[Illustration: hand symbol]NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. [Transcriber's Note: Alternative spellings retained, punctuation normalized. Italics denoted by underscore (_). P. 268: "impenetrable veil that has long shrouded the proceeedings of the Gargoyle Club" changed to read "impenetrable veil that has long shrouded the proceedings of the Gargoyle Club".]