The Matrimonial Lottery. By CHARLOTTE O’CONOR ECCLES. 1 vol.—3934.
A journalistic comedy in which all ends well and happily. Miss Eccles is already the authoress of one delightful humorous book in the Tauchnitz Edition.
Sir Nigel. By A. CONAN DOYLE. 2 vols.—3935/36.
The author of “Sherlock Holmes” has here given us a book of another genre. It is a romance of the days of chivalry with a setting of many historical incidents, showing how a brave young squire won his golden spurs.
A Lady of Rome. By F. MARION CRAWFORD. 2 vols.—3937/38.
This is the story of a Roman family tragedy, and a psychological study of the lengths to which unselfish love and expiatory renunciation may go in poor human nature.
Whom God hath joined. By ARNOLD BENNETT. 1 vol.—3939.
A drama of real life dealing with the still unsolved marriage problem and the working of the English divorce laws.
The Lady Evelyn. By MAX PEMBERTON. 1 vol.—3940.
A stirring romance of England and Roumania, in which the gypsies of the latter country play an important part. The heroine herself has gypsy blood, and her dual temperament leads to exciting complications.