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A Play in Five Acts Translated by C. J. HOGARTH Large Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net. A remarkable play by one of the most prominent of the modern school of Russian dramatists. It should be studied by every one who desires to keep pace with the spirit and tendencies of present-day Art and Literature in Russia. "The Life of Man," which created a great sensation and had a long run at the Arts Theatre in Moscow, displays its author's genius in a most characteristic manner. A RUSSIAN COMEDY OF ERRORS Crown 8vo. 6s. Mr. George Kennan probably knows more Russian political exiles than any other man. Ever since his first visit to Siberia, undertaken more than forty years ago, he has kept in touch with many persons prominent in "underground Russia," and in his travels through Russia and Siberia he has met with many interesting adventures and heard many strange stories of the police and spy systems. He has gathered these stories into "A Russian Comedy of Errors." LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LIMITED |
His Father's Wife
A new Essex novel by the author of "My Vagabondage," "Tillers of the Soil," etc., is a notable literary event. Among the American criticisms of this novel are the following: "A Sophoclean subject handled in a masterly manner"; "A wonderful delineation of life on the Essex coast"; "A great and natural tragedy where there is no offence because of the admirable reticence."
Through Stained Glass
Author of "Home"
The story of a sophisticated father, an unsophisticated son, and a number of memorable women. The brilliant father has a richly coloured past, particularly with regard to one woman, and some others, and wine, and gambling, and reading and travelling and thinking; and he filters through himself "stained glass," he says the light of his own experiences for the benefit of his boy. It is a love story that travels far ; there are scenes of city and ranch life in Brazil, of the Parisian art world, of London high society, and New England country life. It is a love story that travels swiftly. Often it laughs. Often it strikes the dazzling blue sparks of wit. Sometimes it touches the tenderest chords of human life. It never drags or bores, it always flies.
Lena Hale
Lena Hale is of German-Jewish descent, and the conflict between Western ideals and an Eastern temperament forms the chief theme of this novel. The story describes the half-foreign, half-English atmosphere of an Anglo-German household, and indirectly the book is also a plea for the amelioration of our divorce laws, and paints a vivid picture of the evils, dangers, and complexities arising from separation without full legal release.
Fate the Marplot
Second Impression.
This is a rattling good story, with a thoroughly sound plot full of mystery and excitement. The heroine is an English girl, the villain an Austrian, and the action takes place on the Continent.
It's an Ill Wind—
Author of "Streets": a book of London Verses,
"The Loire," "Ways of Escape," etc.
This story describes the spiritual and emotional adventures of Adrian Corbet, a young man who believes he has a vocation for the priesthood, but discovering his mistake when he is on the point of being ordained, gives up parish work and joins a Bohemian colony of artists in Fitzroy Square. His life is influenced by two women: first by Rose Harford, a selfish prude, who appeals to all that is worst in his nature, and designs to make use of him for her own ends; and secondly by Elizabeth Moore, a charming, unconventional creature who throughout acts the part of his good angel.
The action of the novel takes place successively in Hampstead and in Fitzroy Square, and it contains many vivid descriptions of London life.
Collins & Co.
This is an absorbingly fascinating and exciting story with an entirely new turn to it. It tells of the doings of four adventurous gentlemen amateurs in elucidating the baffling mystery surrounding the disposal of a Mining Concession in Portuguese West Africa. The scenes are laid in London, Portugal, and Devonshire, and the interest is maintained at white heat to the last page. The strenuousness of the action is relieved by a prettily-handled love interest.
A strong point of the book is the extreme lucidity and probability of its plot; while the perfectly natural style in which it is written is eminently suited to the characters. One cannot put the book down until it is finished. The Pool of Gold
By GERTRUDE M. FOXE (Mrs. G. M. FOAKES)
Author of "The Russian Wife"
Vera is a girl of mixed English and Russian descent, who is gifted with a beautiful voice. A wealthy Polish impresario, Prince Zaleski, marries her, and spares no expense in training her for the operatic stage. At the last moment before her début she discovers the call of Love to be stronger than her Art. How she finds her mistake, and in the end fulfils her vocation is the subject of this story, which also describes life in the English colony of a Russian provincial town.
A Russian Comedy of Errors
By GEORGE KENNAN
Mr. George Kennan probably knows more Russian political exiles than any other man. Ever since his first visit to Siberia, undertaken more than forty years ago, he has kept in touch with many persons prominent in "underground Russia," and in his travels through Russia and Siberia he has met with many interesting adventures and heard many strange stories of the police and spy systems. He has gathered these stories into "A Russian Comedy of Errors."
Rain Before Seven
Second Impression.
"Mr. Leadbitter enters the literary arena with an equipment rare in a novice. He works with conscientiousness and consistency on the lines he has chosen, and if he deliberately limits his canvas he works well within his powers. And his style, unaffected, clear, and thoroughly efficient, is in harmony with his theme."—Spectator.
"There are few novels written nowadays with more of the qualities that mark the 'worth while' in fiction. A really remarkable first novel."—Observer.
"Has an amazing reality about it . . . coming near to inspiration at times, extraordinarily sincere from the first page to the last."—Evening Standard.