OF THE CELESTIAL.

By the Author of "In a Canadian Canoe," etc.

_Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d._

"Has a quaintness and distinction of its own, an elusive quality
of style, a personal touch, that lends to it a whimsical
fascination,"--_Daily News._

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

IN A CANADIAN CANOE.

_Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d._

"The pleasant and even remarkable book which Mr. Barry Pain has
contributed to the Whitefriars Library. The best thing in the book,
to our mind, is 'The Celestial Grocery,' a quaint and thoroughly
original blending of effervescent humour with grim pathos."--_Pall
Mall Gazette._

"Mr. Barry Pain has a decided sense of humour. The best things in
the volume are the classical burlesques grouped under the title of
'The Nine Muses minus One.' They are really clever and full of
_esprit_."--_Academy._

"Nor is he deficient in fancy, and 'The Celestial Grocery' is as
whimsical as it is fresh. 'Bill' is in yet another vein, and proves
that Mr. Pain can handle the squalor of reality: while the last half
of 'The Girl and the Beetle,' the best of the book, suggests a
certain comprehension of character."--_National Observer._

"An original worker, a man who copies no one either in treatment or
style--this, his first volume, should find a wide popularity."--_The
Review of Reviews._

"If you want a really refreshing book, a book whose piquant savour
and quaint originality of style are good for jaded brains, buy and
read _In a Canadian Canoe_.... There is in these stories a curious
mixture of humour, insight, and pathos, with here and there a dash
of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is
of the essence of true humour. As for 'The Celestial Grocery,' I can
only say that it is in its way a masterpiece."--_Punch._

STORIES AND INTERLUDES.

_Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d._

"Mr. Pain has a delicate fancy and a graceful style, a bitter-sweet
humour, and a plentiful endowment of 'the finer perceptions.'"_--Punch._

"Amazingly clever.... Teems with satire and good
things."--_Speaker._

"'The Magic Morning,' though dealing with a young city man and his
wife, has the atmosphere of far-away dreaminess which is so charming
in some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories."--_Saturday Review._

"There is something delightfully, because unsatisfactorily,
fascinating in these stories, with their touch of _diablerie_, their
elusiveness."--_National Review._

"If we l