=THE UNSEEN EAR= By NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN The author of “The Red Seal” and other great successes has never built up a more baffling mystery than this. A man is murdered in a Washington home; in the room sits a girl who is deaf and does not hear what passes. Suspicion points in all directions before the final surprising climax. =PENGARD AWAKE= By RALPH STRAUS The most thrilling depiction since “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” of the struggle in a man’s soul between the powers of good and evil. Actual psychological fact is the basis of this remarkable story of the love of two men, one malignant, the other sweet and gentle, for the same woman. =JOHN SENESCHAL’S MARGARET= By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE John Tempest, imprisoned in Turkey, loses all memory of his true identity. Returning to England he is believed to be John Seneschal, and is welcomed by the true John Seneschal’s parents and even by his sweetheart Margaret. =THE AGE OF INNOCENCE= By EDITH WHARTON This great popular success marks the pinnacle of Mrs. Wharton’s art thus far. It tells an absorbing story of New York Society in its days of innocence, about 1880. “One of the best novels of the twentieth century”, says William Lyon Phelps in the _New York Times_. =MISS LULU BETT= By ZONA GALE A splendid novel that portrays the sudden flowering of happiness in the life of the family drudge, Miss Lulu Bett. Every word of the book counts and the characters, from Grandma Bett to the child Monona, are unsurpassed for living qualities. =CHILDREN IN THE MIST= By GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN Stories that depict the virtues, the limitations, the sweetness and the humor of the negro, from the emancipation down to the present day. There is a true insight into the nature of this people, who after fifty-six years of freedom, still see as in a glass, darkly. =LUCINDA= By ANTHONY HOPE This is the romance of a missing bride, who disappears on her wedding day, leaving the world baffled and her fiancée ready to pursue her to the ends of the earth. All of Anthony Hope’s charming ability and knowledge of how to construct a truly readable story are found in “Lucinda”. =THE PORTYGEE= By JOSEPH C. LINCOLN Rich humor and insight into human nature are in this entertaining novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Everyone enjoys its story of a romantic young fellow who goes to live down East with his grandfather, a typical old salt. This is a best-seller, by the author of “Shavings”. =THE ADVENTUROUS LADY= By J. C. SNAITH “Witty, amusing, as light and sparkling as sun-flecked foam”—_New York Times_. The daughter of an English peer changes places with a governess, when traveling to the same destination, where each is unknown. The results are highly entertaining. =NANCY GOES TO TOWN= By FRANCES R. STERRETT