article by wa &rah A. Tooley, with illustrations; Italics wil v. Plungers, a short story, is by E. Livingston Ha ey ...

... FarwelL The stories are short, racy, and well suited for a Christmas magazne. St. NsichoLZ (T. Fisher-Unwin, London) contains even more than its usnal share of interesting contributions. The number opens with the first instalment of a pretty story, by that ...

... been very busy since ted his return to full literary work, supplies Edmund Yates: An Appreciation and a Retrospect. A short story, Giles Dearlove, by Lady Lindsay, and Mr. Gunsberg's chess s completes the recordof an excellent production. ett. A beginning ...