By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
Fully Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50
Action, excitement, and mystery are three ingredients always found in Mr. Oppenheim's novels. His new story, "The Missioner," is the compound of love and adventure which this author so deftly produces, and his characters have more than their usual individuality.
"The Missioner's" heroine is a beautiful English woman, of the aristocratic class, rich, frivolous, and worldly. The hero is a young man of great personal magnetism, high ideals, and unused to the insincerities of society. Her fashionable amusements and his work in the slums are the antipodes from which they both move to meet on the common ground made possible by their mutual interest and appreciation. But the lady has a mystery, and the suitor has an arduous task in clearing away the complications.
The book has more the air of verisimilitude than have some of Mr. Oppenheim's previous works, and it gains in strength from the very likelihood of its happenings. It moves at a breathless rate from the country to London, to Paris and back again, and the reader's interest keeps pace.
Those who read "The Missioner" in serial form pronounced it the best story that this master of romance has yet written.
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An exceedingly clever volume.—BOSTON GLOBE
AN ORIGINAL GENTLEMAN
By ANNE WARNER