THE KENNEDY PEOPLE. By W. Pett Ridge, Author of 

 'The Happy Recruit.' 

 The author is, in this novel, still faithful to London, but he sets out here to 

 till something like fresh ground. A description is given of three generations of a 

 family, and particulars are conveyed of the kind of chart that represented their 

 advances and their retreats. The story is told in Mr. Pett Ridge's lively and 

 characteristic manner. 



Mr. GREX OF MONTE CARLO. By E. Phillips Oppen- 



heim, Author of ■ Master of Men.' 

 Mr. Oppenheim has never written a more absorbing story than this one, in 

 which an adventurous young American first falls in love, then into trouble, and 

 becomes a part of events that are making history. In Monte Carlo three men 

 skilled in international intrigue meet in secret conference ; two Ministers of 

 foreign affairs and a Grand Duke plan to make over the map of Europe, while a 

 diplomat representing a fourth great world power, aided by skilled secret service 

 men, aims to thwart their endeavours. Then — enter the American. How young 

 Richard Lane, wealthy and used to having his own way, fell in love with 

 mysterious Mr. Grex's daughter, how he was not discouraged even when he 

 found out what an important personage Mr. Grex really was, how he took a 

 hand in events and caused an upset, is told in a thrilling love story that lays 

 bare the methods of modern international diplomatists and incidentally conveys a 

 warning to America to arm herself against the possibilities of war. 



THE EVIL DAY. By Lady Troubridge. 



In this book Lady Troubridge abandons for the first time the study of the very 

 young girl, to give us one of a woman of forty, who, until the story opens, has 

 led a quiet, retired and domestic existence. Circumstances, however, bring the 

 heroine face to face with modern life and its developments in their most vivid 

 form, and she does not pass through the experience altogether unscathed. 



THE SECRET SON. By Mrs. Henry Dudeney. 



Mrs. Henry Dudeney's new novel is a delightful story of the Sussex Downs. 

 Its types and characters are rustic, and in it comedy and tragedy are skilfully 

 mingled by this most accomplished writer. The theme of the book is the relation 

 between mother and son. 



DEMI-ROYAL. By Ashton Hilliers, Author of ' The Adven- 

 tures of a Lady of Quality.' 

 That the famous Mrs. Fitzherbert, legal and loyal wife of the Regent, may 

 have borne him a child is indisputable. That she did so is the author's thesis in 

 this diverting romance ; and the fortunes of this child, legitimate, but un-royal, 

 trepanned, lost, mourned as dead, repudiated, traced, acknowledged, are his 

 theme. The mother-love of a noble woman, the fears of a selfish voluptuary, the 

 self-sacrifice of honest York, form the warp across which runs the woof of a girl's 

 life, lived innocently and spiritedly in Puritan surroundings,_ watched over by the 

 Order of Jesus, the unconscious centre of vehement antagonisms. 



SOMETHING FRESH. By P. G. 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. 



