Sometimes the short story is used as an effective means of satire of a type resembling that employed by Addison in _The Spectator Papers_. Satire can be given in so few words, and in the very speech and actions of the persons satirized, that it is well adapted as material for the short story. It should be the aim of all satirical short stones of the milder sort to follow Addison’s rule, and point out little follies rather than great wickednesses, and to aim at a thousand people rather than at one. _My Husband’s Book_ is an admirable example of ideal satire of the lighter type. The husband is typical—of whom?—of every one who puts off until tomorrow what he should do to-day. The wife is presented whimsically as altogether adoring, but as somewhat persistently and mischievously suspicious. At no time does the husband become aware of his real defect of character, nor the wife lose all her loving faith. Kindly satire like this is playful in nature, the sort to be expected from the author of _Peter Pan_. We laugh good-naturedly at the husband—and see ourselves in him! Sir James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, in 1860. His delightfully romantic _Auld Licht Idylls_, _A Window in Thrums_, and especially _The Little Minister_, made him known to all the English-speaking world. His remarkably original and fanciful plays, _Quality Street_, _Peter Pan_, _What Every Woman Knows_, and numerous other dramatic works have added to his already great reputation. He is one of the leading English writers of the present time. WAR By JACK LONDON The short story often rises beyond the light and the commonplace to act as a stern critic of world conditions. With vivid, realistic touches it points at reality. By focussing every light upon a single human figure who compellingly commands sympathy it arouses in us a sense of kinship with all who suffer. Short stories of this type have teaching force that is all powerful.