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The Octopus Kiss.—There are countless passionate kisses recorded in literature; the octopus kiss in Blasco Ibanez's Mare Nostrum, when the strange Freya kisses Captain Ulysses Ferragut in the Aquarium of Naples, is worth quoting:

"Ah!" sighed Freya, throwing herself back as though she were going to faint on Ulysses' breast.

He felt as though a monster of the same class as those in the tank, but much larger—a gigantic octopus from the oceanic depths—must have slipped treacherously behind him and was clutching him in one of its tentacles. He could feel the pressure of