This is Miss Magruder's most powerful novel; in fact, it is the novel on which, in her own opinion, her literary reputation will rest. In it she displays to the full her command of the arts of the storyteller, her ability to lead the reader breathlessly from climax to climax, her power as a delineator of character, her broad acquaintance with human nature and her knowledge of how to express human emotions to their last, tingling vibrations. The story centres around the puzzling character of Egbert Lothian. And here indeed is a man who is a mystery from the very beginning of the novel--in his wooing, in his courtship, in his marriage to the remarkable heroine of the story,--the charming young American girl whom this interesting, distinguished Scotchman so captivates--in his married life--and who grows more and more remarkable and mystifying, even to his wife, as the romance goes on, until near the close of the story the wife and the reader are amazed and held breathless at a disclosure of which neither she nor any one else had the slightest hint or conception. Through the whole gamut of human emotions the girl in this novel passes, and the reader follows her and the man at her side with wonder and fascination. During its publication in the columns of a current popular magazine this novel created a storm of discussion. For serial purposes the story was condensed to about half its length. In book form it is now for the first time presented in its entirety. SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY Publishers, Boston * * * * * AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN NOVEL THE MARRIAGE PORTION By H. A. MITCHELL KEAYS Author of "The Road to Damascus," "He That Eateth Bread With Me," etc. $1.35 net; by mail, $1.48 In her new book, which is by far her most important, Mrs. Keays discusses her favorite theme--marriage. She lays the scene of her story in a modern university city which many readers will recognize, and she portrays the life there with an unsparing, but just, understanding. As usual, she develops her characters with unerring skill. In fact, she depicts all her people, both admirable and otherwise, so naturally, so truly, indeed so perfectly, that the delighted reader will be inclined to believe that she writes of real living, breathing, human beings, existing in the flesh in the shadow of a great American university.