So Fiona stooped down and stroked the little dog, who looked at her with wistful eyes, and took her farewell of the King; and the King raised his hand, and the mist rose again and enwrapped the fairy ring and those in it . . . and Fiona walked out through the archway into the cave, and there sat the Student on the rock barrier, just as she had left him, knocking the ashes out of his pipe. And even as she came to him there was a noise behind her, and when she looked round it was to see the archway blocked by a great fall of rock. "You will not use that way again, little daughter," said the Student. "I shall not use any way again now, daddy," she said. "I am too old. But oh, daddy, it has been worth it." Then they launched their boat and paddled slowly out of the cave, out of the dark into daylight; and before them lay the quiet sea bathed in the winter sun, and the Isle of Mist dreaming under its mantle of white. THE END. _A Selection from the Catalogue of_ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS [Illustration] Complete Catalogues sent on application THE MOON POOL BY A. MERRITT Romance, real romance, and wonderful adventure,--absolutely impossible, yet utterly probable! A story one almost regrets having read, since one can then no longer read it for the first time. Once in the proverbial blue moon there comes to the fore an author who can conceive and write such a tale. Here is one! Few indeed will forget, who, with the Professor, watch the mystic approach of the Shining One down the moon path,--who follow with him and the others the path below the Moon Pool, beyond the Door of the Seven Lights;--and would there were more characters in fiction like Lakla the lovely and Larry O'Keefe the lovable. Perhaps you readers will know who were those weird and awe-inspiring Silent Ones. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland By Lady Gregory With Two Essays and Notes by W. B. Yeats _Two Volumes. 12o_ To those who have felt the haunting charm that inheres in the Celtic consciousness of an imminent supernaturalism, this collection of Irish fancy, belief, and folk-lore, gathered from the lips of the people with patient and reverent care, will have particular value. It has interest as an exceptionally thorough and representative study of psychic sensitiveness in Ireland, and the slightness of the barrier between worlds seen and unseen. G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London The Substance of a Dream By F. W. Bain "In this new and wholly charming Hindu story a very old world speaks to us, but one that has not lost its childhood with age and sophistication. It is a world of innocent voluptuousness where passion is not contrary to faith but is itself faith. "Mr. Bain's people have character, as there are colors in moonlight, a character with a common beauty in all its diversities; and because of its utter and inner harmony, this creation of his has a very rare beauty."