By Lady Angela Forbes

Author of “The Broken Commandment” and “Penelope’s Progress.”

A story of love and intrigue. The plot concerns the struggle of Judith—the new Lady Berington—with an influence which comes between her and her husband, a rising member of the Government, and the action takes place at various country houses and in London.

Judith—fascinating, impulsive, unconventional—gets the reader’s sympathy at once, while the other characters, including the Prime Minister and the famous political hostess, Lady Mildred Stern (an old flame of Sir Philip Berington’s and Judith’s bitter enemy) are crisply and vividly drawn.

The smart, sparkling dialogue, the easy epigrams, the by-play of conflicting ambitions, and the deftly managed situations add materially to the enjoyment of a book, which should greatly increase Lady Angela Forbes’ rapidly growing popularity.

THE HUSSY

By James Lancaster

A powerful, rugged story by a new writer, depicting the life of an attractive, unbridled country girl. Susan Murfield is a finely drawn character; the brazen nature, the rebellion against the narrow existence of an obscure and somnolent village, the yearning to taste life in the glare and glitter of a great city, the artless attempt to ape the actions of subtler and more world-wise minds, the inevitable catastrophe and the return to the village home—all are shown with a realism that must impress itself on the most jaded novel-reader and keep him interested to the final scene.

THE FINE AIR OF MORNING

By J. S. Fletcher

Author of “The Paths of the Prudent,” “The Town of Crooked Ways,” etc.

Mr. Fletcher’s new novel is of the same genre as his well-known story “The Paths of the Prudent,” which was so popular a few years ago. A beautiful peasant girl of seventeen, Valency Winsome, having half-killed a brutal stepfather, sets out into the world to fend for herself. She meets and travels with an eccentric youth, Hilary Crewe, who is poet and poacher too, and who caravans about the country peddling. His poaching brings him within reach of the law, and Valency, unexpectedly left alone, drifts into the hands of a wealthy young man, Jeffery Hessle, who conceives the idea of bringing her out on the operatic stage. Her adventures with him and his friend, Hadyn Smith, a musician, her final revolt, and her eventual escape to Hilary Crewe, and the wild life of the woods and heaths, are narrated in a spirit of genuine comedy, while the story is marked with all Mr. Fletcher’s well-known gifts of strong characterisation and graphic description of life in the open country.

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND

By Morley Roberts

Author of “Rachael Marr,” “David Bran,” etc.

THE HOUSE OPPOSITE By “Rita”

Author of “Grim Justice,” etc., etc.

A dramatic story with a sensational dÉnoument.

THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY

By Charles Inge

“An unusual and powerful novel ... the character studies are wonderfully human and strong.”—Daily News.

THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE

By Marcelle Tinayre

“A brilliant and exciting story, instinct with the voluptuous magic of Italy past and present.”—Daily Mail.

THE MUMMY By Riccardo Stephens

“It reminds one very much of Wilkie Collins ... he has the knack of putting and keeping us on good terms with the men and women we meet in his pages.”—Evening Standard.

WITHOUT TRACE

By William Le Queux

A new Egyptian mystery which has for its central figure a fashionable ladies’ doctor, who is also an expert in certain newly-discovered poisons, and is as exquisitely polite as he is unscrupulous.

THE SOUL OF A DANCER

By Theodore Flatau

“A deeply interesting and picturesque tale, with Ariha, the wonderfully fascinating, weird and wayward dancer, as the central figure.... ‘The Soul of a Dancer’ is, moreover, remarkable for its atmospheric effects ... amazingly realistic indeed, is the picture he gives of existence in Cairo.”—Daily Telegraph.