Cévennes Mountains (France); France -- Description and travel
All who are interested in the suffragette movement—and who is
not?—will read Lucas Cleeve's new novel with profit and pleasure.
The story is set some ten years ahead, when women are allowed to
vote for Parliament; but although there is much in the novel of
a quasi-political character, it is the love side of it which is
uppermost, and which will call for highest appreciation. As an exponent
of the "tender passion," few living novelists can compare with Lucas
Cleeve.
=VALDORA= By THOMAS PINKERTON
"Valdora" belongs to the order of romance which is a perpetual joy to
the novel reader. A Princess of a small State secures the services of
an Englishman to defend her possessions from the attacks of envious
neighbours. There is the clash of arms, and the delight of love.
"Valdora" suggests the method of Mr. Anthony Hope, with whose work it
will well bear comparison.
=A WIFE FROM THE FORBIDDEN LAND= By ARCHER PHILIP CROUCH
The particular fascination of Mr. A. P. Crouch's new story is that
the scene of its operations is placed in that weird, mysterious land,
Thibet. A young Englishman of the self-reliant, strong, and adventurous
type determines to visit Lhasa—the sacred Thibetan capital—a city which
the foreigner is not allowed to explore upon pain of death. How the
Englishman succeeds in his object, and how he brings back with him "A
Wife from the Forbidden Land," is the function of the story to tell.
Mr. Crouch knows the peoples of the wonderful East like a native; and
his book is not only an engrossing romance: it is a vivid presentment
of the customs, institutions, and manners of a land which is as yet but
little known to the European.
=A YANKEE NAPOLEON= By JOHN F. MACPHERSON
The "Yankee Napoleon" is a scientist who manufactures a brain serum,
by which his own intellect and will-power are so enormously increased
that the whole of America lies helpless at his feet. He uses his power,
not like a benevolent genius, but like a criminal lunatic who is held
in check by no law, human or divine. How, after a devastating war,
in which East and West are involved, the "Yankee Napoleon's" plans
are frustrated and brought to nothingness by an English scientist
and a Japanese Marquis, the reader must discover for himself. He is
confidently promised a story unique in plot and inventive power, full
of amazing thrills, and written with the pen of a wizard.
=A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF EVE= By DANIEL DOUGLAS BREWER
The action of this story is placed in Paris, and the characters
are wholly French, but "A Full-Length Portrait of Eve" will appeal
with irresistible force to English readers. In its essence it is a
love-story—a fiery, passionate, overwhelming love-story; and it is
written with a beauty of phrase and a distinctive style rarely to be
found in the work of a new writer.
=THE JEWEL HOUSE= By Mrs. ISABEL SMITH
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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