In this new novel the author treats his readers to a splendid story of society and studio life in New York city. It is a novel that holds attention from the first, having all the interest and fascination of a Chambers society story, with the added charm of the gay artists' life in a great city with its frank camaraderie, witty small talk and undisguised disregard of convention. It is a great love story, concerning itself with Valerie West, a gently bred girl, who from a cloistered life with an invalid mother comes to the studio of Louis Neville, an artist of aristocratic and snobbish ancestry. She seeks employment as a model, and her beauty readily wins an audience, while her physical perfections suit the work that Neville has in hand, so that she is eagerly engaged. The story follows this association through a rapid progress from intellectual companionship, pure friendship and then fervid love. Love triumphant over tradition is the concluding note of the story. "Mr. Chambers has written charmingly as usual. He has a most fascinating manner of putting abstractions and theorizings into seemingly pulsating actuality, and his delineation of human emotions is so boldly and palpably real he is able to illustrate it with the most fantastic and wonderful circumstances."--_Des Moines Register-Leader._ "Mr. Chambers has achieved a virtually flawless novel."--_Hartford Courant._ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON BOOKS BY W. B. MAXWELL Mrs. Thompson The story deals with a woman who had won for herself an enviable position in the business world, when she is persuaded to marry one of her employees, who turns out to be an adventurer. Her disappointment strengthens her already wonderfully strong character, and the outcome of the story is as amazing as it is unusual. _12mo. Cloth, $1.30 net._ The Rest Cure The story of a husband who is absolutely wrapped up in his business, devotes all his days and nights to it, allows his wife to do as she likes. She looks about for other companionship; suddenly they both wake up to the situation that the husband is ruining his life by his work and that the wife is ruining herself through lack of companionship with her husband. "The book grips like a steel trap, and only the stupid could read it unmoved."--_Chicago Record-Herald._ _12mo, Cloth, $1.50 net._ Seymour Charlton The story of the love and marriage of a young English earl and the daughter of a shopkeeper. She does not at first succeed in her new position. Later, however, she becomes a great lady in every sense of the word, only to discover that her husband has become entangled with a woman of a fast life. Charlton's tardy recognition of his wife's worth meets no response from her. But having finally broken with the other woman, he starts in all over again to win his wife's love. _Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50._ The Guarded Flame