yd's Coffeehouse (you remember
it?), where I was just coming round, and had the satisfaction
of telling her the news. I cannot help suspecting that her
case may have been wrongly diagnosed, and that the splanchnic
ganglion and solar plexus are really the seat of the evil. If
so, the treatment has been entirely at fault.

"I shall most likely be back to-morrow, so keep your congrats.
for me, old chap. No time for a letter. Love from us all to
yourself and Mrs. J. B.

"Yours ever,

"CONRAD VEREKER.

"P.S.--I reopen this (which I wrote late last night) to say
that Miss N., so far from having acquired a horror of the
water (as is usual in such cases), talks of 'swimming over the
ground' if the weather clears. I fear she is incorrigible."

THE END

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BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN

JOSEPH VANCE

A novel of life near London in the 50's. $1.75.

"The best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy;
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its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile
characterization, as the first great English novel that has
appeared in the twentieth century."--LEWIS MELVILLE in _New
York Times Saturday Review_.

"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter
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ALICE-FOR-SHORT

The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends
and family, with some decidedly dramatic happenings. $1.75.

"Really worth reading and praising.... If any writer of the
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PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

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=WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S SOMEHOW GOOD=

After years of separation from his wife, the hero, during a complete
suspension of memory and loss of identity, accidentally finds shelter
in her home. This situation seems very simple, but the developments
are far f