MY FRIEND PROSPERO
A NOVEL which will fascinate by the grace and charm with which it is written, by the delightful characters that take part in it, and by the interest of the plot. The scene is laid in a magnificent Austrian castle in North Italy, and that serves as a background for the working out of a sparkling love-story between a heroine who is brilliant and beautiful and a hero who is quite her match in cleverness and wit. It is a book with all the daintiness and polish of Mr. Harland’s former novels, and other virtues all its own.
Frontispiece in colors by Louis Loeb.
$1.50
By Mary Findlater
THE ROSE OF JOY
THE story of a very charming girl who, in order to escape the rather dreary and sordid surroundings of her youth, marries a man who fascinates her by his difference from the people whom she already knows. He, however, is a shallow and selfish man, who has very little appreciation of his wife’s need for self-expression; it turns out that he is even worse than this, however, and that he has been married before to a woman considerably below him, who, when he had believed her dead, turns up and drives him from England. The heroine, then a wife, yet not a wife, turns to her art as a painter for that “Rose of Joy” which had been denied her as a child or as a married woman. Miss Findlater has many of the qualities of a Jane Austen, in that she can find matters of the deepest interest, and make them seem interesting, too, in all the affairs of a country neighborhood.