This extraordinary tale plunges the reader at the first word into a mystery so deep, a story so vital, that one reads page after page in the spirit that holds the reader of, for example, ‘Treasure Island,’ though the story is not a story of some distant and undiscovered shore. True, there are a treasure and a treasure-hunter. True, there are wreckers, traitors, villains. True, there are youth, innocence, beauty. But all these belong, not to the high seas, but to the restless tide of human life and love which seethes and boils on this dry land of England now. There is something in the author’s work which allies him with Dumas, with Victor Hugo, with the weaver of the legends of the ‘Arabian Nights.’ He holds you; he fascinates you. He brings the breath of old-time romance down to the HERE and the NOW. =THE STORM OF LONDON.= By F. DICKBERRY ‘Have you read “The Storm of London”?’ is the question which will be on the lips of everyone. No novel published within recent times is comparable with it for audacity. It is described as a social rhapsody, and the author certainly portrays with no flattering pen the worse side of high-class society. But it is something more. It is a work of imagination, daringly original, and set boldly in a frame of modern realism. Yet there is no sadness in the book—only laughter. The author possesses rare courage and discretion, and his story can give no offence to any reader with the saving gift of humour. Again we ask, ‘Have you read “The Storm of London”?’ =BLIND POLICY.= By GEORGE MANVILLE FENN Daring in conception, masterly in execution, and strong in real human interest is Mr. George Manville Fenn’s new story, which deals with the amazing doings of fashionable London life. That such things can be seems almost past belief, and yet, given the actual circumstances, and the consequences are perfectly natural. The feminine interest is particularly strong in this particularly strong story. =THE AMBASSADOR’S GLOVE.= By ROBERT MACHRAY Mr. Robert Machray’s plots are conceived with an ingenuity that baffles the most practised reader. ‘The Ambassador’s Glove’ is a story of a formidable domestic conspiracy in which the Foreign Office, the Secret Service, and a peculiar society called The Brotherhood, are involved in a battle royal. The weapons employed are abduction, assassination, and blackmail. It is a story that cannot fail to go into many editions. =LADY SYLVIA.= By LUCAS CLEEVE The chief characteristics of ‘Lady Sylvia’ are passion and intelligence. It is a story of the eternal conflict between love and duty, and is rendered the more powerful because it is written with the consummate mastery which is now associated with the name of Lucas Cleeve. =THE WATERS OF OBLIVION.= By ADELINE SERGEANT