The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-12-23 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

FROM THE MAGAZINES.  -Interesting Selections.  Chief amongst the Imam recelknt things to be found in the January part of •• ono" is a new serial story entitled " A stormy iintoning." by lady N•pier of Ilagalala. The sari°nt aria la's and stones have it high literary flavour shall should were: exemslingly palatable to lovers et goof 1it,411111, Ptatilli. With a liking for the eineanny and supernatural rtinalnl find Plenty to snake their fledi creep in all article embracing a her of weird incider ts. of shieli the fellosing is a selection i—The bleed: stains. like Ramie's: at ilelyrood. still renmin. I aim told that while a lady WUC Siertimig that Mal lot-hi..., her little boy slept in this panelled mom. Ile was left alone during tho evening, and his mother mked him if he had not lasm dull. He replksl. No; a, boy emme to play with me.' Ilia stmeription of that its oohs:ldsi writ a portrait still extant. which is banging over Om drawn:gas:mu mantelpiece, lit another mein of that same manor-house a valet stood on a neekingmhair to hang hunts-If from the rafters of an attic On the anniversary of his suicide there is heard the solowl ef a chair rocking. I heard it myself, but thought it was steam in the wate, pipes. forgetting for the moment that in that inanordonse steam was not used A lady of tide and an imthorem, well lolown in London society arid at all the thoopean Embassies. told me that a friend of lam visittsl that manor-home. While ohing in the drawing.roosa. between six and seven at night. die saw a little old ladv in gray, who re. w.h,tl for an hour quietly beside her, alai it was not till afterwards she found the lady waa an astral cisiter. I sat often from six to seven o'clock. hoping to es: the giaist, but she meor came to an'. A man alio held a high appointment in Cain, that mansion :situ his wife. lie woke at midnight ;and saw a little okl gentfitnad who seemed to emerge front the flooring. He had slimy-gray hair and a mild Iwnignant expression. wilited sadly. nave,l liii hand, and seemed to sleappear into the ficoring again. A second time tin' same old gentlenum appeared tO him. A spiritualist who had visited that manor-house for purposes of psychical research rind me that she temidered the ghost, there quite harmless, as they sere the vietims. net tine perpeectors. of murder. January tfimber sf the " Royal Magazine" mai,- a welcome appoarame, and the Alm:ma:Wm and letterpress should find popular favour with magazine leaders Fiction occupi, a very prominent plam. and it is healthy, readable fiction too, written by the best authors. The story of the Bible Society. as related by Chris. Healy. is very fascinating. and 'almost mark: like a remmime. This society plays a great part in Christianizing tho heathen. aial its ramifications extend all over the world. Some extent of its work may be gleaned from the extract belowi—When it is stated that hen, the headquarters of the British and Foreign Ildsle Society, over 192.500.000 copies of the Scrip. mrs, have been distributed during the last 101 yea, the tremendous significance of these gigantic figures faiks to roach the understanding. It is :osier graspisl when it it raid that the society tin. tributes a Bible every five isSonds of the twenty. fesr hours: and that if one day's output of Bibles 0.•ro pilot on end they wonki make a column 2.500 f, et in height, reckoning but liin. to each copy. sr might pile the throe hightst buildings er 11/ the world on top ad each other. Mill yet :or reach the height attained by the vast pile of .t.t.900 copier: isseril each working :lay. 'lint- wonler grows when we learn that the werld's greatest Ir sik in issned in 390 different forms :d human speech. fifty of which are also available for the blind: slat that enthusiastic translatom are con. tinually reducing to written form languages's-Inch. hitherto, had :AA even an alphabet. The story :if the difficulties which beret the staff of translatom employed by the society can only In- fully realismi by those who have tried to convey ideas and idioms from one language into another.