Chapter II: Part 2

Ill? Not he. He never was better in his life. He had merely been on a motor tour with his mother.

"Do you mean to say," someone inquired--an equally elderly member--almost with anger, certainly with a kind of outraged surprise, "that you have a mother still living?"

"Of course I have," said the Man of God. "My mother is not only living but is in the pink of condition."

"And how old is she?" the questioner continued.

"She is ninety-one," said the Archdeacon proudly.

Most of us looked at him with wonder and respect--even a touch of awe.

"And still motoring!" I commented.

"She delights in motoring."

"Well," said the angry man, "you needn't be so conceited about it. You are not the only person with an aged mother. I have a mother too."

We switched round to this new centre of surprise. It was more incredible that this man should have a mother even than the Archdeacon. No one had ever suspected him of anything so extreme, for he had a long white beard and hobbled with a stick.

"And how old may your mother be?" the Archdeacon inquired.

"My mother is ninety-two."

"And is she well and hearty?"

"My mother," he replied, "is in rude health--or, as you would say, full of beans."

The Archdeacon made a deprecatory movement, repudiating the metaphor.

"She not only motors," the layman pursued, "but she can walk. Can your mother walk?"

"I am sorry to say," said the Archdeacon, "that my mother has to be helped a good deal."

"Ha!" said the layman.

"But," the Archdeacon continued, "she has all her other faculties. Can your mother still read?"

"My mother is a most accomplished and assiduous knitter," said the bearded man.

"No doubt, no doubt," the Archdeacon agreed; "but my question was, Can she still read?"

"With glasses--yes," said the other.

"Ha!" exclaimed the Archdeacon, "I thought so. Now my dear mother can still read the smallest print without glasses."

We murmured our approval.

"And more," the Archdeacon went on, "she can thread her own needle."

We approved again.

"That's all very well," said the other, "but sight is not everything. Can your mother hear?"

"She can hear all that I say to her," replied the Archdeacon.

"Ah! but you probably raise your voice, and she is accustomed to it. Could she hear a stranger? Could she hear me?"

Remembering the tone of some of his after-lunch conversations I suggested that perhaps it would be well if on occasions she could not. He glowered down such frivolousness and proceeded with his cross-examination. "Are you trying to assure us that your mother is not in the least bit deaf?"

"Well," the Archdeacon conceded, "I could not go so far as to say that her hearing is still perfect."

The layman smiled his satisfaction. "In other words," he said, "she uses a trumpet?"

The Archdeacon was silent.

"She uses a trumpet, Sir? Admit it."

"Now and then," said the Archdeacon, "my dear mother has recourse to that aid."

"I knew it!" exclaimed the other. "My mother can hear every word. She goes to the theatre too. Now your mother would have to go to the cinema if she wished to be entertained."

"My mother," said the Archdeacon, "would not be interested in the cinema" (he pronounced it ki-neema); "her mind is of a more serious turn."

"My mother is young enough to be interested in anything," said the other. "And there is not one of her thirty-eight grandchildren of whose progress she is not kept closely informed."

He leaned back with a gesture of triumph.

"How many grandchildren did you say?" the Archdeacon inquired. "I didn't quite catch."

"Thirty-eight," the other man replied.

Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread. "My mother," he said, "has fifty-two grandchildren. And now," he turned to me, "which of us would you say has won this entertaining contest?"

"I should not like to decide," I said. "I am--fortunately perhaps for your mothers--no Solomon. My verdict is that both of you are wonderfully lucky men."

E.V.L.

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_Sympathetic Friend._ "WELL, AND HOW ARE YOU?"]

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A KNOWING OLD BIRD.

