In The Daughter of Brahma we are transported back to the mysterious atmosphere and brilliant Oriental colourings which marked the author’s first novel, “The Rajah’s People.” But here the complications of race and religion in India are faced from another standpoint—that of the woman. With profound sympathy we follow the wonderful moral and spiritual growth of the daughter of Brahma, whose fate becomes so strangely linked with that of the hero. With an equal interest, moreover, the reader is led step by step through an absorbing plot, in which all the hidden religious and political life of India is revealed in striking colours, until the final crisis is reached. The crisis, indeed, is an intensely dramatic and tragic one; but it satisfies not only by its truth, but by the promise of future happiness which it brings with it. The story draws into it many minor characters, who, like the two chief figures, win both interest and sympathy by their originality and life-like portraiture.
Mills & Boon confidently recommend THE DAUGHTER OF BRAHMA as one of the finest novels of 1912.
MILLS & BOON, Ltd., 49 Rupert St., London, W.
A Notable Novel
SOME years ago there appeared a very notable novel which Mills & Boon believe has got lost sight of in the rush of Fiction so energetically published by almost every firm. It was entitled—
AN ENGLISHMAN
By MARY PENDERED
How many readers of to-day remember it? Mills & Boon will shortly issue a new and revised edition at 6s., and they hope the public will not miss this chance of reading one of the finest novels of the last fifteen years. Some reviews are here given which appeared when the book was originally published.
“We have nothing but admiration for this very noble book. It is by far the most important the season has yet produced. It is filled with wisdom and sympathy, and in the Englishman of the title the author has created a man.”—Literary World.
“As thoroughly English as ‘Middlemarch’ or ‘Cranford.’”—Sunday Times.