This is a love-story with a twist in it, such as Bennett knows so well how to handle. The twist consists in the coming to Anna of unexpected wealth. She is the daughter of a miser and has been brought up under the most rigorous parsimony. She has a simple lover, in every way suited to her narrow circumstances. Then she comes of age and discovers that she is not only well off, but wealthy. What will she do with her money? Will her altered status interfere with her love affair? Will her father’s blood tell? In a vein of quiet humor, rich in whimsical character-sketching, Arnold Bennett works these problems out. Anna is another of the inhabitants of the Five Towns. The little group of friends who gather about her make us familiar with another level of Five Towns’ society. THE BOOK OF CARLOTTA: _The Autobiography of a Woman’s Heart._ Price $1.20 Net THE BOOK OF CARLOTTA presents the woman of genius--who belongs neither to the middle-class nor to any other class, but simply to her genius, and to the passions of her own heart. The book is a woman’s soul confession written in the first person. In sheer audacity of purpose it outstrips all Arnold Bennett’s other novels with the exception of THE OLD WIVES’ TALE. In the first place, it is an intimate record of a woman’s secret psychology; in the second, the woman is a woman of genius, which necessitates a continual flow of brilliancy on the author’s part; in the third, it is a novel written in the French manner by an Englishman. Carlotta is an extraordinary creation--a woman apart. She stands among the rebels of fiction and biography--the people who have dared to be what they are. The motive of her whole life is self-fulfillment as she knows it, even though this means the defiance of laws. Everything contributes to the last great climax entitled _Victory_. ARNOLD BENNETT: POCKET PHILOSOPHIES HOW TO LIVE ON TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY: A Study in Time Expenditure. _On the Conservation of Time._ Price $0.50 Net In a series of delightfully personal essays Arnold Bennett discusses the problem of how to attain happiness through living the intenser life. When he deliberately assumes the role of philosopher and friend, his wise and tolerant teachings come to us vivid with his strenuous personality. In the essay medium his strange faculty for combining wisdom with humor works unfettered. MENTAL EFFICIENCY: _On the Conservation of the Mind._ Price $0.75 Net Everybody desires to be efficient. But nearly everybody mistakenly supposes that this is a natural characteristic. That it is not, Mr. Bennett shows in his "Mental Efficiency." It is the product of concentration which in turn is the product of will-power. But will-power can be developed by concentration and Mr. Bennett shows us how to do it. THE HUMAN MACHINE: _On the Conservation of Energy._ Price $0.75 Net