"Grey African Parrot ... every question fully answered; £10 or offers."
--_Weekly Paper._

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)

We have had to wait four years for the concluding volumes of _The Life of Benjamin Disraeli_ (MURRAY), but, as the engaged couple said of the tunnel, "it was worth it," for in the interval Mr. BUCKLE has been able to enrich his work with a wealth of new material. This includes DISRAELI'S correspondence with QUEEN VICTORIA during his two Premierships, and the still more remarkable letters that he wrote to the two favoured sisters, ANNE, Lady CHESTERFIELD, and SELINA, Lady BRADFORD, during the last eight years of his life. To one or other of them he wrote almost every day, and from the sixteen hundred letters that have been preserved Mr. BUCKLE has selected with happy discretion a multitude of passages which throw a vivid light upon the political events of the time and upon DISRAELI'S own character. Whereas the first four volumes of the biography might be likened to a good sound Burgundy, thanks to these letters the last two sparkle and stimulate like a vintage champagne. As we read them we seem to be present at the scenes described, to overhear the discussions at the Cabinet, to catch a glimpse of the actors _en déshabillé_. Mr. BUCKLE says that "Disraeli, from first to last, regarded his life as a brightly tinted romance, with himself as hero." In one of his letters to Lady BRADFORD he says, "I live for Power and the Affections." A poseur, no doubt, he was, but not a charlatan. His industry was amazing and his insight almost uncanny. "I know not why Japan should not become the Sardinia of the Mongolian East," he writes in 1875. To the political student these Volumes will be almost as fruitful a field as BURKE; for myself, I have found them more fascinating than any novel.

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It seams a great pity that Mr. KIPLING'S _Letters of Travel_ (MACMILLAN) contains nothing later than 1913. It would have been particularly interesting to see how far the events of the great tragedy might have modified or aggravated his scorn against those who do not see eye to eye with him. In the pre-war KIPLING, as we have him here, "Labour" is always the enemy, "Democracy" the hypocritical cant of cranks and slackers. What do they know of England who only KIPLING know? Well, they know one side of it, and a fine side. The first sheaf of letters--"From Tideway to Tideway (1892)"--describes a tour through America and Canada, with a rather too obvious bias against the habits and institutions of the former, but with so eloquent a presentation of the dream and fact of imperial pioneering service that it might draw even from a Little Englander, "Almost thou persuadest me!" "Letters to the Family" deals with the Canada of 1907, a very different entity from the Canada of to-day after the later Imperial Conferences and five years' trial of war, but none the less interesting to hear about. A voyage in 1913, undertaken "for no other reason but to discover the sun," is the begetter of the third group, "Egypt and the Egyptians," the first letter of which will not, I imagine, be reprinted and framed by the P. and O. Brilliant word-pictures of things seen, thumbnail sketches of odd characters, clever records of remembered speech, intelligent comment from a well-defined point of view--these you will have expected, and will get.

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Lady DOROTHY MILLS, who has already made some success as a holder of the mirror up to a certain section of ultra-smart society, continues this benevolent work in her new novel, _The Laughter of Fools_ (DUCKWORTH). It is a clever tale, almost horridly well told, about the war-time behaviour of the rottenest idle-rich element, in the disorganised and hectic London of 1917-18. Perhaps the observation is superficial; but, just so far as it pretends to go, Lady DOROTHY'S method does undoubtedly get home. Her heroine, _Louise_, is a detestable little egoist, whose vanity and entire lack of _moral_ render her an easy victim to the vampire crowd into which she drifts. The "sensation" scenes, night club orgies, dope parties and the like will probably bring the book a boom of curiosity; but there are not wanting signs, in the author's easy unforced method, that with a larger theme she may one day write a considerably bigger book. _The Laughter of Fools_, one may say, ends tragically; _Louise_, after exhausting all her other activities, being left about to join a nursing expedition to Northern Russia. Which, judging by previous revelations of her general incompetence, is where the tragedy comes in--for the prospective patients. A moral rather carefully unmoralised is how I should sum up an unpleasant but shrewdly written tale.

