NEW MACMILLAN FICTION
Metzel Changes His Mind
By RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER, Author of “The Goodly Fellowship.”
With frontispiece. Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.
The many readers who enjoyed The Goodly Fellowship have been eagerly awaiting something more from the pen of the same author. This is at last announced. In Metzel Changes His Mind, Miss Schauffler strengthens the impression made by her first book that she is a writer of marked originality. Here again she has provided an unusual setting for her tale. The scene is largely laid in a pathological laboratory, surely a new background for a romance. It is a background, moreover, which is used most effectively by Miss Schauffler in the furtherance of her plot. Her characters, too, are as interesting as their surroundings—a woman doctor, attractive as well as sensible, a gruff old German doctor, suspicious of womankind, and a young American. Around these the action centers, though half a dozen others, vividly sketched, have a hand in the proceedings. Of course Metzel Changes His Mind is a love story, but not of the ordinary type.
Landmarks
By E.V. LUCAS, Author of “Over Bemerton’s,” “London Lavender,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
Mr. Lucas’s new story combines a number of the most significant episodes in the life of the central figure; in other words, those events of his career from early childhood to the close of the book which have been most instrumental in building up his character and experience. The episodes are of every kind, serious, humorous, tender, awakening, disillusioning, and they are narrated without any padding whatever, each one beginning as abruptly as in life; although in none of his previous work has the author been so minute in his social observation and narration. A descriptive title precedes each episode, as in the moving-picture; and it was in fact while watching a moving-picture that Mr. Lucas had the idea of adapting its swift selective methods to fiction.
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