The love story of Mary Queen of Scots has always fascinated. Probably no other woman in the world has been so violently attacked or so stanchly defended. Wonderful indeed her fascination and charm must have been. Certainly no one can read the history of her times without realizing that she exercised over men a sway that has hardly been rivalled by any other woman since the world began. Three centuries after her death she still sways men’s minds and hearts. It is the love story of this fascinating woman which Mr. Hewlett has taken for the foundation of his new novel; which opens while Mary, a widow of nineteen, is still at the Court of Catherine de’ Medici, and continues through all the stormy era of her life in Scotland. The story is vital with interest and alive with action; and plot, intrigue, and counterplot mingle and cross and move toward the end. Through it all walks Mary, magnetic, passionately alive, and very human woman. THE COURT OF SACHARISSA By HUGH T. SHERINGHAM and NEVILL MEAKIN Cloth 12mo $1.50 This is a piece of gentle, delicate fooling; as the sub-title puts it, “a midsummer idyl compiled out of the traditions of the Irresponsible Club.” Purely fanciful, and light as air, the tale is instinct with the grace and charm which make Henry Harland’s recent books so captivating. Besides, it contains real humor. THE WOMAN ERRANT _By the Author of “The Garden of a Commuter’s Wife” and “People of the Whirlpool”_ Cloth 12mo $1.50 The same unfailing charm pervades “The Woman Errant” which readers of “The Garden of a Commuter’s Wife” and “People of the Whirlpool” will so well remember. Less a garden book than its predecessors, and more a novel, this new story reveals a growth in power that will delight the admirers of the author’s preceding work, while it will also attract many new friends. One of its phases touches on a curious social phenomenon of the present day, which has become strongly marked, yet which is absolutely untouched hitherto in fiction—the challenge of the woman domestic by the woman errant. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK