By the ingenious method of taking twelve of the birthdays of Timothy, the delightful son of Hester Deyne, Mrs. Peck has discovered the framework for a story which, through its humour and moving sympathy, touches deep chords. The relations of Hester with her son and her husband comprise a tale of genial humanity, helpful to these times. *THE LOST NAVAL PAPERS.* *BY BENNET COPPLESTONE,* Author of "Jitny and the Boys." A series of exciting stories which reveal the English Secret Service as it really is: silent, unsleeping, and supremely competent. It shows how the Secret Service leaves nothing to chance, how it watches and waits, how it plays enemy agents upon strings so long as they are useful, and grabs them when they have ceased to be useful or have become dangerous. *MARY OF THE WINDS* *AND OTHER TALES.* *BY ENEDEEN.* This is a volume of short stories by a lady of distinction, who has lived long in the south-west of Ireland and knows the people well. Most of the stories embody the strange mystical traditions of the race, and are told as nearly as possible in the language in which they are current among the people to-day. *MISS GASCOIGNE.* *BY KATHARINE TYNAN,* Author of "The Honourable Molly," "Kit," etc. "Miss Gascoigne" is a love-story in the setting of England as she was in the days of Peace and will not be again. Miss Gascoigne is the Lady of the Manor, a fresh and fair open-air lady. She has, two lovers, a fine English gentleman, and a self-made man, no less a gentleman in essentials, who has returned from Colonial life in South Africa. The reader will find out for himself which she chooses. The book is mainly romantic comedy, and it has been the writer’s endeavour not to allow a single dark shadow to fall upon it. *SIR ISUMBRAS AT THE FORD.* *BY D. K. BROSTER,* Joint Author of "Chantemerle," "The Vision Splendid," etc. In the year 1795, when England was equipping an expedition of French émigrés to help (Royalist) France, a hardy Chouan leader, unsentimental and not over-young, was unexpectedly led to risk his life for a little Franco-Scottish boy of his acquaintance, kidnapped by two treacherous old French ladies, and for a woman who had come near to depriving him of it already. Engulfed in the tragic failure of the expedition at Quiberon, himself both lost and saved through his past knight-errantry, he survived to be repaid, in unforseen ways, by each of his debtors. Over the story—which borrows its title from Millais’ well-known picture—blows the wind of the narrow seas, whereon, indeed, some of its action passes, and where, in a storm, it comes to an end. *STEP-SONS OF FRANCE.*