tion of very clever and original short stories, by an
author whose work has attracted much favorable attention here and in
England. The stories deal with lovers' meetings, partings,
misunderstandings or reconciliations. They are little tragedies or
little comedies, and sometimes both. The situations are strong and
ingeniously conceived, and each tale has a turn or twist of its own.
There is throughout a quiet vein of humor and a light touch even where
the situation is strained. In a way the stories are held together,
because most or all of them have a bearing on the idea which is set
forth in the first story--the one that gives the book its title. In that
story the girl loses her lover because, instead of acting simply and
naturally, she tries to act as if she were in a book, to follow her
"literary sense"; in other words, she has something of the same
temperament that distinguished Mr. Barrie's "Sentimental Tommy." This
idea appears and reappears in the other stories, notably in that called
"Miss Eden's Baby," which in its way is a little masterpiece.

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On the We-a Trail

By CAROLINE BROWN

Author of "Knights in Fustian"

Cloth 12mo $1.50

This story incidentally portrays the vicissitudes and the lives of the
American pioneers in the "Great Wilderness," as the country west of the
Alleghanies was generally known. The capture and recapture of Fort
Sackville, at Vincennes on the Wabash, are important features among the
central incidents.

The action begins in mid-wilderness and culminates with the fall of the
fort under the assault of George Rogers Clark. Here the lovers are
reunited after months of separation and adventures. They were first
parted by the savages, who murdered the heroine's entire family save
herself. Driven into the forest, she is taken captive by the Indians.
She makes her escape. Later she is taken to the fort by one of
Hamilton's _coureurs de bois_, and adopted into the family of the
commandant. The lover meantime wanders from Kaskaskia to Detroit in
pursuit of the tribe which has taken captive his sweetheart, and has
various adventures by the way, many of which take place on the famous
We-a Trail. The action of the story is practically confined to Indiana,
the author's native state; and it forms an important addition to the
increasing number of novels dealing with the early life of that region
of the country.

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