How The Lightning Conductor came to be written and what
Edward VII said of it; how in a short time after landing in England from America Miss Alice Livingston (as she was then) was making over 21,000 a year in serial stories, running six of them at a time, at thirty shillings a thousand words; how she and her husband entertained a Spanish brigand king to luncheon—together with myriad reminiscences of such eminent and distinguished persons as would fall to be met by a much-travelled, witty and charming American writing- woman—such are samples of the contents of Mrs. C. N. Willitunson's The Inky Way (Chapman and-Hall, 18s.). All of it is readable, it carries you along ; you can stop anywhere and it does not much matter if you lose your place, for at 'Whatever point you begin again you are cheerfully entertained.
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