4 METHUEN'S POPULAR NOVELS 



THE ANGLO-INDIANS 



By ALICE PERRIN, Author of ' The Charm.' Third 



Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



The background of this novel is the contrast between official life in 

 India and a pensioned existence in England. The theme of the story 

 is the affection, almost amounting to a passion, that the heroine feels 

 towards India, where she has spent part of her childhood and her early 

 girlhood ; it leads to a love adventure involving the chief problem 

 between the East and West. 



MARY PECHELL 



By Mrs. BELLOC LOWNDES, Author of ' The Uttermost 

 Farthing,' etc. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 

 In her new novel Mrs. Belloc Lowndes returns to the manner of 

 Barbara Rebell. It is an ample, spacious tale of English country- 

 house life, laid in a quiet Sussex village, dominated by the ruins of an 

 ancient castle, the scene of the last Lord Wolferstan's lawless but not 

 ignoble passion. The writer shows all her old power of presenting the 

 passion of love in each of its Protean phases. Mary Pechell herself is 

 a lovely, gracious figure, whose compelling charm the reader feels from 

 the first. In half-humorous, half-pathetic contrast is the middle-aged 

 romance of Miss Rose Charnwood, touched with the tenderest senti- 

 ment, and not belied by the happiness in store both for her and for 

 Mary Pechell herself. 



THE SUBURBAN 



By H. C BAILEY, Author of 'Storm and Treasure.' 



Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



In this novel Mr. H. C. Bailey, who is best known by his spirited 

 historical romances, has deserted the past for the present. He tells a 

 story of modern London. The scenes are laid in poor middle-class 

 life, in the worlds of journalism and theoretical revolutionaries and 

 business. His hero is one of the most ordinary of men, fighting his 

 way up from the borders of poverty to respectable suburban comfort. 

 With him is contrasted a much more brilliant creature, an apostle of 

 the newest creeds of revolt. Both have to do with the master of one 

 of the great modern organizations of finance and industry. In the 

 heroine Mr. Bailey has given us a study of one of the newest types of 

 young women of the middle class. 



THE HAPPY FAMILY 



By FRANK SWINNERTON, Author of ' The Young Idea.' 



Crown 8vo, 6s. 



The Happy Family is a realistic comedy of life in London suburbs. 

 The scenes are laid principally in Kentish Town, with excursions to 

 Hampstead, Highgate, and Gospel Oak ; while unusual pictures of 

 the publishing trade form a setting to the highly important office-life 

 of the chief male characters. The interplay of diverse temperaments, 

 the conflict between the ideal and the actual, are the basis of the story, 

 which, however, is concerned with people rather than problems. 



