Pageants -- Fiction; Villages -- England -- Fiction
A romance of chivalrous adventure, moving surely towards its
fore-ordained conclusion. John Rede Chandos married Ysa, an exiled
young queen. Subsequent developments found him a Prince Consort in
a European State, feeling slightly ridiculous and consistently,
though gallantly, out of his depth. He tells his own story, in a
self-deprecating, humorous manner, from the moment when he left his
lawyer's office until the last phase, on a mountain-top, of "a battle
he was born to lose."
THE SMUGGLER'S CAVE
By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, author of "The Search Party," "Spanish Gold,"
etc.
This is the story of the Hailey Compton Village Pageant. The people
who organised it, the vicar's wife and the local innkeeper, were
unknown to fame. It had, at first, little or no backing in the press or
aristocratic patronage. It was started in a casual, a most accidental
way. Yet the Hailey Compton Pageant excited England from end to end,
set every club in London gossiping, inspired a spate of articles in the
daily papers, gravely affected the reputation of one of our oldest and
most honoured families, and went near wrecking the prospects of one of
our historic political parties.
THE BLACK HUNTER
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
First Reviews: "James Oliver Curwood, one of the best of the romantic
translators of the life of the Canadian wilderness, has given us a
fine historical novel.... His tale is a great love story, strongly
dramatic in its episodes, and the fight at the end of the book
is Homeric."--_Liverpool Daily Courier._ "This stirring novel....
This story of the tragic love of David Rock and Anne St. Denis and
the treachery of the Intendent Bigot makes a memorable period live
again."--_Daily Mail._ "An historical novel of much distinction. It
takes us back to the days when old Quebec was in the hands of the
French, and when the great struggle between French and English was
about to begin.... Mr. Curwood has given us an informative, thrilling
and finely written book."--_Edinburgh Evening News._
DAVID WILDING
By RICHMAL CROMPTON, author of "The House," "The Wildings," etc.
Another friendly and humorous inquiry into the family life of the
Wildings, handled with a touch so deft that the Wildings will be
recognised in many a home. David's problem had become acute, with a
wife who flaunted the family tradition, and a baby at whose christening
and subsequent receptions all sorts of incompatible Wildings had
to meet. There are rebellions and declarations of independence. But
David's mother never lost her hold on the situation.
THE AMAZING CHANCE
By PATRICIA WENTWORTH, author of "The Black Cabinet," "The Dower House
Mystery," etc.
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