Frank Buckland was the most whimsical and original of modern naturalists, and delightful are the chapters which deal with his boyhood and youth when he pursued his hobby under many difficulties.

A Modern Utopia. (Sept. 1909.)

H. G. Wells.

This is Mr. Wells's dream of an ideal future, and contains his famous sketch of the "Samurai," the new aristocracy which is to justify itself by social service.

With Kitchener to Khartoum. (Sept. 1909.)

G. W. Steevens.

Mr. G. W. Steevens was the greatest of all war correspondents, and his story of Lord Kitchener's Nile campaign has always been regarded as his masterpiece.

The Unveiling of Lhasa.

Edmund Candler.

A brilliant description of the romance of the "Hermit Land." A picture of Lhasa which lives long in the imagination. (Oct.)