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leads us via Port Said to Smyrna. There and in the interior 

 of Turkey-in-Asia are laid the scenes of Tony Paynter's adventures. 

 It is in the Smyrna bazaars that he and Sylvia Sayers first 

 encounter the Turk who is destined to play so important a rdle in 

 their two lives, and it is from Smyrna that, at last, they sail away 

 when all has happily ended. 



BETTY HARRIS 



By JENNETTE LEE, Author of 'Uncle William' and 



' Happy Island.' Crown 8vo, 35. 6d. 



Betty Harris, the only child of an American millionaire, strays one 

 day into the shop of a Greek fruit-dealer, Achilles Alexandrakis, 

 and watches the flight of a butterfly that the Greek liberates from its 

 grey cocoon. The story is of the friendship that grew out of this 

 meeting, and a rescue that grew out of the friendship. This blend of 

 the spirit of the old world and the new, meeting in the grimy Chicago 

 shop and finding out their need of each other, gives the book a 

 piquancy. 



CHARLES THE GREAT 



By Mrs. H. H. PENROSE, Author of 'The Sheltered 



Woman,' etc. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



Charles the Great is a very light comedy, and it therefore counts 

 as a new departure for Mrs. H. H. Penrose. Those who like their 

 fiction to provide them with ' a good laugh ' will doubtless prefer this 

 book, which is packed from cover to cover with mirth-provoking 

 material, to those other books by the same author, in which humour 

 acts chiefly as train-bearer to tragedy. The determination of Charles 

 to invent for himself a greatness which he is incapable of otherwise 

 achieving, and its effect on his circle of intimates, are set forth in an 

 exceedingly lively story, the plot of which it would be unfair to give 

 away. 



THE ACE OF HEARTS 



By C. THOMAS-STANFORD. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



An English Member of Parliament, spending a holiday in the 

 Portuguese island of Madeira in January 1912, becomes unwittingly 

 privy to a plot against the Republican Government. The conspirators, 

 fearful that he will betray their secrets, make him prisoner ; but he 

 escapes to experience a series of adventures on the rugged coast, and 

 amid the wild mountains of the island. Through the tangled web of 

 plot and counterplot runs the thread of a love story. 



LYNETTE 



By JOHN OVERTON. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



Although Lynette t by a new writer, does not claim to be an historical 

 novel, it is based on facts connected with the struggle between the 

 Cavaliers and Roundheads, and is a wholesome story of love and 

 adventure, of bard fighting and high ideals. 



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