An uncommon story by the author of last year’s great success. Dimpsey Dorcas Durden is a more than up-to-date heroine, and her life among the smart set is the theme of a thoroughly smart novel replete with witty epigrams and catchy sayings. A distinctive book.
The Peculiar Major
By KEBLE HOWARD
Author of “The Smiths of Surbiton,” etc.
Asked how he came to write a novel so far away from his usual line as “The Peculiar Major,” Mr. Keble Howard replied:
“I didn’t write it. The Major wrote it, and he didn’t so much write it as set down in the form of a story the amazing things that happened to him. How could he help it? The Great War, a world in agony, a crowned villain, an astounding discovery, London, love, laughter—why anybody could knock up a yarn with such ingredients as those!
“As for my share, I just put in a comma or two, and got my friend, Mr. H. G. Wells, to give the enterprise his blessing.”
The Man’s Story
By H. B. SOMERVILLE
Author of “Ashes of Vengeance,” “The Mark of Vraye,” etc.