... MISCELLAZVEOUS STORIES IN contrast to the festive tone of light literature during the holiday season just past, most short stories now present the tragic side of life. Take for instance The Chief Justice (Heinemann), a striking work by the Austrian ...

... sufficiency of kaleidoscopic effect to satisfy the most exigent of students. Consequently, in writing of Modern France for the Story of the Nations, series, M. Andrd Lebon had quite the pick of the basketful of subjects. The trouble is that M. Lebon is a ...

... AlISCELLA'N'F OiS STORI/ES THE cheap sensational literature nowy poured forth in such pro- fusi.n does not furnish many grains of wheat amid the bushels of chaff. Excitement is considered more need ul than literary finish and murder, madness,and jealousy ...

... Mr. Laurie certainly fulfils his promise in the preface to make an interesting story, and has at the same time produced a valuable addition to Colonial history. * The Story of Australasia.' By J. S. Laurie (Osgood, Mcilvaioc and Co.). ...

... abg* THE fourth volume of Mr. Laird Clowes's naval history, just issued, covers the most stirring and eventful period in the story of our Navy. It includes the minor actions of the American War, which have never been set forth with so much care and detail ...

... that crowd the pages. The principal poem of the collection, and that which gives its title to' the volume, is The Story of From ?? Story of Rosina.' Pa Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson - Rosina.' The- illustration, Watching the Suspended Cherries ...

... THE STORY OF WATERLOO I. I r was Maid Marion Truthful beat Winning thereby the premier heat. Then l4'itchery Alice Titiens led, Although one course to nothing sped. Rosewssastcr next beat Wateejord As ladies sometimes lead a lord. Middleton won a right ...

... TEE STORY OF' FORBES'S COL UCNV Toe E accompanying sketches, which have just come to hand from Mr. Nangle of the Bechuainaland Border Police illustrate further incidents in the story of Forbes's Column, which in no 'say loses its interest astise wholetaleis ...

... A STORY OF THE DEEP THE watchful women stood at close of day Beside the little churchyard on the height, And saw the ship departing from the bay, With white sails gleaming in the evening light, Bearing their best-beloved ones away, And ever still receding ...

... would say aliot tly, Your last observation was siegularly commottplace, and relapsed itto silettce agail. Hle tells one story of the famous man which mas' be new to some. Once The Council met in solemn conclave, sunimoned the Utmte heretic, as tie ...

... ~te Stoma of ftabetne's Wife* THE story of Mr. Gladstone's life is one of those stories which, more than in the case of almost any other great man, requires writing in the cool, dispassionate light of the future. But it is the fate of celebrities nowadays ...

... outbreak is sketched from the very beginning, when rumours of a rising arose and were discredited, though not disregarded as The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War.' My Winston L. Spencer Churchill. (Longmans, Green, and Co.) warnings ...