| CONTINUED IN THE ADS. | Sarah Redington | [795] |
| GENTLE READER, THE | Arthur Davison Ficke | [692] |
| LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE: NEW STYLE. | Anne O’Hagan | [793] |
| Picture by E. L. Blumenschein. | ||
| LAST FAUN, THE | Helen Minturn Seymour | [717] |
| Picture, printed in tint, by Charles A. Winter. | ||
| [LIMERICKS.]: | ||
| Text and pictures by Oliver Herford. | ||
| XXXIV. The Conservative Owl. | [799] | |
| XXXV. The Omnivorous Book-worm. | [800] | |
| RITUAL. | William Rose Benét | [788] |
| [RYMBELS]: | ||
| Pictures by Oliver Herford. | ||
| A Rymbel of Rhymers. | Carolyn Wells | [796] |
| The Prudent Lover. | L. Frank Tooker | [797] |
| On a Portrait of Nancy. | Carolyn Wells | [797] |
| SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS. | Cale Young Rice | [693] |
| WISE SAINT, THE | Herman Da Costa | [798] |
| Picture by W. T. Benda. | ||
LOVE BY LIGHTNING
BY MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS
Author of “The Melting of Molly,” “Andrew the Glad,” “Miss Selina Lue,” etc.
WITH PICTURES BY F. R. GRUGER
LOVE is the début of a woman’s soul from the darkness under Adam’s left ribs into the sunshine of the Garden of Eden and his presence. It is heavenly, but very much like a major operation attended by convulsions, and I am going to write you the whole truth about it, my dear Evelyn, and not present to you an unadorned feminine version. It is going to be hard, for I’ve only been practising concise veracity for a little over a month, and if I am crude in places, you must forgive me.
What did it?
Aunt Grace, my unfilial virago of a disposition, and the will of God.
Please don’t let it make you uncomfortable to have me speak of Him in this friendly fashion, for He is in the story, and I can’t help it. Besides, that is part of what I want to tell you about.