Was it not Mr. ALBERT CHEVALIER who used to sing some hortatory lyrics upon the inadvisability of introducing your donah to a pal? Something of this sort, _mutatis mutandis_ in the matter of sex, might stand as the moral of _That Red-headed Girl_(JENKINS). Because no sooner had _Julia_, the heroine, got herself engaged to _Dick_ than the arrival of auburn-tressed _Sheila_ so dazzled the youth that in less time than it takes to write he had called the engagement off and prepared to marry the new-comer. However, to square matters, _Sheila_ now jilted him; whereupon he fled back to _Julia_ (meanwhile, though he knew it not, legatee of twelve thousand a year) and promptly married her. Which was entirely satisfactory, save from the view-point of Miss LOUISE HEILGERS, who was left with her hero and heroine united and the whole affair at an end before she had passed Chapter XII. Here however intervened a very touching instance of filial piety. Springing to the rescue of her author, and with no other possible motive or excuse than that of helping Miss HEILGERS towards a publishable six-bobs-worth, the resourceful _Julia_ determined to think that _Dick_ had married her for the money of whose existence he was palpably unaware. He, on his part, not to be outdone, played up to the situation thus created with a lunatic behaviour that gave it the support it wanted. I need not, of course, insult your intelligence with any indication of the end. A happy, flagrantly artificial little comedy of manners, as exhibited by the characters in polite pre-war fiction, and nowhere else. * * * * * [Illustration: _Resigned Patriot_. "DO WE DRAW FOR THIS, MY DEAR?"] * * * * * INTENSIVE WARFARE IN PALESTINE. "On a front of fourteen yards, this position extends by a series of redoubts and trenches eleven miles south-east of Gaza."--_Isle of Man Times_. * * * * * "Lord Devonport ... hoped their Lordships would realise that the stable necessaries of life had been brought under Government control."--_Belfast News-Letter_. They do realise it. You should hear their language about oats.