What's wrong with elfin faces

"It is almost six," he said; and even as he spoke the barbaric copper clock upon the wall clanged the first stroke of the hour. At the sixth the lady sprung up and turned on the Major one of the queerest and yet most attractive faces he had ever seen in his life; open, and yet tantalising, the face of an elf.

So reads the original text of The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown in The Idler. Unfortunately, the Harper's Weekly misprinted the last word as 'elk,' which must have baffled American readers.

Apart from the first two 'Queer Trades' stories from The Idler (I wanted to do some narrative for a change) additions during the last month include items from The London Mercury, The Dublin Review, and The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine.

Also, I was glad to find in my inbox several anonymous corrections. Thank you whoever it was. Getting feedback like this was one of the firs purposes of these pages.