THE RIGHT STUFF
By Ian Hay
With frontispiece illustration by James Montgomery Flagg. 12mo, $1.20 net. Postage extra.
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IAN HAY
Like Locke and Snaith, Ian Hay is a young British writer whose keen sense of humor and genial insight into human nature will make an instant appeal to the large audience of novel readers. "The Right Stuff" tells of the progress of a young Scottish lad from the lowly surroundings of his home in the hills, through Edinburgh university, through gruelling years as a newspaper hack in London, to the position of private secretary to a man deep in political life of the London of to-day. In this position he comes into daily touch with the immediate members of his patron's family, and ultimately, through a series of highly amusing episodes, takes to himself one of the sprightly twin sisters of his superior's wife.
Such is the story. The charm and the real fun lie in the constant surprises and whimsies of the twin sisters, in their irrepressible young brother,—a peer of that infant prodigy, The Admirable Tinker,—whose slang is infectious and novel, and above all in the character and doings of Robin the hero. Since Barrie's "When a Man's Single," readers have not been introduced to so canny a young man, or one so altogether likable and human. His extraordinary proposal alone is a chapter that will make Ian Hay famous, but in all his doings he is a hero that will delight the reader's heart, and long be remembered as "The Right Stuff." (Ready in May)
THE TWISTED FOOT
By Henry Milner Rideout
Author of "Dragon's Blood," "The Siamese Cat," "Admiral's Light," etc. With 8 illustrations by G. C. Widney. 12mo, $1.20 net. Postage extra.
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From "THE TWISTED FOOT"