By BERTA RUCK
Author of “His Official Fiancée,” (15th Edition), “The Girls at His Billet,” etc.
“Men and women do jar upon each other so with the differences in their ways, that one thinks they must have been meant to live in separate worlds. A gulf yawns between them. There’s only one bridge that can span that gap—Love: the Bridge of Kisses!”
This is the story of the building of two bridges—one by the hero, a young Engineer-officer, and one by the heroine, an ingenuous girl, who has undertaken to find him a wife during the six weeks that he is billeted in her neighbourhood.
Grace Lorraine
By DOUGLAS SLADEN
Author of “The Tragedy of the Pyramids.”
The scene is laid on the lofty coast of South Devon, where a Squire, who lost his fortune in the War, had founded a fellowship of poor authors, artists and musicians, in the restored mediæval monastery of Via Pacis, and the American millionaire who purchased his property and built a copy of Taormina on it. It is a strong love story, packed with exciting incidents as Mr. Sladen’s stories always are. The millionaire, a rugged Westerner, and the Rector’s grandson, who has been the idol of Rugby and Oxford, and goes to fight in France, are both of them in love with Grace Lorraine, the beautiful daughter of the Squire. Her decision and Roger’s fate form the crux of the book.
In Mio’s Youth
By JANE BARLOW