Why fear Middle Age? For the majority it should be the time of success, the age of fruition, the period of accomplishment. At forty a man is in the prime of life, whilst at fifty he is still well within the season of vitality and splendid endeavour. For woman Middle Age brings some ill-health certainly, but that should only be in passing, and for her the years past forty need have no terrors. Girlhood and youth lack many sweet gifts brought by the Fairy of Middle Age; experience brings contentment, and added powers of enjoyment. In society, in sport, as in her friendships and in her home, the woman of forty-five may still be a queen and yet look forward to a long and happy reign. But good looks and nerve, athletic success and social charm are certainly more and more dependent on physical fitness and mental poise as the years go by after forty; health is, indeed, as essential to the enjoyment of middle life as in the more buoyant time of youth. In this little book the author holds out a helping hand to all who are looking anxiously at wrinkles, stray gray hairs, or their last record on the weighing machine; he gives them a bright and hopeful message with many useful hints on how to keep up and doing in the "forties" and "fifties" of life. An Absolutely Original Fairy Tale. THE STREET THAT RAN AWAY By Elizabeth Croly. With 4 Illustrations in Colour. Crown 8vo. 5s. net. Publishers' Note:--Did you know that the Fairies never go to a Registry Office? Did you know that when they require a Governess for two human children (orphans) who have fallen into their charge they think nothing of kidnapping a most charming girl and placing her--in The Street That Ran Away? And did you know that this Street of old gothic gables and swinging casements, as if it had not enough mysteries of its own, goes wandering about the world with its children and their governess from London to Damascus, from the North Pole to El Dorado, running into adventures with wild beasts and queer characters till you tremble for the safety of your own tiled roof. And did you know.... Ah, but you must read this beautiful story of enchantment to know all about the boy and girl, their charming governess, and the mysterious Street that ran away with them. No one can tell that tale save the author of the book. All we can do is to tell you no tale but a fact--the fact that here is a really lovely and wonderful book which the children of the world will take to their hearts and remember when they have children of their own clamouring for a story. LETTERS TO MY GRANDSON ON THE WORLD ABOUT HIM By The Hon. Stephen Coleridge. Crown 8vo. 4s. net.