once set going, develops admirably enough on lines entirely its own. The
so-much-an-hour hero turns out an engaging young gentleman, but a
wofully poor protagonist. The situation where (in the midst of whirling
events) he makes the startling discovery that he himself has been in
some way switched on to the part of villain is one that you can
appreciate only at first hand. Certainly if you want (as who does not in
these days?) an anaesthetic of agreeable nonsense _The Plot-Maker_ is a
medium that I can cordially recommend: one obvious advantage being that
you need not try to believe a single word of it.

* * * * *

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

From a publisher's list:--

"Shells as evidence of the Migrations of Early Culture."

And modern Kultur spreads itself in just the same old way.

* * * * *

"Lady Required to Share Rome with another."

_Staffordshire Sentinel_.

But what about the King of ITALY, not to mention the POPE?


[Illustration: _Eastern Potentate (rusticating)_. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA, MY