BY ALLAN McAULAY.
THE EAGLE'S NEST. Crown 8vo. 6/-
Athenæum—"We should describe the book as a brilliant tour de force.... The story is spirited and interesting. The love interest also is excellent and pathetic."
Spectator—"This is one of those illuminating and stimulating romances which set people reading history."
BEGGARS AND SORNERS. Crown 8vo. 6/-
⁂ "Beggars and Sorners" is a novel which deals with what may be called the back-wash of the "Forty Five." It commemorates the débâcle of a great romance, and in describing the lives, the struggles, the make-shifts, the intrigues and the crimes of a small circle of Jacobite exiles in Holland between the years 1745 and 1750, it strives to show the pathos of history while revealing its seamy side. The characters are imaginary (with one important exception); they have imaginary names and commit imaginary actions, for the story is not confined to, but only founded on, fact. If some readers of Jacobite history find among their number some old friends with new faces, this need not detract from the interest of others to whom all the characters are new—actors in a drama drawn from the novelist's fancy. To English readers it may have to be explained what the word Sorner means—but the story makes this sufficiently plain. The novel is of a lighter character than those previously written by this author, and it is not without sensational elements. In spite of adverse circumstances, grim characters, and all the sorrows of a lost cause, it contrives to end happily. The scene is laid in Amsterdam.
BY KARIN MICHAELIS.
THE DANGEROUS AGE. Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
Translated from the Danish.