12o. $1.35 net. By mail, $1.50
“And the Wise Man said: ‘Those who love with passion stand on the Fringe of the Desert’; and they who heard laughed and passed on their way.”
The atmosphere of Egypt glows and pulsates through the story, giving to the author an opportunity of showing that, not only figuratively but literally, these two lovers, Ingram and Hesper, stood on the Fringe of the Desert. It was her power of calling up vivid pictures of Egypt and the Desert that caused critics to compare a former story of Miss Macnamara’s with the work of those magicians of the East, Robert Hichens and Pierre Loti. This new book promises to emphasize her strength in that particular.
The Knave of Diamonds
By Ethel M. Dell
Frontispiece in Color and Decorated Wrapper.
$1.35 net. By mail, $1.50
The Great New Story by the Author of
“The Way of an Eagle”
With masterly skill Miss Dell has depicted the domination of love and its effacing strength when called upon to blot out from the memory an offense which only love could forgive. The struggle of the hero, a savage at heart, to emancipate himself from the sinister tendencies of his nature and to rise to the standard which the woman he loves is entitled to claim, is told in a story full of romance and adventure.
“One of the most satisfactory love stories we have read in a long while. Everybody will like it, from the dyspeptic and elderly reader to the young person who swallows ’em whole. The characters are alive and interesting.... The author seems to be a natural story-teller. Her book will undoubtedly have a great success.” N. Y. Globe.