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is safe (aside) barring about sixty or
seventy bruises.
Mrs. Perkins with faint smile)-
And the shawl strap?
"Yardsley-I want to fasten it around
Teddy's waist, grab hold of the handle
and so hold him up. He's all right, so
don't you worry. exit Mrs Perkins in
search of shawl strap Guess I'd bet
ter not say anything about the Ponds
Extract he told me to bring-doesn't
need it, anyhow. Mans got to get used
to leaving pieces of his ankle bone on
the curbstone If he wants to learn to
ride wheel Only worry her if / asked
her for it-wont hurt him to suffer
week.
Enter Bradley.
"Bradley-Has she come yet?
"Yardsley-No; just gone upstairs for
a shawl strap.
Bradley-Shawl. strap? Who?
Perkins (outside)-Hurry up with
that Ponds Extract will you?
There are three other farces in the
book, all of which will be greatly enjoyed
by that large class of readers to whom
the name of John Kendrick Bangs has
long since grown to be a suggestive syn
onym for mirthful and charming hour.
Mr.. Robert Barr whose latest novel
is "A Woman Intervenes," is a Scotch
man by birth, a Canadian by early as
and an Engllshman by long residence.
He has just returned to London from
Germany, where he has been living in a
castle that was begun in the year 1900.
He took his typewriting machine with him
and has written a fourteenth century ro-
nance, with the castle for background.
| 1t is said that when Mr.. Barr first went
| to London he and Rudyard Kipling lived
| in chambers together.
| Anent Rudyard Kipling, see that up
| on the appearance of a certain pub
lished volume of his and the
publisher to pay large royalties there
| for, that Mr., Kiplng Immediately dis
| owned the book, whatever that may be.
| But who expects the expected of Mr..
| Kipling? AS a reviewer puts 1t, HE is
a veritable study in contradictions"
| A writer pertinently asks of Anthony
| Hope Stanley Weyman and Du Maurier
who are the literary lions of the hour. II
| they are great enough to shed light on
this era in the world of letter as it shall
| be studied by posterity? Or is this gen.
| Grafton of fiction writers to be repre-
| sented in the future by dark blank, UNI
lit by spark of greatness?
Robert w Chambers. in his romance
1.-THE Red Republic has chosen for the
scene of his story the stormy days of the
| Commune, when Paris. just freed from
| the German occupation, was rent with
| civil conflict. This was a stormy and in
| sane period and the idyllc love story of
| the young American artist, Philip
Landes and the beautiful Jeanne de
| Brassac has fitting and strong back
| ground in the events of battle, murder
and rapine which are so interestingly re-
lated.
| Mr. Chambers new story Is entitled "A
| King and Few Dukes" and will be pub
| lished this month. The romance, it is
said, might be described as combna-
| ton of love, war and bears, but will nc
| doubt form very delightful reading.
| 1t is announced that there will be a
| new volume of biographical studies OF
nineteenth century literature. by Mr.. Ed
| mund Gosse, to be entitled Critical Kit
| Cats" Among the writers treated are
| Edward Fitzgerald, Walt Whitman, Lord
| de Tabley, R. L. Stevenson, Christina
| Rossetti and Walter Pater Literary
| studies by Mr.. Gosse are always appre-
ciated by large class of readers. The
author must be trying, thoughato catch
the attention of the unwary by his title
/ this time. PAUL PRY.