SOMETHINQ NEW. By P. Q. Wodehouse, Author of *The 

 Little Nugget.' 

 The treatment of this story is farcical, but all the characters are drawn care- 

 fully as if it were a comedy. Ashe Marson, a struggling writer of adventure 

 stories, sees an advertisement in a paper in which ' a young man of good appear- 

 ance who is poor and reckless, is needed for a delicate and perilous enterprise.' 

 Joan Valentine, the heroine, who has been many things in her time, also answers an 

 advertisement requiring ' a woman to conduct a delicate and perilous enterprise.* 



THE HIGHWAYMAN. By H. C. Bailey, Author of 'A 

 Gentleman Adventurer.' 

 This is a story set in the last years of Queen Anne. Naturally, Jacobite and 

 Hanoverian plots and conspirators furnish much of the incident. They are, 

 however, only a background to the hero and heroine, whose love with its 

 adventures and misadventures is the main subject of the novel. Though Marl- 

 borough and the Old Pretender, Queen Anne and other figures of history play 

 their part, it is the hero and heroine who hold the centre of the stage. 



THE YELLOW CLAW. By Sax Rohmer, Author of 'Dr. 

 Fu-Manchu.' 

 This is an enthralling tale of Eastern mystery and crime in a European setting. 

 The action moves from an author's flat in Westminster to the ' Cave of the Golden 

 Dragon,' Shadwell, and the weird Catacombs below the level of the Thames, and 

 circles round ' Mr. King,' the sinister and unseen president of the Kan-Suh Opium 

 Syndicate. We meet with the beautiful Eurasian, Mahdra, ' Our Lady of the 

 Poppies,' and are introduced to M. Gaston Max, Europe's greatest criminologist, 

 and to the beetle-like Chinaman, Ho- Pin. 



THE OCEAN SLEUTH. By Maurice Drake. 



This is an exciting story, by one of the most promising of the younger novelists, 

 of perils by sea and criminal hunting by land. The tale begins with some exciting 

 salvage while off the Cornish coast, and passes on to the allurements of detective 

 work in England and Brittany. In Austin Voogdt, the hero, Mr. Drake has 

 created a commanding figure in romance. 



THE PERPETUAL CHOICE. By Constance Cottereli, 



Author of ' The Virgin and the Scales.' 

 The Perpetual Choice runs between poverty and wealth, passion and prejudice, 

 London and the country, and is the story of a high-spirited girl. She has to dis- 

 cover the precariousness of housekeeping on enthusiasm with her strange friends, 

 and finds that poverty is partly fun and partly a blight. Three men love her, all 

 differently, and when she falls in love her crisis has come. 



CHARLES QUANTRILL. By Evelyn Apted. 



A story of quiet charm and of intense human interest. The interest of the 

 book does not depend on sensational effects, but rather in the endeavour to apply 

 insight and imagination to the faithful description of events and problems which 

 might confront any one of its readers. The scene shifts at times from England 

 to South Africa, Norway, and the Riviera. A perfectly natural sequence of events 

 leads to the marriage of a girl of strong character with a man of principles less 

 high than her own. The writer brings the story to a dramatic close about two 

 years after the marriage. 



LITTLE HEARTS. By Marjorie L. Pickthall. 



A story of the Forest and the Downs in the troubled times of the eighteenth 

 century, telling how Mr. Sampson, a gentleman engaged in the production of a 

 Philosophy of Poverty, rescues and shelters one Anthony Oakshott, who is thrown 

 from horseback over his wall, and whom he takes for an heroic Jacobite, much 

 wanted by the King's men. By so doing he changes his own hfe and that of the 

 girl he loves. 



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