There are few novelists whose works deserve more respectful consideration than those of Lucas Cleeve. She has written stories of a high order, but she has never surpassed in interest or in power her new book ‘Mademoiselle Nellie.’ It is a story of English and French life, and offers a careful study of the differing characteristics of the two peoples. The book abounds in felicitous phrases, in dramatic moments, and in deft touches of pathos.
IN SPITE OF THE CZAR. By Guy Boothby, Author of ‘Dr. Nikola,’ etc. With 8 Illustrations. 5s.
In this fine tissue of romance and realism we have a wide range both in scenery and in incident. The invention of ‘Velvet Coat’ as a distinctive sobriquet is an original idea, and whether in an English country mansion, on the St. Petersburg pavements, or at Irkutsk, or in any other of the scenes so well painted, we are carried on from page to page with breathless expectation. All sorts and conditions of men, and of women, too, cross the stage of this fresh drama, and it is full of exactly what delights the jaded reader—after turning from third-rate romance—namely, the unexpected.
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| DEAD CERTAINTIES | Nathaniel Gubbins |
| ALL THE WINNERS | Nathaniel Gubbins |
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| THE MYSTERY OF FOUR WAYS | Florence Warden, Author of ‘The House on the Marsh’ |
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| MATILDA, COUNTESS OF TUSCANY | Mrs. Mary E. Huddy. Demy 8vo., with Illustrations, 12s. net. |