By KATHARINE TYNAN
The Man from Australia is the story of John Darling, who comes from the Antipodes to find his Irish cousins. How he finds them amid tragic circumstances: how he loves his cousin Aileen, over whom the clouds of tragedy hang darkest: how he loses and finds her, is the main theme of the story. The setting is in the Wild West of Ireland.
THE FLOWER OF THE CHAPDELAINES
By GEORGE W. CABLE
The scene is the ‘Vieux Carré’ of New Orleans, the last lingering place of the old Creole atmosphere. There Geoffry Chester, a young lawyer, is struck by the charm of a Creole beauty whom he daily meets on his way to the office. This is a case of love at first sight. On account of the exclusive character of the Creole coterie it seems destined to be limited to sight, but a bookseller consults him about an old manuscript of which Aline Chapdelaines is the owner. The fate of this manuscript in respect to publication and of Chester in regard to matrimony is the theme of a most original romance.
HERITAGE
By V. SACKVILLE-WEST
Miss V. Sackville-West is already well known as a writer of distinguished verse, but this is her first essay in fiction. Her subject is the influence of heredity, and shows the effect of a strain of Spanish blood on a stolid Sussex stock, as manifested in the persons of a young woman and her cousin, whom she subsequently marries. The story has most unusual literary and dramatic values; but while it is first of all remarkable for its literary style, its beautiful descriptions and power of creative imagination, it presents against this background a steadfast realism of action and psychology. The biological parallel of the ‘waltzing mice’ that in some sense follow the fortunes of the heroine is an original and charming invention. Heritage is certainly one of the most arresting first novels published in the last ten years.
THE CARAVAN MAN
By ERNEST GOODWIN