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Mr. Edward Arnold's List of New Books 
THE SEEKERS. 
By FRANK SAVILE, 
Author of ‘The Desert Venture,’ etc. 
Crown 8 vo, 6s. 
This is a stirring novel of adventure in Eastern Europe. A learned 
Professor astonishes the British Association by announcing that he 
has located the famous lost treasure of Diocletian, as buried some¬ 
where in the principality of ‘ Montenera.’ This little State with its 
brave Prince is hard pressed for funds to defend itself against more 
powerful neighbours who aim at absorbing it, and the treasure would 
be invaluable. Whether it was discovered or not, the reader learns 
in the course of a spirited and exciting story. In reviewing the 
author’s last novel, ‘The Desert Venture,’ the Times said: ‘When 
you have agreed to treat it as crude adventure, it is really as good 
as you can wish.’ The World said : ‘ If Mr. Savile’s style is to some 
extent modelled on that of Merriman, this is no fault, but a virtue. 
And the reading world will find that it may safely welcome such work 
as this on its own account—as it assuredly will.* 
THE WITCH’S SWORD. 
By DAVID KERR FULTON. 
Illustrated. Crown 8 vo. 6s. 
This work, by a new author, is of a highly imaginative and romantic 
tendency, and deals with a most interesting period in Scottish history. 
The hero, who tells his own story, is an All Hallows child, born in 
the one weird hour which makes him kith and kin to the spirits of 
the air. The mystery of Flodden and the strange events grouped 
round the ancient tradition as to the fate of the gallant James are 
stirringly told, and lead up to the denouement, which comes with 
vivid unexpectedness at the close of the book. 
The lonely orphan of a wronged father is unwittingly schooled to 
vengeance by the fiery Welsh swordsman Jevan, who, at the 
instigation of the dying old nurse, forges the wizard steel that gives 
the story its name. 
A tender love idyll is woven into the tale and relieves the scenes 
of violence through which the wearer of the Witch’s Sword must 
fight his way to honour and acceptance. 
