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hoav between two quarters or po. ana fastened 1t up on the snlp mas. and this they did because the pasanS would not touch pork.
 They sailed homeward' ana aitoi caping shipwreck through the ,,ioua intervention of the Saint, they .aochsd Venice on the last day of Jam nary. s27. and Mark soon became the ratron of the republic. The myth, making instinct of the time invehteo 2 nronhecy to show that he had peep rredestined to watch over the Nehe tians. A vineyard near the iateI ehurcb of St. Francis was pointed out .s the very spot on which the Saint' overtaken by storm on his voyage rom Aouileia. had landed. and hao my Christ. who said to him. "Peace to .n Mark my Evangelist. Nenice au"p ed that phrase as her motto anu
 lieved that the incident nao/ 'oD place. ,,. .,r.snt "a receive the adoration of his nock while he lolled invisible In ceiestiai esse He was a doer. a helper. a pen efactor. unceasingly showering ms Ia vors on his chosen flock. Tnrfasn hirn the venetians prospered In tner state and commerce.; he was thslr great ally. insuring victory In war. TIa not only allowed them to deouce his devotion to them through these general results, but he often Vouen safed them special proof Of ms more than paternal care. Alter HIS Do had been brought from AiexanorA y,as mt in the church. mot where eV- srvone knew" says the chronicler. put yeuv nriyately in a certain place. Then ,t banpened that they who knew tne rIace where 1t was put died witnou. ratinR 1t known to others. Wneleat the Venetians grieved sorely, ana they nravsd the Patriarch and Bishops that thev should take means to discover where the body of Monsignor St MaIA was resting. Then Monsignor the triarch caused everyone to fast tnree days on bread and water, and tnereal, Ter thev formed a procession, ana whilst the Patriarch was cnah sns a,, Mass A stone dropped out. of the col ,,nn where Monsignor St. Mark was reposing. Then the Venetians saw the nrecious body of the Evangelist - William Roscoe Thayer in Novemper Lippincott's Magazine.
 Mfr. Roche. a Maker of Kings:
 James Jeffrey Roche. author of the new humorous story Of mucn-maI ried monarch. The Sorrows or sap eo' was reared in Prince Edward lsianu. whither he was brought Tn lnl"nos from Ireland, having been born a' Mountmellick, Queens County. HIS father. Edward Roche. was an accom- nIIshed scholar and teacher, and the son was educated in the school over which he presided. Later young Rocne was given a classical course at St, Dunstan's College, Charlottetown' put his literary bias was evident at an early age. He is the author Of seV- eraI volumes of ballads and songs, ana a life of John Boyle O'Reilly. at whose death MT. Roche succeeded to the eol- torship of The Boston Pilot. He Is al- so the author of two historical vol ymes He became definitely popular 1vhen he wrote Her Majesty the King. which was received with laughter and ann1ause, and The Sorrows of Sap ed Is destined for the same audience. MT. Roche lives at Brookline, Mass
 Evelyn Underhin. author of "The Gray world" is an Englishwoman, ana q. bookbinder by profession, one or her books having been bought by the Hun garian Government for the Nationai Museum at Budapest. Therefore the cbanters in '"The Gray World which
 
 mav he looked upon as substantially accurate. "The Gray World Is the au- thor's first long story. Of 1t she says;
 "In a sense, 1t is a novel with pur- noSe' the purpose being to vindlcate inc point of view of the mystic ana idealist-a point of view which has hitherto been much ridiculed but little defended in fiction. The 'common-sense view of the world is quite as absurd as that of the visionary when looked at with an unprejudiced eye; and the holder thereof Is quite as good a sub feet for satire. My aim in this story has been to exhibit this; to show the world as it appears from the point or view of a convinced idealist who yet retains some sense of humour, and al- so to suggest some of those mystical possibilities which form the back ground of life, in an absolutely realis- tic setting"
 The True Miracle.