BY D. K. BROSTER,
Joint Author of "Chantemerle," "The Vision Splendid," etc.
In the year 1795, when England was equipping an expedition of French émigrés to help (Royalist) France, a hardy Chouan leader, unsentimental and not over-young, was unexpectedly led to risk his life for a little Franco-Scottish boy of his acquaintance, kidnapped by two treacherous old French ladies, and for a woman who had come near to depriving him of it already. Engulfed in the tragic failure of the expedition at Quiberon, himself both lost and saved through his past knight-errantry, he survived to be repaid, in unforseen ways, by each of his debtors. Over the story—which borrows its title from Millais' well-known picture—blows the wind of the narrow seas, whereon, indeed, some of its action passes, and where, in a storm, it comes to an end.
STEP-SONS OF FRANCE.
By Captain P. C. WREN,
Author of "The Wages of Virtue," etc.
True tales of the French Foreign Legion in which appear some of the characters depicted in "The Wages of Virtue." Not only are the scenes laid in Algeria, but in those other countries in which the flag of the Legion flies and the bones of so many Legionaries lie.
THE BLACK OFFICE
AND OTHER CHAPTERS OF ROMANCE.
BY AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE,