VICTORY. By Joseph Conrad, Author of 'Chance.' 



In this story Mr. Conrad returns to the manner of his famous early romance, 

 The Outcast of the Island. The principal character, a lawless adventurer called 

 \ Enchanted Heyst,' is one of the great figures in Mr. Conrad's gallery ; the scene 

 is laid in and about the tropical island of Samburan ; and the theme is love and 

 jealousy. 



BEALBY. By H. Q. Wells. 



This new novel is a feast of fast and furious fun. Mr. Wells throws problems 

 of all sorts to the dogs, and revels in the diverting adventures of a small boy who, 

 in the course of one brief week, works havoc in the lives of many people. 

 Delightful people are they all, as portrayed by Mr. Wells, from the self- 

 important, philosophic Lord Chancellor down to the socialistic (and very dirty) 

 tramp. 



A GREAT MAN. By Arnold Bennett, Author of ' Clayhanger.' 

 This is a new edition of a well-known novel by Mr. Arnold Bennett, called 

 by him a 'frolic.' It may be said to have paved the way for his famous comic 

 romance The Card and its sequel The Regent. In A Great Man Mr. Bennett 

 describes the life and achievements of Henry Shakespeare Knight, who from 

 humble beginnings becomes a world-famous novelist and one of the wealthiest 

 of playwrights, a goal attained only after much amusing adventure by the way. 



A YOUNG MAN'S YEAR. By Anthony Hope. 



The story of an eventful year in the life of Arthur Lisle, of the Middle Temple, 

 Esquire : recounting his fortunes and ventures, professional, speculative, and 

 romantic, and showing how he sought without finding, and found without seeking, 

 and, at the end of the year, was twelve months older and as much wiser as young 

 men are for such experiences. 



SECRET HISTORY. By C. N. and A. M. Williamson, 



Authors of 'The Lightning Conductor.' 



The title of this book refers to the ' secret history ' of a recent critical episode 

 between the United States and Mexico. Taking the form of the dramatic and 

 sensational love stories of two Irish girls and two officers, the romance has its 

 scenes partly at an army post in Texas and partly in diplomatic circles in London 

 in 1914-15. The story is told in the first person by Lady Peggy O'Malley. 



GOSSAMER. By George A. Birmingham, Author of 



'Spanish Gold.' 



In this book the principal characters are a leader in the world of international 

 finance, an Irish country gentleman who has parted with his estate, an Irish 

 journalist who is also a member of Parliament attached to the Nationalist party, 

 a lady artist, and an inventor occupied with mechanical devices. The story ends 

 with the declaration of war in August 1914, and culminates in the effect of that 

 catastrophe on the lives and fortunes of the various characters. 



BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS. By Marjorie Bowen. 



This story relates the inevitable tragic drama of the reckless union of 

 two diverse temperaments and races, brought together by a useless passion. 

 The scene changes from Bologna, the most dissipated city of Italy, to the 

 Calvinistic gloom of Scotland. 



THE RAINBOW. By D. H. Lawrence, Author of < Sons and 

 Lovers.' 



This story, by one of the most remarkable of the younger school of novelists, 

 contains a history of the Brangwen character through its developing crisis of 

 love, religion, and social passion, from the time when Tom Brangwen, the well- 

 to-do Derbyshire farmer, marries a Polish lady, to the moment when Ursula, his 

 granddaughter, the leading-shoot of the restless, fearless family, stands waiting 

 at the advance-post of our time to blaze a path into the future. 