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To _The Diary of a U-Boat Commander_ (HUTCHINSON) "ETIENNE" adds an introduction and some explanatory notes. In one of these notes we are told that the Diary was left in a locker when the Commander handed over his boat to the British. We are all at liberty to form any opinion we like on the use made of this Diary and I am not going to reveal mine. For, after all, it is the book itself--however produced--that matters, and even those of us who are getting a little shy of literature connected with the War will find something original and intriguing in this Diary. With what seems to me unnecessary frankness the publisher refers to the Commander's "incredible exploits and adventures on the high seas." For my own part my powers of belief in regard to the War are almost unlimited, and the only thing that really staggers me here is the mentality of the diarist. From the record of his purely private life, which is also exposed in these pages, I gather that he was as unfortunate in love as in war; but he seems to have loved with a whole-hearted passion that goes far to redeem him. I must add a word of praise for Mr. FRANK MASON'S illustrations, which contributed generously to my entertainment.

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_Roxana._ "OH, NONSENSE, ALEC! THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO. I WISH YOU'D GO INTO THE KITCHEN AND DISCHARGE THAT CAPPADOCIAN COOK. SHE DRINKS."]

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AN OPEN LETTER TO FRANCE.

Mr. Punch had kissed the lady's hand and she had smiled upon him very graciously, for they were old friends.

"I have brought you a letter from myself," he said.

"Shall I read it while you wait?" said Madame la France.

"Please, no. I never read my contributors' compositions in their presence. It is embarrassing to both sides. And I want you to take your time over this one, and consider carefully whether it is suitable for publication in your Press. I have enclosed a stamped and addressed envelope, to be utilized in the event of your deciding to return my communication with regrets. In any case I propose to publish it in my own paper, _The London Charivari_."

[_Here begins the letter_:--

"NEAREST AND DEAREST OF ALLIES.--You and I (I speak for my country, though I have not been asked to do so) have gone through so much together that it would be an infinite pity if any misunderstanding were suffered to cloud our friendship for want of a little candour on my part. No _Entente_ can retain its cordiality without mutual candour; and hitherto the reticence has been all on our side.

"Not when your splendid courage and your noble sacrifices gave us a theme; then we were always frankly loud in our admiration; but when we reflected upon what I may venture to call your faults and failings. Whatever we may have thought about them during all those terrible years, you will find in our public statements no note of criticism and not a single word that did not breathe a true loyalty. You too were generous in your praise of us when we won battles; and at the end, with your own FOCH for witness, you were quick to recognise what part we played in those great Autumn days that brought the crowning victory. But it almost looks as if your memory of our brotherhood in arms were beginning to fail; as if we, who were then hailed as your 'glorious Ally,' were about to resume our old name--it has already been revived in some quarters--of 'Perfide Albion.'

"Oh, I know that the best of France is loyal to us; that her true chivalry understands. But what of your public that is all ear for the so-called _Echo de Paris_, with its constant incitement to jealousy and suspicion of England? What of your second-rate Press and its pin-pricking policy, connived at, if not actually encouraged, by your Government?

"Of course I recognise that you never really liked the idea of all those British soldiers making themselves at home in your country, though they did it as nicely as it could be done, and made hosts of friends in the process. I can believe that we should not have been too well pleased at having a like number of French troops established between Dover and London. I don't say we should have charged you rent for every yard of their trenches or claimed heavy damages for any injury they might have done to our roads in the course of defending the Metropolis from our common enemy. But we certainly should not have been depressed when we found that they needn't stay any longer. Still I hope we should have registered on the tablets of our hearts a permanent record indicating that we appreciated their friendliness in coming to our support.

"But I am told that the secret of the present attitude of our French critics is that they cannot forgive us for having used the soil of France in order to defend our own. Is this quite fair or even decent? Let me refresh their memory of the motive that brought us into this War. The true motive was not to be found in the duty imposed upon us by Germany's breach of the Belgian Treaty, though that in itself furnished us with an unanswerable reason. The true motive was our desire to help you. We had nothing in those days to fear for ourselves. We knew that our Fleet was strong enough to protect our own shores. We had not yet appreciated the submarine menace; we did not recognise what your loss of the Channel ports might mean for us. We entered the War because we could not look on and see you overwhelmed.

