Messrs. Hutchinson & Co.’s New Novels, Autumn 1901
By F. FRANKFORT MOORE.
A Nest of Linnets
By the Author of “The Jessamy Bride,” “The Fatal Gift,” etc.
With 16 Full-page Illustrations by J. JELLICOE.
In crown 8vo, cloth gilt. 6s.
The story opens in Bath at the time when that city was at the height of its popularity as a fashionable resort. Most of the action of the story takes place there or in the neighbourhood, and Mr. Moore could scarcely have chosen a more interesting period. Such well-known characters as Dr. Johnson, Horace Walpole, the Duchess of Devonshire, David Garrick, Mr. Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, the Sheridans, and the Linleys, are introduced with all the skill and close intimacy to which Mr. Moore has accustomed us in “The Jessamy Bride” and “The Fatal Gift”; but the chief interest is centred in the beautiful Miss Linley and Dick Sheridan, whose romantic and faithful attachment ends, after many exciting incidents, in the well-known dénouement. Of Mr. Moore’s trio of fascinating historical romances “A Nest of Linnets” will undoubtedly rank as the daintiest and most charming of all.
By RONALD MACDONALD.
God Save the King