The name of the terrible queen, for example, appears on her coins as "Cynethryth," and varies in the pages of the chroniclers from "Quendred" to the form chosen as most simple for use today.

And it has not seemed worth while to substitute the ancient names of places for those in present use which sufficiently retain their earlier form or meaning.
The whole story of King Ethelbert's wooing and its disastrous ending is a perfect romance in all truth, without much need for enhancement by fiction, and perhaps has its forgotten influence on many a modern romance, by the postponement of a wedding day until the month of May--so disastrous for him and his bride--has passed.
C.W.

WHISTLER.
STOCKLAND, 1904.
INTRODUCTORY.
A shore of dull green and yellow sand dunes, beyond whose low tops a few sea-worn pines and birch trees show their heads, and at whose feet the gray sea hardly breaks in the heavy stillness that comes with the near thunder of high summer.

The tide is full and nearing the turn, and the shore birds have gone elsewhere till their food is bared again at its falling.

Only a few dotterels, whose eggs lie somewhere near, run and flit, piping, to and fro, for a boat and two men are resting at the very edge of the wave as if the ebb would see them afloat again.
Armed men they are, too, and the boat is new and handsome, graceful with the beautiful lines of a northern shipwright's designing.