By John Guisborough.
Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.
A fine novel of adventure by an officer who served in the Mesopotamian
campaign for more than three years. It completes the library of those
who collect books on Mesopotamia, a land of Oriental mystery, jinn and
efreets. The English hero and heroine in hours of peril cross the
desert, passing Ur of the Chaldees, said to be the home of Abraham. All
the fascination of the Near East, its Arabs and Turks, its deserts and
rivers are here vividly portrayed.
By the Author of "Happy Ever After."
WHEN I WAS A QUEEN IN BABYLON
By Rose Allatini.
Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.
A brilliant novel.
BRY OF HAG FELL
By Richard Chater.
Crown 8vo. 6s. net.
Mr. Chater gives us a story which does something more than interest and
excite the reader. It does more than hold his attention from the first
page to the last. It haunts the memory.
This is the test of a masterpiece.
The story is the chronicle of a swift year of passion in the lives of
two sisters and one man. In quite different ways these two sisters are
lovable English girls, so charming and graceful that they find
additional lovers with every reader of the book. The man, belonging to a
different class, is a son of the wild country, with a drive in his
temperament which is like a torrent. How love played with these lives is
the drama of the tale.
The story is set in the midst of the Yorkshire fells, and the grandeur
of those mountainous solitudes invests the tale with a sensible
greatness. The reader forgets all the conventions of society and all the
restrictions of the town. He finds himself listening to a movement of
the human heart in the midst of nature's eternal indifference to
mankind.
Mr. Chater writes with an extraordinary swiftness, getting all his
effects without verbosity and without effort. His passionate sympathy
with human nature and his deep knowledge of men and women are evident
throughout the story, so that the reader lives with his people, loves
with them, hates with them, rejoices with them, sorrows with them, and
in the end finds he is haunted by their memory.
CRÊPE DE CHINE
By W. Edward Stirling.
Crown 8vo 3s. 6d. net.
This is the novelization of the play by F. Brett Young and W. Edward
Stirling about to be produced in London and the provinces.
Recent Additions to Mills & Boon's List.
By the Author of "The Mirrors of Downing Street."
THE GLASS OF FASHION
SOME SOCIAL REFLECTIONS.
By "A Gentleman with a Duster." Second Edition.
Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
The Spectator.--"... he is destined to light a match which in the future
may be used to light a candle that will illuminate our little corner of
the world. To hope more would be to hope too much. And yet how great,
how tremendous a destiny we are half-prophesying for our author!"
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