* EVELYN BRANSCOMBE PETTER has much that is interesting to say about men and women, and packs her thought (I risk the "her") into a quasi-Meredithian form of phrasing which does not always escape obscurity.

" Perceiving that, either from ignorance or caution, he would not say more on this point, Clara changed the subject and asked, "Can Lieutenant Thurstane go down the river safely?" "I would like noting petter than to make the exbedition myself," replied Meyer, once more diplomatic.

" "And would it not pe petter to be cooed friends without more of the matter?" said Robin; "we will be much petter friendships with our panes hale than broken.

" "Ah," said Robin, "your honour is a shudgea real shudgeI couldna have set off the pest six peasts petter myself, me that ken them as if they were my pairns, puir things.

He'll tell you so petter as I can.