(Author of ‘The Gulf’)
This is a novel dealing with Spiritualism, and the pernicious effects of seances and spook-hunting are illustrated in the history of John Havering. He is one among many ‘Seekers’ in the book, who all in their way endeavour to solve the mystery of the future life. The story has a romantic interest in the love affairs of Irene Hoey and Mary Havering, two strongly contrasted characters, and the plot involves a mysterious murder, which gives the excitement of a detective story to the book. There is also a political interest in The Seekers in the career of Ernest Beaufort, the Leader of the ‘People’s Party’; while the religious interest is to be found in the characters of the Vicar of Siltrop, Peter Silas the Quaker, and Mary Havering.
THE GRAFTONS
By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL
The Grafton family, settled happily in their beautiful country home, Abington Abbey, have reached the point in life where matrimonial developments may be expected to change its easy flow. The father is a well-preserved widower of fifty; two of the daughters are grown up. The story chiefly concerns their love affairs, but deals also with their country neighbours, and the give and take of English country life just before the war. The country around the village of Abington is well supplied with large houses, rectories, and vicarages, and from each of them, as well as from the greater world of London, come people, old and young, agreeable and disagreeable, to play their part in the comedy that centres around the Graftons. The novel also contains scenes laid in Paris, and one in the mountains of Switzerland.
WITHIN THE RIM
By HENRY JAMES
(Author of ‘The Ivory Tower,’ ‘The Sense of the Past,’ etc., etc.)
The assumption by Henry James of British citizenship was a symbolic act, a unique demonstration to all the world of his devotion to the Allied cause. To that cause also he dedicated the last efforts of his genius. In these moving, poignant pages, the heroism of ravaged Belgium and Fiance, the war effort of Britain, the rich outflow of American philanthropy are enshrined with all the master’s old matchless beauty of thought and form.
THE SKELETON KEY