Hutchinson's New Novels. 7/6 Net
The Lavender Lad By DOLF WYLLARDE
Author of "Mafoota," etc.
This is an emotional drama presented by a practised hand, set in charming scenery, and enacted by characters who are most attractive and convincing.
The Lavender Lad is Miss Carlotta Edison, a clever actress of the variety stage, who goes to a lavender farm disguised as a ragged urchin. Here she falls in love with the farmer, a fine, manly yeoman, and there is a dramatic scene when he discovers her identity. They part, only to meet again two years later, when the somewhat Puritanical farmer has learned forgiveness and is sufficiently in love to forget Carlotta's not quite spotless past. This is one of the most attractive of Dolf Wyllarde's many delightful novels.
The Light on the Lagoon By ISABEL C. CLARKE
Author of "Lady Trent's Daughter," etc.
This appealing story is told with Miss Clarke's usual power and sincerity. Escaping from the narrow conventionality of her mother's love, Sydney Flood, a girl with deep emotions and artistic temperament, goes to Venice with her friend Roma Cochraine and her husband. Here she falls in love with Clive Moreton, who proposes to her, but who is drawn back to the beautiful and capricious Roma shortly afterwards. Sydney, miserable and forsaken, returns to Venice, to find that Roma's husband is dead and that she has married Clive. Sydney finds relief in her despair in the Catholic Faith, and becomes the happy wife of a barrister who has long been in love with her. The strong human interest and the beauty of the setting of this story will make it appeal to a large class of readers.
That Fellow MacArthur By SELWYN JEPSON
Author of "The Qualified Adventurer."
A new novel by Selwyn Jepson, the successful author of "The Qualified Adventurer." It tells in a thrilling story of the romance and adventures that come into the life of a Scotsman, one Ian MacArthur, who appeared in "The Qualified Adventurer" as a friend of the hero, Duffy. MacArthur, of placid temperament, is caught up into a whirl of circumstances that turn him into a thorough-going adventurer in spite of his desire to lead an orderly life. A natural woman-hater, he falls at last into the toils of the little god with the sharp arrows, who singles him out to love Joan, the beautiful heroine. Their adventures together on the unknown waters of the Amasons bring the story to an ingenious and surprising climax
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