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ll the knowledge of good and evil that God had perhaps given her, but that no one had ever thought of developing. I shall always remember her, as she passed along the boulevards almost every day at the same hour, accompanied by her mother as assiduously as a real mother might have accompanied her daughter. I was very young then, and ready to accept for myself the easy morality of the age. I remember, however, the contempt and disgust which awoke in me at the sight of this scandalous

looking as though it had been but just torn off. One side of the paper was entirely blank -- or at least, if there ever had been any writing upon it, it had disappeared through the influence of time and damp; on the other were some blurred and indistinct characters, so faded as to be scarcely distinguishable, and, in a bold hand-writing in fresh black ink the two letters Ra.Since the ink with which these letters were written corresponded exactly with that which I was in the habit of using, I

ig chief, went on Jones, me go far north--Land of LittleSticks--Naza! Naza! rope musk-ox; rope White Manitou of GreatSlave Naza! Naza!Naza! replied the Navajo, pointing to the North Star; no--no. Yes me big paleface--me come long way toward setting sun--gocross Big Water--go Buckskin--Siwash--chase cougar. The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajoshold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great SlaveIndians the musk-ox. No kill cougar, continued Jones, as the Indian's

ied; in which the narrator of the tale finds himself unexpectedly involved both on its ruthless and its delicate side.Falk shares with one other of my stories (The Return in the Tales of Unrest volume) the distinction of never having been serialized. I think the copy was shown to the editor of some magazine who rejected it indignantly on the sole ground that the girl never says anything. This is perfectly true. From first to last Hermann's niece utters no word in the tale -- and it is not

Tales and Proper NamesIndex to the Variants and AnaloguesIndex to the Notes of W. A. Clouston and W. F. KirbyAlphabetical Table of Notes (Anthropological, &c.)Additional Notes on the Bibliography of the Thousand and OneNights, by W. F. KirbyThe Biography of the Book and Its Reviewers ReviewedOpinions of the PressThe Translator's Foreword. This volume has been entitled THE NEW ARABIAN 1 NIGHTS, a namenow hackneyed because applied to its contents as far back as 1819in Henry Weber's Tales of

Y HAS A GOOD WORD FOR SOME SPARROWS The Song, White-throated and Fox Sparrows.IV CHIPPY, SWEETVOICE AND DOTTY The Chipping, Vesper and Tree Sparrows. V PETER LEARNS SOMETHING HE HADN'T GUESSED The Bluebird and the Robin. VI AN OLD FRIEND IN A NEW HOME The Phoebe and the Least Flycatcher. VII THE WATCHMAN OF THE OLD ORCHARD The Kingbird and the Great Crested Flycatcher. VIII OLD CLOTHES AND OLD HOUSES The Wood Peewee and Some Nesting Places. IX LONGBILL AND TEETER The Woodcock and the Spotted