The lure of adventure, the lure of a strong and unscrupulous personality, and the lure of the Dark Continent, play their parts in this story. Anne, the woman of the book, comes under the influence of all three, to learn at the last that they have only enchained her imagination and not her heart. A great part of this notable novel takes place in the less known parts of the Soudan, where the main actors in the drama meet and work out their destinies. The background is that vast land of the elephant, the crocodile, and the hippopotamus, where solitary Englishmen are loyally serving their country and civilisation, without vainglory or hope of reward. THE LURE will be one of the most remarkable novels of 1912. _Novels by E. S. Stevens_ THE VEIL. 6_s._ (Cloth.) Do. 1_s._ (Paper.) THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD. 6_s._ (Cloth.) Do. 1_s._ (Paper.) THE EARTHEN DRUM. 6_s._ (Eastern Stories.) _Make the acquaintance of E. S. Stevens immediately_ MILLS & BOON, LTD., 49 RUPERT ST., LONDON, W. _A Remarkable Indian Romance_ THE DAUGHTER OF BRAHMA By I. A. R. WYLIE Author of “The Rajah’s People” and “Dividing Waters” _Crown 8vo_, =6s.= In THE DAUGHTER OF BRAHMA we are transported back to the mysterious atmosphere and brilliant Oriental colourings which marked the author’s first novel, “The Rajah’s People.” But here the complications of race and religion in India are faced from another standpoint--that of the woman. With profound sympathy we follow the wonderful moral and spiritual growth of the daughter of Brahma, whose fate becomes so strangely linked with that of the hero. With an equal interest, moreover, the reader is led step by step through an absorbing plot, in which all the hidden religious and political life of India is revealed in striking colours, until the final crisis is reached. The crisis, indeed, is an intensely dramatic and tragic one; but it satisfies not only by its truth, but by the promise of future happiness which it brings with it. The story draws into it many minor characters, who, like the two chief figures, win both interest and sympathy by their originality and life-like portraiture. _Mills & Boon confidently recommend THE DAUGHTER OF BRAHMA as one of the finest novels of 1912._ MILLS & BOON, LTD., 49 RUPERT ST., LONDON, W. _A Notable Novel_ Some years ago there appeared a very notable novel which Mills & Boon believe has got lost sight of in the rush of Fiction so energetically published by almost every firm. It was entitled-- AN ENGLISHMAN By MARY PENDERED How many readers of to-day remember it? Mills & Boon will shortly issue a new and revised edition at =6s.=, and they hope the public will not miss this chance of reading one of the finest novels of the last fifteen years. Some reviews are here given which appeared when the book was originally published.