The reception of my story was as cold as the tea. They weren't such
fools, they said, as to believe it. So, knowing your larger charity,
dear Mr. Punch, I send it to you.

And I shall await that retrospective article in some Maytime _Field_,
entitled "A Season of Disasters."

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A CRITICAL PROBLEM.

"_The Admirable Crichton_ is still one of the most captivating
of modern plays, rich in humour, scenically 'telling' and
close-packed with Barrieisms."--_Times_.

"'Crichton' is one of the most agreeable Barrie plays, because
it is so free from Barrieisms."--_Manchester Guardian_.

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SURMISES AND SURPRISES.

The appearance of the Dean of ST. PAUL'S at a recent social gathering
not in the character of a wet blanket, but as a teller of jocund tales
and a retailer of humorous anecdotes, must not be taken as an
isolated and transient transformation, but as foreshadowing a
general conversion of writers and publicists hitherto associated with
utterances of a mordant, bitter, sardonic and pessimistic tone.

It is rumoured at Cambridge that Mr. MAYNARD KEYNES, mollified by the