ungling beginner and Zola
a finicking dilettante."

_The Manxman_ says: "A wonderful panorama
of the life of a decadent Abyssinian Prince;
with full details of his wardrobe, his taste in
liqueurs, his emotions and dissipations....
Simply must be read by anyone who wishes
to be 'in it.' It is a liberal education in the
luscious."

Mr. John Pougher writes in _Saturn_:--
"Tripe is the most nourishing author I know.
To adapt Dickens's famous phrase, there is a
juiciness in his work which would enchant a
scavenger."

2/- _net or three copies for_ 5/- _and four_
(_with 1 lb. of sugar_) _for_ 6/-

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GENERAL LITERATURE.
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WAS MILTON A MORMON?
BY FLAMMA BELL.
A book for polygamists of all ages.

1/- _net, or_ 1/9 _with 1 lb. of margarine_.

LIFE WITHOUT SOAP.
BY DR. BLACKWELL GRIMES.

How to be happy though unwashed. National
thrift in a nutshell.

_With portrait of the Author in black-and-white_.
1/- _net._

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INTIMATE INTERIORS SERIES.
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IN A PANTRY AT POTSDAM

(_With Preface by the Man who ate Sauerkraut
with HINDENBURG_).

IN TINO'S BOOTROOM.

IN A SCULLERY AT SOFIA.

IN A SERVANTS' HALL AT
BUDA-PESTH.

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[Illustration: _Neutral Waiter_. "I SHALL NEVAIR ONDERSTAND ZIS LANGUAGE.
ZAT OFFICER--I SAY TO HIM, 'GOOT MORNING, 'OW ARE YOU?' 'E SAY, 'DAM 'ONGRY
AND FED OP'!"]

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

[The management of _The Times_, of which the price was raised on Monday
to twopence, is anxious, in view of the paper famine, to restore the
old custom by which this journal was subscribed for jointly or loaned,
whether gratuitously or by newsagents at one penny a perusal. Having
"determined to restrict the sale and encourage the circulation of each
copy in several houses daily, the managers will not hesitate, as a last
resort, to increase the selling price to sevenpence per copy."]

_From_ "_The Evening Uproar_."

BATTLE IN THE WEST-END.

Piccadilly Circus was the scene of an appalling fracas this afternoon.
Shortly after two o'clock a quietly-dressed middle-aged man, at present
uni