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William Chaucer, an out-of-work journalist and writer, rescues the irascible, but very wealthy, Mr Octavus Pratt, O.B.E., who has fallen in front of a tram. Mr Pratt gives the young man a job, but soon discovers he has met his match.
Russell discusses two edited volumes of Stevenson's letters, Letters to Family and Friends and Vailima Letters, and suggests they contain much to interest and appeal to women readers.
(p. 15)
Eveningi"For purple hills fade into purple night,",Ethel Davies,
single work poetry
(p. 23)