By CECILIA HILL
Author of “The Citadel,” “Wings Triumphant.”
A novel that should enlarge this author’s circle of readers. Both style and treatment bear out the promises made in the former books. The heroine Petra is drawn with the same “sure touch of affection and experience” (to quote the Times critic on the author’s last novel), which characterizes the work of this clever writer.
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The City of Palms
By KATHLYN RHODES
Author of “The Lure of the Desert,” “The Desert Dreamers,” etc.
The action of the story passes in an oasis in the desert of Northern Africa, known to the Arabs as “The City of Palms.” The chief characters are a young Englishman, who has settled down in the oasis, his young wife, and a man of hybrid nationality, half Pole, half Turk, whose ill-will the English girl is unfortunate enough to incur. The threads of these three lives become entangled, and the story is concerned chiefly with the intrigue set in motion by the Turk, in which the Englishman runs the risk of losing both wife and land.
A Villa in the South
By DUNCAN SWAN