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...Ghostly" is a long and rather interesting story, though one is inclined to skip the preface which has almost nothing to do with the plot, and to begin the fiction at "Spoff's First Prayer." The story is well told, the scene laid in British Columbia, and the plot deals with a solitary hunter, who, compelled to spend the night in a deserted Indian village, meets there his hospitable ghost...
...failed to visit the new Semitic Museum should certainly go there while Professor Lyon is in attendance to explain the various collections. On the left as one enters is a series of large relieves representing different scenes in the life of Assurnazirpal, king of Assyria from 883-859 B. C. In the first the king is seated by the sacred tree, holding aloft in adoration of the gods, the sacred cone. He next appears in a hunting scene. As a priest performing the rites of sacrifice, he is represented with wings showing the tendency of the Assyrians to associate their...
...Scene 2. Simon's march, and his meeting with the crafty vender of pies...
...Scene 3. Simon's cheeky and hopeless request. The pieman's prompt and startling question...
...Scene 4. Simon's humiliating confession. Remarks suggested by the foregoing tale...