LADY OF THE NIGHT
By BENJAMIN SWIFT
A charming story centreing round the romantic attachment of two delightful people—Ysmyn Veltry, the daughter of a wealthy French perfume manufacturer and Vivian Darsay, a great-grandson of an old Crimean veteran, Colonel Darsay—whom, years before the story opens, chance had brought together and made playmates of among the perfumed fields of roses, jasmine and all the other fragrant flowers which surrounded Veltry's world-renowned distillery at Grasse.
At the instigation of an ambitious sister-in-law, Veltry has come to London to inaugurate, on lines which shall outvie in magnificence any similar establishment, a shop in which to sell his perfumes. Ysmyn and Vivian meet again under dramatic and greatly changed conditions to find their path to happiness beset with difficulties, and it is not until the "Maison Merveille," which has quickly become the talk of fashionable London and developed into a veritable "palace of beauty culture" is, in the height of its success, overtaken by disaster, that the "Lady of the Night"—so called after jasmine, her father's favourite flower—becomes the wife of her erstwhile playmate.
THE EMPEROR'S SPY
By HECTOR FLEISCHMANN
"The Emperor's Spy," which deals with the struggle between Napoleon Bonaparte's secret police, headed by a beautiful woman spy—Elvire—and a gang of daring Royalist conspirators led by Georges Cadoudal and the Chevalier Lahaye Saint Hilare, is one of the most exciting, vivid and elaborate historical novels since Dumas's "Three Musketeers."
Famous historical characters, from Napoleon downwards, crowd its pages. Incident follows incident in quick succession, and plot is met by counter-plot, until, at last, under the shadow of the wild cliffs of Brittany the Emperor's Spy, having achieved the crowning triumph of her life, meets with a swift and tragic death at the hands of the last of the Royalists. The book is 576 pages long and there is not one page of this tremendous story which does not glow with living, human interest.
GLOOMY FANNY AND OTHER STORIES
By MORLEY ROBERTS
Author of "Thorpe's Way," "David Bran," etc.
Readers of Mr. Morley Roberts's novel "Thorpe's Way" will remember that "Gloomy Fanny," otherwise the Hon. Edwin Fanshawe, was one of the most amusing characters in that very amusing story.
I'D VENTURE ALL FOR THEE
By J.S. FLETCHER
Author of "The Town of Crooked Ways," "The Fine Air of Morning," etc.
A story of the Yorkshire coast, 1745.