If 'tis love that makes the world go round, it is certainly the same force that maintains the circulation of the libraries. So it is safe to assume that such a title as _The Little Blind God_ (MELROSE) is itself enough to preserve the volume that bears it from any wallflower existence on the less frequented shelves. But as for the story to which Miss ANNE WEAVER has given this attractive name I find it very difficult to say anything, good or bad. Only once did its placid unfolding cause me any emotion, even the mildest. Old _Lady Conyers_ had adopted as companion one _Mistress Barbara Cardeen_ (need I interpolate that the time is the eighteenth century? O brocade and lavender! O swords and candle-light and general tushery!), whom she found playing a violin in the streets of Bath--I should say _the_ Bath; let us above all things be atmospheric! As her ladyship had a most eligible son, and as _Barbara_--the chit!--naturally hadn't a guinea, I own I was slightly astonished to find the dowager positively hurling the young couple at each other's heads. However, doubtless _Lady Conyers_, as herself a novel-reader, knew that the thing was inevitable anyway. But before this there were of course the misunderstandings. _Mistress Barbara_ had, in the violin days, a half-brother and this gentleman very obligingly turns up _incognito_ at Conyers End, and even goes to the expense of hiring rooms in a cottage on the estate, for no other purpose in life than that his conspicuously clandestine meetings with the fair _Barbara_ should be misconstrued as an assignation. Ha! out, rapiers! and let us be ready for the moment when _Barbara_, rushing between the combatants, receives in her own bosom the blade intended for ----, etc. But of course not enough blade to endanger the happy ending. So there you are. A placid, undistinguished tale, that may be commended as nourishment or soporific according to the taste and fancy of the reader. * * * * * [Illustration: ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PRUSSIAN EFFRONTERY. _Officer of Zeppelin_ (_in perfect English._) "WOULD YOU KINDLY DIRECT ME TO THE WAR OFFICE?"] * * * * * An Optimist. "Gentlewoman, bright, owing to War, offers Companionship in Return for hospitality, laundry, and travelling expenses." _Morning Paper._ * * * * * "An attack on the compulsory vice bill now before the House of Lords was made by the president of the conference, William C. Anderson."--_New York Globe._ Our American contemporary is misinformed. The measure in question seeks to make virtue compulsory--the virtue of patriotism. * * * * * "The following French official communique was issued this afternoon:--3.25.--Bouton Rouge 1, Dordogne 2, Kitch 3. Eight ran."--_Evening Times and Echo._ We are sorry that K. OF K. didn't do better.