Here are extracts from the review of the French edition in the _Times Literary Supplement_ of March 25, 1920: “A book which can be read with pleasure and recommended without reserve. It is not only an excellent novel, but a fine piece of intuitive writing. Here there seems to be a new modern Madame Bovary, a Madame Bovary who does not commit adultery. It is that novel which recurs to one’s mind in thinking of M. Corthis’s book, without any uneasy sensation that the newer work is only a reflection of the older. M. Corthis has restated the same general situation. Flaubert worked out the resulting tragedy in one way and M. Corthis works it out quite differently, hardly with less bitterness but with equal logic.... The virtuosity of M. Corthis is never meaningless; he has created characters whose lives can become part of one’s own, as if they were familiar acquaintances.” Woman BY MAGDELEINE MARX _Cr. 8vo._ _7s. 6d. net._ “Woman” is being published simultaneously in almost every country. In France and elsewhere it is the subject of lectures and long essays by prominent professors. The author became a celebrity in a day. The most famous men and women, unsolicited, expressed amazed enthusiasm about this strikingly new creation and the young, gifted authoress—Romain Rolland, Georg Brandes, Israel Zangwill, Bertrand Russell, Henri Barbusse, Isadora Duncan and others. Here are extracts from what some of them say:— ROMAIN ROLLAND.—“It is the work of a great talent, a vigorous work.” GEORG BRANDES.—“An admirable book, original, profound, daring.” HENRI BARBUSSE.—“This book has created a sensation in France. I have no hesitation in applying to it the words ‘genius’ and ‘masterpiece.’” The Burning Secret BY STEFAN ZWEIG _Cr. 8vo._ _6s. net._ A brilliant psychological study of a clever child. The story deals with a single episode in his life, when he is staying at a holiday resort with his mother. He is at the impressionable age when the conflict between childhood and young adolescence has just set in. The writer’s shrewd insight into the child’s mind at this age of dawning perceptions is remarkable. _NEW NOVELS_ The Vampire BY M. C. T. SAWBRIDGE _Cr. 8vo._ _Cloth, 7s. 6d. net._ This story deals, for the most part, with the machinations of a beautiful unscrupulous woman, greedy for love, greedy for emotion, greedy for the first place with all. She is the indirect cause of her husband’s death; and nearly succeeds in spoiling the life of her only son, and that of the child of her oldest friend. She took, and gave nothing, and left her mere beauty to repay those duped fools who laid down their best at her feet. For she had nothing else to give. Queen’s Knight BY CHESTER KEITH _Cr. 8vo._ _7s. 6d. net._