"It is a piece of personal good luck to have read it. One goes in and out of one's hall door with a delicious sense of possessing a secret. It increases one's confidence in the world. If a book like this can be written, there is, we feel, hope for the future."—The Athenæum.
THE LAST OF THE ROMANOFS.
By Charles Rivet (Petrograd Correspondent of the "Temps").
"'The Last of the Romanofs' can be recommended to one desirous of understanding what has actually happened in Russia and what caused it to happen."—Globe.
ON THE EDGE OF THE WAR ZONE.
By Mildred Aldrich, Author of "A Hilltop on the Marne."
"They give a picture of peace in the midst of war that is both fascinating and strange ... as an intimate sketch of one corner of the world-war, viewed at close quarters over the garden-hedge, these little books will have earned for themselves a place apart."—Punch.
THE POT BOILS.
A Novel.
By M. Storm Jameson.
In "The Pot Boils" the author has written a vivid and original study of the careers and the love-story of a modern young man and woman whom we first encounter as students at the same Northern University. Of life in this Northern University the author gives a realistic account, and equally realistic and entertaining is the description of the world of social reformers, feminists, journalists, vers-libristes in London, to which the scene is shifted later. It is a brilliant provocative book which will appeal to all those who are interested in appraising the worth and promise of modern movements and ideals.
THE SHIP OF DEATH.
A Romance of the World-War.
By Edward Stilgebauer, Author of "Love's Inferno."
In "The Ship of Death," Dr. Stilgebauer has written a romance which depicts in all its horror the havoc wrought by war upon human relationships and values outside the actual sphere of the battle-field. The instrument of disaster is Captain Stirn, the captain of the submarine which torpedoes the 'Lusitania,' styled here the 'Gigantic.' The first part of the book depicts the company on board, when the first premonitions of catastrophe are beginning to fill the air. Then comes the catastrophe itself; and the last section of this book presents Captain Stirn in the agony and delirium which seizes him after his deed of horror. The book is impressive and absorbing both by force and vividness of the author's style and imagination and by the vigorous sincerity and idealism which penetrate it throughout.