England in the time of Richard III forms the setting for this tale of romance and adventure, which takes place close about the throne. Beatrix, beauty, heiress, and Countess of Clare, is won by the young knight and courtier, De Lacy, beneath the friendly smiles of both king and queen, while their love affair is troubled by abduction and bloodshed, and influenced by the great events which stir the kingdom and even threaten the crown. The novel is full of "go" from start to finish. "Not a dull line in the book." _Pittsburg Dispatch._ "The story is ennobling as well as bright and fascinating." _Baltimore Sun._ "Holds the interest closely to the end." _Boston Ev. Transcript_ "Noteworthy as a real contribution to historical romance." _San Francisco Chronicle._ FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA _A NOVEL OF COMPELLING INTEREST_ The Heart of Desire By ELIZABETH DEJEANS _Author of "The Winning Chance."_ WITH COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE KINNEYS 12MO. CLOTH, $1.50 A remarkable novel, full of vital force, which gives us a glimpse into the innermost sanctuary of a woman's soul--a revelation of the truth that to a woman there may be a greater thing than the love of a man--the story pictured against a wonderful Southern California background. "One of the big headliners in bookland."--_Detroit News._ "The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily."--_Chicago Tribune._ "One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic excellence of which is uniform and even throughout."--_Charleston News and Courier._ "There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy. But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most beautiful human qualities--or rather, brings those latent emotions to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman 'lied to, tortured, duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated'; and in giving up her beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the 'helpless, motherless, hampered' child who so passionately claimed his love, Kate's humanism stands out in almost supernatural power."--_Boston Evening Transcript._ J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA