NEW MACMILLAN FICTION
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
By H. G. WELLS.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net.
The name of H. G. Wells upon a title page is an assurance of merit. It is a guarantee that on the pages which follow will be found an absorbing story told with master skill. In the present book Mr. Wells surpasses even his previous efforts. He is writing of modern society life, particularly of one very charming young woman, Lady Harman, who finds herself so bound in by conventions, so hampered by restrictions, largely those of a well intentioned but short sighted husband, that she is ultimately moved to revolt. The real meaning of this revolt, its effect upon her life and those of her associates are narrated by one who goes beneath the surface in his analysis of human motives. In the group of characters, writers, suffragists, labor organizers, social workers and society lights surrounding Lady Harman, and in the dramatic incidents which compose the years of her existence which are described by Mr. Wells, there is a novel which is significant in its interpretation of the trend of affairs today, and fascinatingly interesting as fiction. It is Mr. Wells at his best.
Saturday’s Child
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Author of “Mother,” “The Treasure,” etc.
With Frontispiece in Colors by F. Graham Cootes
Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net
“A more ambitious piece of work than any Mrs. Norris has before attempted. It has the same qualities of sincerity and humor which have helped to make her former stories popular.... Mrs. Norris’s admirers will find this new book greatly to their liking.”—New York Times.
“This story will have a long and healthful period of popularity. Like ‘Mother,’ this new book has a heart in it. Like ‘The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne,’ it has knowledge of life and an informed conception of living.”—New York World.
“‘Saturday’s Child’ is a study of young energy—its struggles, its groping for use, for a place, and an achievement in the world of men and women—and a study, moreover, of marked ability and sympathy.... The effect is absolutely tonic.... It is a book to commend to all women.”—Louisville Post.
The Game of Life and Death Stories of the Sea
By LINCOLN COLCORD
Author of “The Drifting Diamond,” etc.
With Frontispiece
Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net
Upon the appearance of Mr. Colcord’s “The Drifting Diamond,” critics throughout the country had a great deal to say on the pictures of the sea which it contained. Mr. Colcord was compared to Conrad, to Stevenson, and to others who have written of the sea with much success. It is gratifying, therefore, that in this book the briny deep furnishes the background—in some instances the plot itself—for each one of its eleven tales. Coupled with his own intimate knowledge and appreciation of the oceans and the life that is lived on them—a knowledge and appreciation born in him through a long line of seafaring ancestry and fostered by his own love for the sea—he has a powerful style of writing. Vividness is perhaps its distinguishing characteristic, though fluency and a peculiar feeling for words also mark it.
The Three Sisters
By MAY SINCLAIR, Author of “The Divine Fire,” “The Return of the Prodigal,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
Every reader of The Divine Fire, in fact every reader of any of Miss Sinclair’s books, will at once accord her unlimited praise for her character work. The Three Sisters reveals her at her best. It is a story of temperament, made evident not through tiresome analyses but by means of a series of dramatic incidents. The sisters of the title represent three distinct types of womankind. In their reaction under certain conditions Miss Sinclair is not only telling a story of tremendous interest but she is really showing a cross section of life.
The Rise of Jennie Cushing
By MARY S. WATTS, Author of “Nathan Burke,” “Van Cleve,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
In Nathan Burke Mrs. Watts told with great power the story of a man. In this, her new book, she does much the same thing for a woman. Jennie Cushing is an exceedingly interesting character, perhaps the most interesting of any that Mrs. Watts has yet given us. The novel is her life and little else, but that is a life filled with a variety of experiences and touching closely many different strata of humankind. Throughout it all, from the days when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif, Jennie is sent to a reformatory, to the days when her beauty is the inspiration of a successful painter, there is in the narrative an appeal to the emotions, to the sympathy, to the affections, that cannot be gainsaid.
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Footnote: [1] Her claim has since been settled for $1000.