I was sitting in the garden of a suburban restaurant; above me were the dark masses of chestnut trees, while before us, above the railway, was a long strip of bright, summer-night sky.

THE SOUTH-SEA HOUSE Reader, in thy passage from the Bankwhere thou hast been receiving thy half-yearly dividends (supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself)to the Flower Pot, to secure a place for Dalston, or Shacklewell, or some other thy suburban retreat northerly,didst thou never observe a melancholy looking, handsome, brick and stone edifice, to the leftwhere Threadneedle-street abuts upon Bishopsgate?

The noises of children, playing their own fanciesas I now hearken to them by fits, sporting on the green before my window, while I am engaged in these grave speculations at my neat suburban retreat at Shacklewellby distance made more sweetinexpressibly take from the labour of my task.

She told him, in a quiet tone, that Miss Louise Merrick was being secluded in a suburban house near East Orange, and described the place so he could easily find it.

Certainly, in his fancy, he had visioned a honeymoon in Pullman parlor cars and suburban bungalows.

The street is on fire with it all the way up, now in mid-winter; while at the street end opens out a green park, fringed with noble trees all in full leaf; underneath them more pleasant little suburban villas; and behind all, again, a background of steep wooded mountain a thousand feet in height.

Many of these drives are lined with very handsome suburban residences, surrounded with lawns and parks.

A person with a suburban mind would be as suburban in the wilds of Nepal as in the wilds of Tooting.

A person with a suburban mind would be as suburban in the wilds of Nepal as in the wilds of Tooting.

'It is such a comfort to know that so small a garden can be pretty: for of course any garden we could afford must be small.' Lady Mary had no idea that this quadrangle was spacious as compared with the narrow strip allotted to many a suburban villa calling itself 'an eligible residence.'

What building is that ahead?" We had just swung round from Caledonian Road into a quiet and prosperous-looking suburban street, at the end of which rose the tower of a castellated building.

Therefore let us discuss not the causes, but some of the results of the system which has placed upon suburban shoulders such seemingly hopeless philanthropic burdens.

THE VALOR OF BRINLEY However differentiated from other suburban places Dumfries Corners may be in most instances, in the matter of obtaining and retaining efficient domestics the citizens of that charming town find it much like all other communities of its class.

What quality it is in human nature that leads a competent housemaid or a truly-talented culinary artist to abhor the country-side, and to prefer the dark, cellar-like kitchens of the city houses it is difficult to surmise; why the suburban housekeeper finds her choice limited every autumn to the maid that the city folks have chosen to reject is not clear.

It may be, too, that this is one of the reasons for the constant changes in most suburban houses, for it is equally axiomatic that once an alien becomes acclimated she takes on a clientèle of adopted relatives, who in the course of time become as much of a drain upon the treasury of the household as the Simon-Pure article.

LUNDBERG, GEORGE A. Leisure; a suburban study, by George A. Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky & Mary Alice McInerny.

March meditation of suburban train, by Genevieve Taggard.

March meditation of suburban train.

The train came thundering inthey were waiting for it at one of the suburban stationsand there was only a second in which to say good-bye.

It was significant that the Fulhams' was no longer a house of suburban habits.

And the five-mile walk daily to the suburban music hall where five francs were earned by playing the accompaniments of comic songs.

In Leigh Hunt's charming book entitled The Town, I find the following notice of the partiality of poets for houses with gardens attached to them: "It is not surprizing that garden-houses as they were called; should have formerly abounded in Holborn, in Bunhill Row, and other (at that time) suburban places.

Left to himself, he took a turning to the right, which led to a sort of suburban street, principally inhabited by shopkeepers.

She is indigenous to the mansarde and the pavébears no transplantationflourishes in the première balconie, the suburban guingette, and the Salle Valentinois; but degenerates at a higher elevation.

Saturday was spent on a harvest festival at a suburban church, after which the daughters were despatched to their uncle's by a late train.