"You complain, again, that, in contrast to yourselves, we have got all we wanted out of the War. As a fact we wanted nothing; but let that pass. You point to the destruction of the German Fleet as if it were a private gain for us and us alone, and not the removal of a danger to the whole world. And what of the German armies--now in process of reduction to a mere police force? Did you derive no advantage from the overthrow of a system which was always a greater menace to you than the German Fleet ever was to us? And, though we did not pretend to be a military nation, had we not some little share in that achievement?

"And what of your _revanche_? How do the German Colonies, which we have freed and now hold in trust--how do these compare with your solid recovery of Alsace-Lorraine? No, you have not come badly out of Armageddon.

"Oh, you have suffered, that we know; you have suffered even more than we, who at least were spared the ravaging of our lands. And never for a moment do we forget this. But you too must not forget that where the soil of France suffered most there thickest lie our English dead, who fought for England's freedom, yes, but for your freedom too. And it is we who stand by you still, pledged to be once more at your side if the same peril ever come again; though America, for whom nothing was once too good, should fail you in your need.

"There, I have said what I wanted to say; what your best friends here have been thinking this many a day. For your best friends are not, as you might imagine, to be found in a certain section of our Press who for their own political or private ends are prepared to encourage all your suspicions if so they may injure the good name of our statesmen who meet you in council for the common cause. Your best friends are the men who deplore those suspicions; who beg you, as I do here, to get them swept away as being unworthy of a great nation and a great alliance.

"For this end, Believe me, dear Madame, to be at your service as always,

"PUNCH."

_Here ends the letter._]

"And now, dear lady," said Mr. Punch, "let me say that, if there is anything in this letter which seems--but only on the surface--to be inconsistent with my profound devotion to your person, it is the first word of the kind that I have put on paper since our friendship began. All through the War and the hardly less trying times of Peace that have followed it I have not once swerved from my loyalty to you. Accept, I beg of you, the renewed assurance of my affection the most sincere, and, for token, this latest of a series in which you will find many proofs of the love I bear you--my

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHTH VOLUME."

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CARTOONS.

PARTRIDGE, BERNARD
Air-Craftiness, 471
Another Reservation, 111
Blameless Accomplice (The), 511
Dark Horse (A), 431
Exit the Ministering Angel, 371
Forgotten Cause (The), 211
Great Improviser (The), 451
His First Patient, 491
Homage from the Brave, 391
Hope of the World (The), 271
In a Cushy Cause, 331
International Eurhythmics, 151
Kindest Cut of All (The), 191
Levy on Patriotism (A), 291
Limit--and Beyond (The), 411
Occasional Comrades, 251
Reckoning (The), 351
Restoring the Balance, 311
Return of the ex-Champion (The), 171
Rouge Gagne, 71
Test of Sagacity (A), 131
Unpopular Revival (An), 231
Woman of Some Importance (A), 91

RAVEN-HILL, L.
Conscientious Burglar (The), 103
Converted Spirit (A), 183
Dachswolf (The), 243
Direct Reaction, 463
Disturber of the Peace (A), 323
Downing Street Melodrama (A), 83
Elusive Pest (The), 163
Even-handed Justice, 51
Expert Opinion, 363
From Triumph to Triumph, 343
Heir-Presumptive (The), 31
His Own Business, 403
Irremovables (The), 143
Lovers' Quarrels, 303
Midsummer Nightmare (A), 483
More Haste--Less Meat, 443
New Coalition (The), 123
Paradise Lost Again?, 503
Popular Reappearance (A), 63
Reluctant Thruster (The), 383
St. Patrick's Day Dream (A), 203
Sounding the "All Clear", 11
What's in a Name?, 223
Withdrawal from Moscow (The), 283

REYNOLD, FRANK
"Positively Last" Appearance (A), 3

TOWNSEND, F.H.
Another Turkish Concession, 23
Envoys Extraordinary, 423
"Oliver 'Asks' for More", 263
"Wanted", 43

ARTICLES.

