Contents: Adventures among books--Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson--Rab's friend--Oliver Wendell Holmes--Mr. Morris's poems--Mrs. Radcliffe's novels--A Scottish romanticist of 1830 [T.T. Stoddart]--The Confessions of Saint Augustine--Smollett--Nathaniel Hawthorne--The paradise of poets--Paris and Helen--Enchanted cigarettes--Stories and story-telling--The supernatural in fiction--An old Scottish psychical researcher [G. Sinclair]--The boy.