Hutchinson's Important New Books
The Pomp of Power ANONYMOUS
In one large handsome volume, cloth gilt, 18s. net.
This very important and, having regard to its sensational revelations, most surprising book throws a searchlight upon the military and diplomatic relations of Britain and France before and during the war, and also deals with the present international situation. It contains many first-hand portraits and intimate appreciations and criticisms of characters well known in the public life of Europe: Mr. Lloyd George, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Lord Haig: Marshal JofEre, Lord Beaverbrook, Millerand, Loucheur, Painleve Cambon, Lord Northoliffe, Colonel Repington, and the Bolshevist Krassin. The anonymous author clearly speaks with authority as one in close contact with the world he describes, and his revelations, apart from their historic value, are of great personal interest. There will undoubtedly be much speculation as to his identity
The Life of H. G. Hawker, Airman By M. A. HAWKER
In one large handsome volume, with a number of illustrations on art paper, 18s net
In addition to forming an authentic record of the late Harry Hawker's flying career, including the British Height and Duration Records, his Pioneer Flights in Australia, the Bound Britain Seaplane Flight, and the Atlantic Flight attempted in a machine with but one engine, which resulted in bis being missing for a whole week, every chapter is full of hitherto unrecorded incidents and anecdotes, and of intense human interest.
The fact that he, starting with practically nothing, achieved undying fame and some (if not great) fortune, singles him out as the greatest British aviator. No man was more popular with his fellows or had such remarkably powerful will-power.
It is not generally known that Hawker was primarily responsible for the design of the Sopwith "Tabloid" biplane just before the war, which proved to be a prototype of the fighting scouts which gave us our ascendancy in the air.
The Last of a Race By COMTESSE de MERCY-
ARGENTEAU (Princess de Montglyon)
In one volume, cloth gilt, with many illustrations, 21 s. net.
The story of a woman's life, written by herself, and a human document. The Comtesse's early days were spent at the Castle of Argenteau—later demolished by the Germans—but her life was hard and unenviable. A love affair, arbitrarily checked by her parents, was followed by an enforced marriage, and then the man she loved came again into her life, with tragic consequences. Her ravels abroad while she tried to forget and the means she employed to obliterate memories are vividly described. The Comtesse was a frequent visitor to England and a personal friend of the late King Edward, and there are intimate touches of a number of well-known people. The book will be found of absorbing interest, and a number of the illustrations are of considerable historical value, as the family goes back many centuries—one Comte de Meroy-Argenteau being a guardian of Marie Antoinette.
