Presently Blydenburg found himself in a cab. He was a trifle dazed at what he had heard. He was not brilliant; he was very tiresome at times, the sort of a man that likes big words and small dictionaries, yet somehow he was lovable and more human than many far cleverer than he. To his own misfortune he had a heart, and in disasters like these it bled. He would have crossed the Continent to bring a moment’s pleasure to the girl that had been asphyxiated in her bed, and he would have given his daughter to the man who had been choked down to the grave. Then, too, as nearly as he could see, he had wronged Incoul and Incoul was in great grief. As the Urbaine rolled on, his thoughts did not grow nimbler. In his head was a full, aching sensation; he felt benumbed, and raised the collar of his coat. Soon the cab stopped before the house in the Parc Monceau. He had no little set speech prepared; he wanted merely to take his friend by the hand and let him feel his sympathy unspoken, but when the footman came in answer to his ring, he was told that Mr. Incoul could see no one. He went back to his cab. It had begun to rain, but he did not notice it, and left the window open. As the cab rolled down the street again, Mr. Incoul, who had been occupied with the morning paper, sent for the courier. “Karl,” he said, when the man appeared, “I will go over your accounts.” THE END. PARIS, _January-March, 1887_. [Illustration] PUBLICATIONS OF BENJAMIN & BELL NO. 744 BROADWAY NEW YORK _SUMMER READING._ MR. INCOUL’S MISADVENTURE. BY EDGAR SALTUS, _Author of “Balzac: A Study,” “The Anatomy of Negation,” “The Philosophy of Disenchantment,” etc._ 12mo, cloth. Finely printed by Gilliss Brothers & Turnure. Price, $1.00. A novel which is sure to be condemned by every one who prefers platitude to paradox, or tea and toast to truffles and red pepper. SOCIETY VERSE BY AMERICAN WRITERS. Edited by ERNEST DE LANCEY PIERSON. 12mo, cloth, uncut edges, gilt tops, with ornamental and unique design on front cover. Elegantly printed on fine paper by the De Vinne Press. Price, $1.25. This collection of about eighty poems represents the best _vers de société_ and dainty lyrics which have appeared in this country. It is virtually the first representative collection of _vers de société_ by American writers ever published. Some of the contributions appear for the first time in this volume, and among the forty-three writers represented are Thomas Bailey Aldrich, H. C. Bunner, Helen Gray Cone, Robert Grant, Clinton Scollard, Oscar Fay Adams, Walter Learned, Bessie Chandler, Harrison Robertson, Charles Henry Lüders, Ruth Hall, A. E. Watrous, Samuel Minturn Peck, and Louise Imogene Guiney. FIRST EDITION OF AN ORIGINAL WORK BY LEIGH HUNT. THE BOOK OF THE SONNET.