ANDERSON, MISS E.V.M.
Tragedy of an Author's Wife, 66

ATKEY, BERTRAM
Best of Things (The), 94

BIRD, A.W.
Bridge Notes, 304
Conspiracy, 376
Domestic Strategy, 130
Poisson d'Avril, 274

BRAHMS, MISS M.
Egoist (The), 34
Riding Lesson (The), 76

BRETHERTON, CYRIL
Charivaria, weekly
Guinea-pigs, 98
To Jessie, 198
To my Butter Ration, 70

BROWN, C.L.M.
Our Invincible Navy, 24
What of the Dumps?, 218
With the Auxiliary Patrol, 62

BROWN, HILTON
Cutchery Cats, 438
Demobbed, 258
Home Thoughts from Hind, 86
Labuntur Anni, 286

BULLETT, GERALD
Exile (The), 96

BURTON, C.E.
Flat to Let (A), 222

BYLES, C.E.
Analgesia, 434
Tale of the Tuneful Tub (The), 78
To a Dentist, 409
To the New Policeman, 449

CARTER, DESMOND
Spring Song (A), 250

CASSON, C.R.
Coward (The), 144
Indiarubber Bloke (The), 254
Much the Better Half, 408
My Début in _Punch_, 49
On Approval, 444
Peace with Honour, 288

CASSON, E.K.
Anniversary (The), 186
Cap that Fits (The), 433

CHANDLER, MISS B.W.
Fancy Bird (A), 174

CLARK, DUDLEY
Small Farm (A), 395

COLLINS, GILBERT
Questionable Alien (The), 13

CONRAN, E.D.
On the Western Front, 298

COXON, MAJOR A.M.
Popular Cricket, 510

CRAWFORD, L.J.
Liar's Masterpiece (A), 382
Rates of Exchange, 216

CUNDY, C.W.
All for Jane, 344
Another Dog Dispute, 464
Chippo's Scenario, 290
Conflict of Emotions (A), 108
Inter-Service Match (An), 228
Limpet of War (A), 64
Mardi Gras, 126
Newspaper Scoop (A), 8
Smuggler (The), 45
Sporting Golf, 84
Won on the Posts, 184

DARMADY, E.S.
Burial of Dundee (The), 53
Error of Judgment at Epsom, 435

DAVIS, R.K.
Shakspeare the Traducer, 58

DRENNAN, MAX
Little Tales for Young Plumbers, 86
Our Ballybun Lottery, 42
Rise and Fall of an Amateur Examiner (The), 244

EASTWOOD, CAPT.
King's Regulations, para. 1696, 362

ECKERSLEY, ARTHUR
Dram. Bac., 236
Witchcraft, 198

ELIAS, FRANK
Author-Managers (The), 366
Shattered Romances, 128

FARJEON, MISS E.
Two Nightmares, 106

FAY, S.J.
Authorship for All, 462, 486
Billiards, 46
Bunch of Poets (A), 6
Dora at the Play, 186
Golden Geese, 75
Great Mutton Campaign (The), 218
My Fire, 28
Rings from Saturn, 104
Seaside Issues, 248
Suzanne's Banking Account, 168
Taking of Timothy (The), 327
Wolf and the Lamb (The), 142

FOX-SMITH, MISS C.
Figure-Heads, 386
Packet Rat (The), 266
Pictures, 110
So Long, 44
Tow-rope Girls (The), 350
Witches, 156
Words of Wisdom, 10

FYLEMAN, MISS ROSE
Fairy Ball (The), 389
Devil in Devon (The), 418
Sometimes, 476
Visit (The), 300

FYSON, G.F.
Communism at Cambridge, 390

GARSTIN, CROSBIE
Cornish Cottage (A), 466
Cornish Lullaby (A), 509
Fixes the Hare, 88
George and the Cow-Dragon, 164
Insomniac (The), 124
Jumble Sale (The), 68
Letter to the Back-Blocks (A), 16
Madding Crowd (The), 305
Maiden's Bower Rocks, Scilly, 486
Painful Subject (A), 26
Western Light-houses, 456

