This charming and provocative collection, by the author of 'Linton Abbey', is devoted to exploring the proposition that for a male to be punished in the presence of—or by—the opposite sex of the same age is perhaps the ultimate mortification. Short stories and poems of rare quality and vivid imagination, illustrated throughout with full-page plates by Sardax, make 'In Front of the Girls' Miss Blackwood’s most exciting and accomplished work to date.