The Author can write a rattling good yarn, full of excitement and real mystery. Thoroughly brisk in action, the story is told in a virile and spirited manner. * * * * * Lights and Shadows By Effie Adelaide Rowlands When the wealthy Miss Martingate died she left her money away from the family and to her servant Hester Slayde. Michael alone of the family showed himself kindly disposed, and Hester's path was by no means one of roses. Then, close upon her good fortune, arrived the letter from Elizabeth Charlbury to the dead woman, asking for help. How the help was not denied her by Hester Slayde, and what gratitude, or ingratitude, was returned for it, and what byways were entered by those chiefly concerned, is told by Miss Rowlands with all her accustomed skill in telling a romance. _Other popular Stories by this Author:_ The Rose of Life The Game of Life Carlton's Wife A Dangerous Woman They Laugh that Win The Flame of Love In Love's Land Young Hearts A Girl with a Heart Through Weal and Through Woe Love's Young Dream Out of a Clear Sky Money or Wife? Brave Love Sunset and Dawn The Man from the West The Man she Loved "Miss Rowlands has the reputation of producing extremely readable wholesome novels."--_The Aberdeen Journal_. * * * * * Castle Perilous By Katharine Tynan Maurice, still suffering from the effects of a serious wound received in the trenches, was completely dominated by his old schoolmistress, who had gone out to nurse him, and the struggle between her fierce maternal hunger to hold him at her side and his desire for freedom from her obsessing influence, makes a story of singular strength and interest, with an unusual climax of dramatic intensity. Side by side with this more sombre theme there runs a beautiful romance, and Miss Katharine Tynan is seen at her best in the drawing of a lovable girl. _Other popular Stories by this Author:_ Princess Katharine Dear Lady Bountiful My Love's but a Lassie The Briar Bush Maid The House on the Bogs The Heiress of Wyke Pat the Adventurer The Wild Adventure Miss Phipps The Face in the Picture "Clean wholesome love stories, free from intrigue and sensationalism, and containing well-drawn characters and good dialogue." * * * * * That Fool Peter By Ashley Milner