It will probably surprise many readers to learn I that Miss Beatrice Harraden does not consider her best work to be that famous book "Ships that Pass in the Night. "Interplay," published in 1908 - her last important work - is her favourite, for this reason: that, in her opinion, it seems to represent the writer as she is to-day, whilst the works of the past are, as it were, "past phases, left behind with past years." Born at Hampstead, and living there still, Miss Harraden was educated at Cheltenham College under Miss Beale, from whence she went to Bedford College, and became England's fortieth lady B.a. of the London University. She was nearly thirty years of age when "Ships that Pass in the Night" was published. As a matter of fact, Miss Harraden had decided upon a musical career, and her love of music took the form of 'cello playing. She was a pupil of Piatti, and is a great admirer of Schumann and Chopin, piano music and concerted music being very dear to her. Of late, Miss Harraden has devoted much of her time to the cause of Women's Suffrage.

Miss Beatrice Harraden E. H. Mills