Is it feasible that a sane man may be sent to a lunatic asylum? This
vital question is answered by Mr. Igglesden in "Law the Wrecker." The
author is especially qualified to deal with the subject, as he has
acted as certifying magistrate for many years and been a governor of a
county lunatic asylum. Life in a lunatic asylum is vividly and
truthfully described. The plot is an exciting one with many dramatic
situations, a young Colonial trying against heavy odds to prove his
sanity to the girl he loves, and she in turn struggling with the doubt
that racks her mind.
+MARY'S MARRIAGE.+ By Edmund Bosanquet, Author of "A Society Mother,"
"Catching a Coronet," etc.
Securing public favour at the first time of asking--such is this
author's almost unique record. That he has come to stay may be gathered
from the progressive successes he has achieved since the days of "A
Society Mother." This novel follows its predecessors in that it makes
the same direct appeal to the average human heart. Readers in their
thousands and tens of thousands will rejoice to know something about
the heroine and her wayward marriage.
+THE ENCHANTING DISTANCE.+ By Lilian Arnold, Author of "The Storm-Dog,"
etc.
This is a love story, in the development of which it becomes apparent
that things are seldom what they seem and that the most passionate
attachments are rarely based on pure reason. The adventures of the
heroine in search of a life of her own in London are told with much
humour.
+A BESPOKEN BRIDE.+ By Fred Whishaw, Author of "Nathalia," etc.
Mr. Fred Whishaw's description in this novel of the gallant little
nation, Finland, fighting to a man and woman against inevitable
absorption by the irresistible giant at the threshold, is moving and
holds the reader. Every Finn is a resister, active or passive. Some
fight wisely, some foolishly, but all fight and all sacrifice self for
the sake of the Motherland and her disappearing rights and privileges.
+SALAD DAYS.+ By the Author of "Improper Prue," "The Price of
Possession," etc.
This amusing novel can well be called a comedy of youth, for it depicts
the invasion of a well-ordered English bachelor by a good-intentioned
humourless Irish girl and twin young men of free and easy disposition.
The bachelors are Mr. Weatherby, most chivalrous of victims, and his
nephew, Richard Torr, an Oxford exquisite, who tries hard to save his
own and his uncle's dignity under the most trying conditions. It is a
book that men and women will laugh at and enjoy.
+FROM PILLAR TO POST.+ By Alice M. Diehl, Author of "Incomparable
Joan," etc.
For the many readers of Mrs. Diehl's novels the present story will be
rather a new departure in female portraiture. The heroine's
aristocratic descent, conflicting with her father's democratic ideas,
is the pivot on which much of the tale turns. Her experiences as a
wife, and yet all the time no wife, go to make up a very fascinating
romance which shows that the author has lost none of her power.
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