Mr. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements 13 
THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW 
ROOM. 
By GASTON LEROUX. 
Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s. 
This mysterious and fascinating story has not yet been published 
in a form adapted for library reading, and it may be confidently 
expected to prove the same wonderful success in this edition as in 
the cheap sixpenny issue which made such an impression upon a 
section of the public not repelled by small type and paper covers. 
The book deserves to have a place beside the classic works of 
Gaboriau, and can safely be recommended as one of the most 
thrilling mysteries of modern fiction. 
ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE. 
Stories of the World's Spring=time. 
By W. M. L. HUTCHINSON, 
AvuTHOR oF ‘THE GOLDEN Porcu,’ ETc. 
Illustvated. Crown 8vo., cloth. 5s. 
In this book some of the earliest and most beautiful of Greek 
myths are presented under the guise of stories told to the child Orpheus 
by the Muses, whom he meets on nine moonlight nights in their 
woodland haunts. Thus, the first part, entitled ‘The Making of 
a Minstrel,’ forms a ‘Forest Night’s Entertainment,’ including, 
among others, the legends of Prometheus, Pandora, the Coming of 
Apollo to Delphi, Demeter and her Maiden, and the fortunes of 
Cadmus and his house. The shorter second part deals with Orpheus 
the Singer, and ‘his half-regained Eurydice,’ and takes us to the 
Underworld, where the minstrel hears from the shades of ancient 
heroes—Sisyphus, Ixion, Meleager—the tale of their crime or 
misfortune. We are shown the realm of Pluto, not in the darker 
colouring of Virgil’s pencil, but as Greek imagination pictured it, 
a shadowy land where souls dwell, as in Dante’s Limbo, ‘only so 
far afflicted that they live Desiring without hope.’ The fate of 
Orpheus is reticently and simply told, and the story has the happiest 
of endings—in the Elysian Fields. 
