came, or did they have to watch
with Krises ready, for fear of stealthy foes--foes who crept to stab
beneath the raised bamboo floors. Perhaps he, too, has aided with his
mite--perhaps--who knows? And as this thought occurs, the discontent
will fade, while content alone remains.

Long years has this exile lived in Pura Pura, and then when he left it
for a space--to redeem a promise--he asked me to relate all that he did
and saw while thus away. From Jungle to Java have I therefore followed
him as a faithful chronicler and my commission is ended. But it should
not be so, since there are tales of the jungle and tales of Pura Pura
all worth the telling if what I think be true. For there, where life
moves slowly, the incidents, which make it dwell, dwell so long that
those who watch may note and read. And though that which they read,
being of nature and mankind, is necessarily an old, old story, yet is
the framework new, and thus with an interest all its own, able to impart
a lesson to those who sit at home and speak with vague pity of peoples
far away. Perhaps our traveller--to whom such a name must have seemed
irony indeed--will one day ask my assistance to relate certain chapters
of that life, brief glimpses of which have been afforded the reader in
this little sketch.

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=TITLES AND AUTHORS.=

A WIDOW WELL LEFT R. MANIFOLD CRAIG.

_Ready November the First, 1896._

ONE WEAK MOMENT E. WHITE.

WITHOUT BLOODSHED HAROLD E. GORST.

THAT CHARMING WIDOW CLARENCE HAMLYN.

A ROMANCE OF THE FAIR L. & H. CRANMER-BYNG.

MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE ARTHUR J. IRELAND.

AN AFTERNOON RIDE ANNE PAGE.

THE DIAMOND SHOE BUCKLES MARY ALBERT.

BLOTTED OUT E. PULLEN BURRY.
(Or a Puritan's Curse)

THE PRIEST AND THE ACTRESS ETHEL WALKER.
(Some Idylls of St. Giles)

MARIE VASELLIS JOSEPHINE STOCKWELL.

THE DEALER IN DEATH ARTHUR MORRIS.

TOLD