I looked at the miniature and began to think of possible openings. One impossible one struck me at once. "Anyway," I said, "I'll get him to close my mouth." * * * * * The stars represent something quite simple this time--my brain at work. "Celia," I said, "I _will_ write. And this time the miniature shall be criticised properly. To say, as you no doubt said, 'This is not like me,' I mean not like my husband--well, you know what I mean--just to condemn it is not enough. _I_ shall do it differently. I shall take each feature separately and dwell upon it. But to do this modestly I must have a _locus_--I am sorry to have to borrow from our Italian allies again--a _locus standi_ apart from that of owner of face. I must also be donor of miniature. Then I can comment impartially on the present which I am preparing for you." "I thought you'd see that soon," smiled Celia. A.A.M. * * * * * [Illustration r30/075th: _Recruiting Sergeant_. "WHAT ARE YOU FOR?" _Recruit_. "FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR, OR LONGER IF IT DOESN'T END SOONER."] * * * * * FASHIONS IN BOOK-WEAR. ["_Rose of Glenconnel_. A first book by Mrs. Patrick MacGill, telling of the adventures in the Yukon and elsewhere of Rosalie Moran. With coloured jacket. Price 5s. net." _Advt. in "Times Literary Supplement_."] Extract from "Belle's Letters":--"Other smart books I noticed included Mrs. BARCLAY'S _Sweet Seventy-one_, looking radiantly young and lovely in a simple rose-pink frock embellished with rosebuds, and Mr. CHARLES GARVICE'S _Marriage Bells_, utterly charming in ivory satin trimmed with orange blossom. On another shelf I saw Mr. KIPLING'S _The Horse Marines_, looking well in a smartly-cut navy blue costume with white facings, and not far away was Mr. ARNOLD BENNETT'S _Straphanger_, in smoked terra-cotta, and the pocket edition of DICKENS in Mrs. Harris Tweed. Mr. Britling's new book, _Mr. Wells Sees it Through the Press_, was looking rather dowdy in a ready-made Norfolk jacket, but Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAMSON'S _The Petrol Peeress_ was very chic in a delightfully-cut oil-silk wrap; and so was Sir GILBERT PARKER'S _This Book for Sale_, in a purple bolero. Academic sobriety characterised the gown worn by the POET LAUREATE'S _The Sighs of Bridges_, while Mr. A.C. BENSON'S _Round My College Dado_ was conspicuous in a Magdalene blouse with pale-blue sash." * * * * * "This was followed by a banquet in which Bro. W.S. Williams took a prominent part."--_Daily Chronicle_ (_Kingston, Jamaica_). * * * * * LETTERS FROM MACEDONIA. II.