Here are extracts from what some of them say:—

Romain Rolland.—“It is the work of a great talent, a vigorous work.”

Georg Brandes.—“An admirable book, original, profound, daring.”

Henri Barbusse.—“This book has created a sensation in France. I have no hesitation in applying to it the words ‘genius’ and ‘masterpiece.’”

The Burning Secret

By STEFAN ZWEIG

Cr. 8vo.

6s. net.

A brilliant psychological study of a clever child. The story deals with a single episode in his life, when he is staying at a holiday resort with his mother. He is at the impressionable age when the conflict between childhood and young adolescence has just set in. The writer’s shrewd insight into the child’s mind at this age of dawning perceptions is remarkable.

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