GILLMAN, CAPT. W.H.
More Championships, 77

GOODHART, MRS. H.
Bird Calls, 317, 356, 396

GRAHAM, R.D.C.
Loquacious Instinct (The), 448

GRAVES, C.L.
Animal Helps, 15
Books and Backs, 78
Bridging the Literary Gulf, 396
Bubble and Squeak, 215
Candour of Keynes (The), 33
Easter in Wild Wales, 278
"First Hundred" of Loeb (The), 7
Freud and Jung, 193
From the Dance World, 310
From the Film World, 510
Future of Apsley House (The), 475
How to Pacify Ireland, 458
Magnanimous Mottoes, 418
Methodic Madness, 436
Modern Moon-rakers, 58
Musical Amenities, 96
Musical Notes, 496
New Courtiership (The), 514
New Isle of the Blest (A), 154
Paradise of Bards (The), 478
Reds and Dark Blues, 246
Revolt of the Super-Georgians, 118
Screen _v._ Stage, 256
Storm in a Tea-Shop (A), 129
Tall Talk, 322
Wanderer in Norfolk (The), 296
Wizards: Klingsor and Another, 166

GREENLAND, GEORGE
Best Picture in the Academy, 402

GUEST, O.H.
Tartar Princess (The), 406

HERBERT, A.P.
About Bathrooms, 244
Art of Poetry (The), 426, 446, 482
Boat-Race Again (The), 208
Dog's Life (A), 508
Genius of Mr. Bradshaw (The), 226
Little Bits of London, 284, 334, 468
Making of a Crisis (The), 388
Manual Play, 366
Tools of Trade, 264

HEYER, GEORGE
Getting Fixed, 488
Practice of the Crews (The), 226

HODGKINSON, T.
Another Post-office Hold-up, 476
Big-Game Cure (The), 113
Hope for Posterity, 96
Safety Play, 324
Second Time of Asking (The), 210
This for Remembrance, 294
To a Coming Champion, 370
To James (Mule) who has Played me False, 166
Tube Cure (The), 6

HOLLAND, T.W.
Day by Day in the World Of Crime, 149

HOLMES, CAPT. W.K.
Personal Element at a Motor Show (The), 242
Yeoman Transformed (The), 218

HOOPER, R.S.
Hints on Advertising, 338

JACKSON, WILFRID
Palace and the Cottage (The), 378

JAGGER, ARTHUR
Connoisseur (The), 338
One Sportsman to Another, 406

JAY, THOMAS
Charivaria, weekly
Etiquette for Fires, 266
How to act in Emergencies, 113
Passing of the Litter (The), 55

JENKINS, ERNEST
Actress (The), 258
Another Crisis, 38
By the Stream, 298
Film Notes, 158
New Appeal (The), 122

JENNENS, MRS.
Le Monde où l'on travaille, 342

KIDD, A.
More Intensive Production, 115
Our Day of Unrest, 30

KILPATRICK, MRS.
Elizabeth and her Young Man, 348
Elizabeth's Tip for the Derby, 428
My Sales Day, 30
Party Tactics, 268

KNOX, E.V.
Amalgamated Society of Passengers (The), 134
Book of Adventure (The), 46
Brain Wave (The), 456
Capua, 470
Coalition of 1950 (The), 189
Dead Tree (The), 150
Der Tag Once More, 366
Domestic Problem (The), 22
Fair Wear and Tear, 202
Fame, 178
Hampstead, 404
Home-Sickness, 386
Labour and Art, 93
Labour and the Russian Ballet, 286
National Coal, 246
New Modes for Mars, 485
Note on Chesterfields (A), 504
Note to Nature (A), 237
Possession, 262
Practical Zoology, 430
Priscilla Dialogue (A), 466
Raw Soul Stuff, 494
Sorrows of a Super-Profiteer, 66
Spring at Kew, 318
Vanished Species (A), 326
Vermin Offensive (A), 106
When the Chestnut Flowers, 346

