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come, and he didn't come, and then I went into his room at last, after he didn't answer to my knocks, I found him just the way he was when the sheriff got there—dead in his bed, with that long black hair wound around his neck to choke him to death!

That was just six hours after I saw Mrs. Lannisfree.

And that is why I don't believe it when they say that Mr. Lannisfree took his wife out off the coast of Maine that day almost a month ago and pushed her into the water and drowned her because he was jealous of that other man they say Mrs. Lannisfree liked, even if her body was recovered, because I saw her just as plain as I see you now, with the moonlight white on her face and hands, walking through the woods toward the sea.

THE EYRIE (Continued from Page 2) British composers, Arnold Bax, composed a beautiful symphonic tone-poem which pictures the golden Elysium of the Celts. It is called "The Garden of Fand."

I should also add, perhaps, for those who may wish to explore this fascinating subject further, that beside Rolleston's fine popular book there are standard works by Rhys, Leahy, Joyce and many others. There is also a vast deal of material on every aspect of this subject in the standard encyclopediae of religion and folk-lore.

Edmond Hamilton.

Word from Stanton Coblentz

E WERE interested to receive an announcement from Stanton A. Coblentz the other day concerning a new book of his scheduled for publication this fall. The title is "When The Birds Fly South" and it is put out by The Wings Press. Stanton Coblentz, well-known as a poet, critic and author whose work has appeared both here and in England, is an old friend of ours and of readers. He was kind enough to give us this little peck into his forthcoming book.

This novel, "When The Birds Fly South." scheduled for publication in September, is one for the reader who has tired of modern realism, and wishes a story of romance, mystery and wonder, a story that only a poet could have written. It is a tale of love and adventure among the mountains of Afghanistan, a tale dominated by the weird and inscrutable forces of the east, and by an overtowering destiny personified in Yulada. the great stone woman on the peak. It is also the tale of Dan Prescott, a lost member of an American geological expedition, who crosses "The Mountain of Vanished Men" to pass his days among the Ibandru, a quaint mountain people that disappear mysteriously each year "when the birds fly south." And it is likewise the tale of the love of Prescott and dark-eyed, auburn-haired Yasma, an impetuous young daughter of the tribe.

Stanton A. Coblentz.