JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 

 BY M. P. WILLCOCKS. 



WIDDICOMBE. * Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Evening standard" Wonderfully alive and pulsating with a curious fervour 

 which brings round the reader the very atmosphere which the author describes. 

 ... A fine, rather unusual novel. . . There are some striking studies of women." 

 Truth" A first novel of most unusual promise." 

 Quein " An unusually clever book." , 



THE WINGLESS VICTORY. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Times" Such books are worth keeping on the shelves even by the classics, 

 for they are painted in colours that do not lade." 



Daily Telegraph" A novel of such power as should win for its author a 

 position in the front rank of contemporary writers of fiction." 



A MAN OF GENIUS. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Daily Telegraph-" ' Widdicombe ' was good, and ' The Wingless Victory ' 

 was perhaps better, but in ' A Man of Genius ' the author has given us something 

 that should assure her place in the front rank of our living novelists. In this 

 latest novel there is so much of character, so much of incident, and to its writing 

 has gone so much insight and observation that it is not easy to praise it without 

 seeming exaggeration." 



Punch " There is no excuse for not reading ' A Man of Genius ' and making 

 a short stay in the 'seventh Devon of de'ight.' " 



Globt" Exquisite." 



THE WAY UP. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Daily Mail" It is admirably done. . . . Eminently worth reading, full of 

 extremely clever characterisation, of sharp and picturesque contrasts in personality 

 ... a merciless exhibition of almost all the follies known as modern thought.' 1 



WINGS OF DESIRE. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



** When the curtain goes up on " Wings of Desire " it is to show Simon 

 Bodinar dancing a horn-pipe in a seaman's Mission Hall. For Simon, the Ulysses 

 of the novel, is in one sense the motive power of a tale which carries its chief 

 characters from the Narrows of the Dart to the South of South America, to a lonely 

 cove in the Straits of Magellan. It is Bodinar's doggerel rhyme, 

 " Off Diego Bamires, where the Ilde-fonos roar, 

 There's gold, there's gold, there's gold galore," 



that draws the men of the story Southward-ho. For " Wings of Desire " is in 

 frame-work the tale of a treasure-hunt, while in subject it is a study of the 

 character interactions of a group of ultra-modern people people prepared to bring 

 each social law to the bar oi reason and there try it for what it is worth. This, of 

 course, brings them up against the most hotly contested question of to-day- 

 marriage and divorce. " Wings of Desire " written in 1911, the year among other 

 things of the Divorce Commission, puts the case of Archer Bellew, novelist and 

 poseur, and of Sara his wife, the grave-eyed woman who stoops, not to conquer, 

 but to save. Or so she thinks. The unconventional cutting of the knot many 

 will probably call by a harsher name. But the book is a human instance, not a 

 dogma. It ends with a question. The answer, the verdict, is with the reader; an 

 answer, a verdict, which will differ according to whether his eyes are turned 

 backward into the past or forward into the future. 



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