THE SHADOW OF POWER. Third Thousand. Crown 8vo. 6/-
Times—"Few readers have taken up 'The Shadow of Power' and come face to face with Don Jaimie de Jorquera, will lay it down or refuse him a hearing until the book and his adventures come to an end."
Daily Mail—"This is a book that cuts deep into nature and experience. We commend it most heartily to discerning readers, and hope it may take its place with the best historical novels."
THE FIFTH TRUMPET. A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
Morning Post—"A remarkably strong book.... This is a book for those to read who like an historical novel that touches real issues, and even for those who are on the look out for A NEW SENSATION."
BY HORACE BLEACKLEY.
A GENTLEMAN OF THE ROAD. Crown 8vo. 6/-
Author of "Ladies Fair and Frail," etc.
⁂ As the title implies, this is a very gallant novel: an eighteenth century story of abductions, lonely inns, highwaymen and hangmen. Two men are in love with Margaret Crofton: Colonel Thornley, an old villain, and Dick Maynard, who is as youthful as he is virtuous. Thornley nearly succeeds in compelling Margaret to marry him, for he has in his possession a document sadly incriminating to her father. Maynard settles Thornley, but himself in his turn is "up against it." He is arrested for complicity in the highway thefts of a glad but graceless young ruffian. Both are sentenced to death, but a great effort is made to get them reprieved. It would be a pity to divulge the climax cunningly contrived by Mr. Bleackley, save to say that the book ends in a scene of breathless interest before the Tyburn gallows.
BY EX-LIEUTENANT BILSE.