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1913. 



tures, which take place in Canada and in 

 London. The characterisation is delight- 

 fully clear, but of twin brothers one is so 

 bitterly revengeful that his actions are 

 improbably inhuman. 



Black Honey. By C. Ranger-Gull. (Green- 

 ing, 3/6.) 

 A thrilling romance involving an English 

 General, his daughter, and a young ship's 

 doctor. Sir Henry Baird had brought to 

 light the plots of the Rosicrucians, one of 

 the most ancient of secret societies, during 

 his term in Malta ; and with the whole force 

 of Scotland Yard against them, they nearly 

 succeeded in revenging themselves by kill- 

 ing him. 



Swirling Waters. Bv Max Rittenberg. 

 (Methuen. 3/6.) 



An exciting novel of modern financial life, 

 in which a millionaire, tiring of the whirl- 

 pool, takes advantage of an accident to 

 allow himself to be supposed dead. He has 

 made one mistake, however, and this means 

 that a slight thread connects him with his 

 past and compels his return to life and 

 duty. 



A Far Cry. By Frank Desmond. (Long. 

 3/6.) 

 The cry is far, because the couple concerned 

 are first introduced to lis at a Druid Con- 

 vention in the time of Julius Caesar, when 

 the two lovers, Iseult and Cynvelin, elope, 

 Iseult leaving her husband and her little 

 child because the inner voice has told her 

 that love must come before everything. 

 The reincarnated pair are next met with 

 in India, where they are saved from com- 

 mitting the misdeed of their earlier life. . 



An Indian Mystery. By M. Henuiker 

 Andrews. (Lynwood & Co.) 



A novel in which the plot turns upon the 

 extraordinary disappearances one after the 

 other of an English contractor, his wife, 

 and his sister-in-law. A native inspector 

 of police and a professional moneylender 

 have planned the various abductions. In- 

 cidentally the story sheds light upon the 

 difficulties of obtaining justice in the more 

 remote villages of India. 



Olivia's Latchkey. By Hubert Bland. (Wer- 

 ner Laurie, 2/- net.) 



An amusing series of letters between a 

 young woman in her early twenties and a 

 bachelor in his late forties about her eman- 

 cipation from dull village life. The young 

 lady has £400 a year, and has never known 

 what unselfish love for anyone means. 



Therefore, life is banal, and the desire to 

 expand natural. Her London experiences 

 are not hurtful, and it would appear that 

 the two cynical friends conclude that mar- 

 riage of a kind is the best solution of the 

 position. 



The Secret City. By Joseph J. Doke. i Hod- 

 der, 3/6.) 



A tale of adventure and discovery in the 

 South of Africa, slightly reminiscent of 

 " King Solomon's Mines." A young man, 

 whose parentage is mixed Dutch ana Irish, 

 goes to stay with some relatives at Graaff- 

 Reinet, and there discovers in a portion of 

 a cliff, laid bare by the rains, an old urn 

 which contains a marvellous story of the 

 doings of one of his forefathers of the same 

 name, who loved a charming woman, and 

 founded a beautiful city in the midst of a 

 tribe of bushmen. Austin Retief is pre- 

 vented by his wife from searching himself 

 for the treasure, and so gives the secret of 

 it to the world. 



Patricia Plays a. Part. By Mabel Barnes- 

 Grundy. (Hutchinson.) 



Mrs. Barnes-Grundy disarms the most 

 valid criticism of this new novel by frankly 

 admitting its validity. She has got to get 

 a rich young woman and a rich young man 

 to the Riviera so that thev meet without 

 knowing each other's worldly desirability ; 

 and she just sends them there and causes 

 them to meet, with the open confession 

 that if she did not do so the story could 

 not have been written. There is nothing 

 more to be said. The girl goes on a small 

 allowance to a cheap pension ; she has no 

 idea of economy. The man is an artist. 

 There are others. All is for the best in the 

 world of artificial comedy. It is high- 

 spirited and cheerful and pleasant. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Williamson have here a serious 

 rival. 



The Mystify of Jeanne Marie. By Hilare 

 Barlow. (Lynwood.) 



This is a daintily written story, the scene 

 of which is laid in a quaint country village 

 in France. The old-world characters are 

 pictured very clearly, and the villager who 

 becomes a great artist in stone and his little 

 adopted daughter are friends to remember. 



The Brave Brigands. Bv May Wynne. 

 (Stanley Paul and Co., 6/-.) 



One of Miss Wynne's charming French 

 adventure stories. The period is that of 

 the devolution, and though at first one 

 might think nothing new could be told of 

 that terrible time, Miss Wynne has shown 

 us that that idea is a mistake. 



