In this story of modern country-house life Mr. Benson mingles mystery, intrigue, and comedy with the skill of which he alone has the secret.
THE POTTER'S THUMB. Flora Annie Steel.
"Sometimes the potter's thumb slips in the moulding, so in the firing the pot cracks." Mrs. Steel's brilliant study of Anglo-Indian life is based upon this text. It is one of the most dramatic and moving of her Indian novels.
ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. Flora Annie Steel.
This book is generally regarded as Mrs. Steel's masterpiece. It is a story of the Indian Mutiny, and contains a wonderful picture of the heroism of English men and women in that time of terror.
THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF. Stanley J. Weyman.
This, one of the first of Mr. Weyman's famous novels, deals with France in the time of the Huguenot wars, and contains a brilliant picture of the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. A. Courlander.
This realistic story of life on a great London newspaper is probably the best novel of journalism ever written.
A WALKING GENTLEMAN. James Prior.