A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm,--a hedge of Blue Aloes, a cactus of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping things,--a whisper and a summons in the dead of the night,--an odor of death and the old. There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmosphere of the Veldt. * * * * * G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London The Beloved Sinner By Rachel Swete Macnamara Author of the "Fringe of the Desert," "The Torch of Life," and "Drifting Waters" One of the very prettiest of springtime romances--a tale of exuberant young spirits intoxicated with the springtime of living, of love gone adventuring on the rough road--a story, humorous with the gay impudences of a young Eve who is half-afraid and altogether delighted with her fairy-prince. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York London