DAVID PENSTEPHEN. By Richard Pryce, Author of 



Christopher.' 



The author deals with the early years of a boy's life. The action of the story, 

 opening abroad, and then moving to London and to English country houses, 

 takes place in the seventies. The story is almost as much the story of David's 

 mother as of David himself, and shows, against a background of the manners of 

 the time, the consequences of a breaking away from the established order. How, 

 under the shadow, David's childhood is yet almost wholly happy, and how on the 

 threshold of manhood he is left ready his heart's desire in view to face life in 

 earnest and to make a new name for himself in his own way, these pages tell. 



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. QREX 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 dis- 

 couraged 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, and the reader passes to the close of a very human 

 story with a most absorbing interest. 



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. 



