Mr. Robert Machray’s plots are conceived with an ingenuity that baffles the most practised reader. ‘The Ambassador’s Glove’ is a story of a formidable domestic conspiracy in which the Foreign Office, the Secret Service, and a peculiar society called The Brotherhood, are involved in a battle royal. The weapons employed are abduction, assassination, and blackmail. It is a story that cannot fail to go into many editions.
LADY SYLVIA. By Lucas Cleeve
The chief characteristics of ‘Lady Sylvia’ are passion and intelligence. It is a story of the eternal conflict between love and duty, and is rendered the more powerful because it is written with the consummate mastery which is now associated with the name of Lucas Cleeve.
THE WATERS OF OBLIVION. By Adeline Sergeant
Miss Adeline Sergeant is a writer who has endeared herself to countless thousands of novel-readers. Her books are always human, and she believes in happy endings, but the way is set with temptations and storms and difficulties before the haven is finally reached. In her new story, ‘The Waters of Oblivion,’ Miss Sergeant displays all her old qualities, and it must create for her a host of new friends.
AN INDEPENDENT MAIDEN. By Adeline Sergeant
In Miss Sergeant’s new story will be found all those essentials which have made her name a household word in the realms of fiction, and readers of the present work will be delighted to make the acquaintance of so charming and sympathetic a heroine as Dulcie.
THE BOOK OF ANGELUS DRAYTON. By Mrs. Fred Reynolds
‘The Book of Angelus Drayton’ is not a novel set to the ordinary tune. There is a plot, indeed, and one that no one can read without sympathetic interest; there is comedy and tragedy in it. But the chief note of the book is its charm—its charm of subject, its charm of treatment, and its charm of style. It is a story of the country, and to all who love the sights and sounds of the country it will appeal with irresistible strength. It leads the reader through the changing seasons of the year, and of them all it has something significant to say in the manner of a poet. It is not only a book to be read: it is a book to be bought and read and re-read.
RONALD LINDSAY. By May Wynne, Author of ‘For Faith and Navarre’