LANGLEY, F.O.
Cox and Box, 146
Last of the Watch Dogs (The), 224
Songs of the Home, 14, 78, 207

LETTS, MISS W.M.
Elfin Tube (The), 486

LEWIS, M.A.
Genius at Play, 365
Incorrigible (The), 158
Presence of Mind, 295

LIPSCOMB, W.P.
Peter and Judy, 114
Telephone Tactics, 306

LOCKER, W.A.
Essence of Parliament, weekly

LUCAS, E.V.
Battle of the Mothers (The), 514

MARTIN, N.R.
Buy Election (A), 195
Great Divorce Question (The), 416
How to gain a Journalistic Position, 2
My One Admirer, 278

MITCHELL, E.W.
Golf Notes, 188

MORRISON, A.C.L.
Identification of Hobbs (The), 302

MURRAY, JOHN
Auction in the Spacious Times, 162
Importunity, 496

NORRISS, CECIL
Charivaria, weekly

OGILVIE, W.H.
Single Hound (A), 134

PALMER, ARNOLD
High-brows, Ltd., 355

PAYNE, MISS D.M.
Jazzerwocky, 26

PIGOTT, E.W.
Saturdays, 75

RICHARDSON, R.J.
Holiday Anticipations, 502
Serene Batsman (The), 422

RIGBY, REGINALD
Moo-Cow (The), 73
On the Eating of Asparagus, 502
Perfect Scullery (The), 416
What-Not (The), 17

SALVIDGE, STANLEY
Latest Party (The), 235

SEAMAN, OWEN
At the Play, 18, 36, 116, 136, 156, 276, 316, 498
Benefits of Peace (The), 42
Clothes and the Poet, 142
Fashions for Men, 22
Healing Waters of Spa (The), 342
Junker Interlude (A), 222
Liberal Breach (The), 382
May-Week, 462
Men and Things of the Moment, 182
Nature and Art, 2
"New" World (The), 202
Odysseus at the Derby, 422
Of certain Brutuses who missed their Mark, 82
On the Italian Riviera, 302
Open Letter to France (An), 517
Paisley to the Rescue of the Coalition, 162
Selfless Party (A), 122
Summer-time, 242
Sweet Influences of Trade (The), 62
Thoughts on the Budget, 322
To a Bricklayer in Repose, 362
To America, 102
"University Intelligence", 442
Virtue that begins away from Home (The), 402
Wisdom up to date--12th Edition, 282

SIEVEKING, G.E.
Story with a Point (A), 122

SOLOMON, G.G.
"Small Ads.", 102

STANHOPE, E.V.
Vers très libre, 262

STUART, MISS D.M.
For Remembrance, 450
Sussex Gods, 346

SYMNS, J.M.
Water-Babies, 118

TALBOT, A.J.
Dead Sea Fruit, 154
New Wells for Old, 1
Perce Murgatroyd, Bricklayer, 455
Trying Day in Mediæval Times, 322
Word-Builders (The), 296

TALBOT, MISS ETHEL
Why the Sparrow lives in the Town, 38

TAYLOR, P.
Country Night Piece (A), 326

THORP, JOSEPH
At the Play, 116, 136, 156, 176, 236, 276, 336, 398, 438

WHEELWRIGHT, J.E.
Our "Dumb" Pets Bureau, 257

WHITE, E.P.
Aural Tuition, 386
Connoisseur's Appreciation (A), 442
Essentials of Golf (The), 490
Life, 56
Labour-Saving, 506
Persistence of the Military, 476
Winter Sport in the Lower Alps, 204

WOODWARD, MARCUS
Meeting the Countess, 410

WYNDHAM-BROWN, W.F.
Dedications, 506

YONGE, REV. G.V.
Hound-Foxes 206

PICTURES AND SKETCHES.

