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, Mahara, ' 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 Cotterell, 

 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. 



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 life and that of the 

 girl he loves. 



THE ELIXIR OF LIFE. By Arthur Ransome, Author of 

 1 Oscar Wilde,' ' Edgar Allan Poe.' 

 This is a fascinating story of mystery, magic, and love. It concerns John 

 Killigrew, a disciple of Paracelsus, who is an amateur of the black art, and who, 

 with the aid of the elixir of life, had already lived several times the allotted span. 

 Richard Stanborough, a young beau, visits him, and is charmed by the mysterious 

 Rose, whom Killigrew calls his sister, but who is really the daughter of Killigrew's 

 servant in his last incarnation. Richard falls in love with her, and having refused 

 to take the elixir himself, escapes with Rose from Killigrew. In attempting to 

 get back the precious phial Killigrew gets killed. The scene is laid in the 

 eighteenth century. 



SUSAN PROUDLEIGH. By Herbert Q. de Lisser, Author 

 of 'Jane's Career.' 

 This is a tale of the Tropics. The scenes are laid in the sunlit city of 

 Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, and in the rain-drenched Republic of Panama. 

 We have glimpses of the building of the great Panama Canal, and of the life of 

 thousands of British West Indians attracted to Panama by the prospects of good 

 fortune. The principal characters in the book are of mixed blood, intensely 

 humorous, and strongly pro-British in sentiment. Love, jealousy, and ambition 

 are seen at work in a setting not familiar to English readers. 



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