Millicent Newberry, a small, inconspicuous woman in grey, is a clever lady detective.
She keeps green wool by her and knits a kind of pattern of her case into the article she is making at the time. When the story opens, she is asked to employ her wits to the loss of the Mason Emeralds. The Green Jacket is the bit of knitting she has in hand. Her condition of undertaking a case is permission to deal privately with the criminal as she thinks best—reforming treatment rather than legal punishment—and she makes it work.
This detective story can be thoroughly recommended. The Author combines an exciting story with the charm of real literary art; the mystery is so impenetrable as to baffle the cleverest readers until the very sentence in which the secret is revealed.
A REMARKABLE FIRST HISTORICAL NOVEL.
Claymore!: By Arthur Howden Smith. A Story of the '45 Rebellion. Cloth, and with an attractive coloured wrapper, 6s. net.
Here is a first novel which, we believe, will bring to the Author immediate popularity. It is an attractive story of the Stuart Rebellion of the '45, full of love and adventure and with a good ending. The hero, young Chisholm, of English birth, joins Prince Charlie and the Stuart cause. How he meets and loves Sheila, the young girl chieftain of the Mac Ross Clan, and their many perils and adventures with rival claimants and traitors, together with happenings of many historical persons and incidents appearing throughout the story, make "Claymore" one of the best and arresting historical novels published for many a year.
Tales that are Told: By Alice Perrin, Author of "The Anglo-Indians," etc. Cloth, and with an attractive coloured wrapper, 6s.