ARMOUR, G.D., 14, 39, 59, 79, 95, 117, 138, 159, 179, 199, 219, 238, 279,
315, 375, 399, 445, 478, 494

BAUMER, LEWIS, 7, 30, 50, 70, 87, 110, 150, 167, 197, 230, 267, 330, 447,
490

BENNETT, FRED, 468, 481

BIRD, W., 8, 28, 48, 76, 88, 108, 128, 148, 168, 188, 208, 228, 248,
268, 295, 316, 341, 361, 388, 480, 501

BROCK, H.M., 129, 244, 274, 298

BROOK, RICARDO, 68

BUTCHER, A., 20

CHENEY, LEO, 433

COTTRELL, TOM, 214, 229, 256, 349, 419, 499, 509

DIXON, G.S., 441

DOWD, J.H., 29, 53, 216, 294, 297, 327, 368, 405, 421, 461, 508

EARNSHAW, HAROLD, 281

EDWARDS, LIONEL, 259

EVANS, TREYER, 280

FERRIER, ARTHUR, 140

"FOUGASSE", 13, 21, 37, 57, 69, 97, 114, 130, 161, 201, 221, 288, 357,
379, 417, 437, 477

FRASER, PETER, 41, 93, 160, 225, 234, 320, 340, 358, 378, 428, 434

GAMMON, REG., 209

GHILCHIK, D.L., 141

GRAVE, CHARLES, 41, 85, 115, 205, 265, 285, 345, 394, 408, 414, 425, 459,
485

HARRISON, CHARLES, 157, 194

HASELDEN, W.K., 18, 36, 116, 136, 156, 276, 336, 398, 438, 498

HENRY, THOMAS, 475

HOWELLS, W.A., 176, 241

JENNIS, G., 77, 255, 319, 404, 515

LLOYD, A.W., 133, 153, 154, 173, 174, 193, 213, 233, 253, 254, 273, 313,
333, 334, 353, 354, 373, 393, 413, 453, 473, 493, 512, 513

MILLS, A. WALLIS, 25, 49, 74, 94, 109, 125 147, 175, 185, 207, 239, 245,
270, 287, 317, 325, 347, 387, 418, 429, 457, 465, 484, 504

MORELAND, ARTHUR, 24

MORROW, GEORGE, 9, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 121, 155, 180, 181, 220, 240,
260, 261, 300, 308, 338, 360, 377, 397, 400, 420, 430, 448, 474, 488,
516

NORRIS, ARTHUR, 119, 500

PARTRIDGE, BERNARD, 1

PEDDIE, 514

PETT, NORMAN, 58, 381, 440

PRANCE, BERTRAM, 33, 61, 165, 200, 299, 305, 321, 348, 359, 415, 460

RAVEN-HILL, L., 19, 75, 135, 169, 215, 250, 261, 310, 374, 401, 454, 513,
518

REYNOLDS, FRANK, 17, 34, 44, 67, 84, 104, 137, 144, 164, 184, 204, 237,
247, 277, 284, 304, 324, 344, 364, 384, 407, 427, 450, 464, 497, 507

SHEPARD, E.H., 15, 47, 99, 127, 190, 227, 337, 389, 479, 487

SHEPPERSON, C.A. 27, 107, 187, 307, 367, 467

SMITH, A.T. 101, 149

SPEED, LANCELOT, 301, 455

STAMPA, G.L., 5, 54, 89, 105, 124, 177, 196, 217, 235, 257, 269, 289,
314, 329, 355, 369, 395, 439, 458, 469, 489, 510

TERRY, STAN., 98

THOMAS, BERT, 4, 35, 45, 65, 145, 195, 293, 328, 339, 354, 365, 385, 410,
424, 449

TOWNSEND, F.H. 10, 55, 73, 90, 113, 139, 170, 189, 210, 224, 249, 275,
290, 309, 335, 350, 370, 390, 409, 435, 444, 470, 495, 505

WARDEN, A.H., 81

WHITE, DYKE, 38