Hutchinson's New Novels. 7/6 Net
John Edgar's Angels By WINIFRED GRAHAM
Author of "Breakers on the Sand," "The Daughter Terrible," "Falling Waters," etc.
Winifred Graham's new novel deals with the love of a man for two women, one a Society beauty, the other the piquante daughter of a prosperous grocer. The character of the hero, John Edgar, is a curious mixture of Puritanical idealism and fiery passion. His unhappy childhood is a striking contrast to his subsequent career, when, in new and bewildering society, he meets the beautiful daughter of Lord Porthminster. Through the ramifications of a plot that seems more like real life than fiction, one wonders whether John Edgar's story is not a human document lightly disguised.
Vanderdecken By H. de VERE STACPOOLE
Author of "The Pearl Fishers," etc.
Here is a novel of to-day absolutely alive. Every character individual. You are seized by Hank Fischer at once, and with him and Bud du Cane and Tommie Coulthurst you go through the strangest adventures on the Pacific Coast to an end logical and worked towards mainly through the character of the chief protagonist, Bob Cardon. The sea fills the book, and its song from the Golden Gate to San Nicolas and the Bay of Wales.
Makeshifts By MARGARET BAILLIE-SAUNDERS
Author of "The Mayoress's Wooing," etc.
How a woman in love lets a strange man suffer to save her own happiness, and then offers herself sacrificially to redeem him, gives this novel its title.
By a sudden tide of very curious circumstances a Welsh draper's daughter in the Midlands, Myfanwy Rhos, has the whole public reputation of a famous priest placed in her hands. He is publicly accused, and by a word she can save him.
It is timely and topical, and will be widely read, the more so because its subject is dealt with sympathetically and without rancour from one who writes of Church matters from the inside. This is what is called a strong novel of human passion and spiritual struggle, but it is presented with vivacity and colour, and never for a moment loses its "go" and interest.
A New Novel by the "Thomas Hardy of Sussex."
The Seventh Wave By TICKNER EDWARDES
Author of "The Honey-Star," "Tansy," etc.
"Long Len," the hero of this powerful, arresting story, belongs to a class which we believe to be absolutely new in fiction—that strange, wandering, homeless crew of mortals known as " Pikers," men who haunt the wild Sussex highlands, scraping up a bare subsistence by selling black- berries, mushrooms, and the like to the people in the neighbouring villages and towns. In "The Seventh Wave," Mr. Tickner Edwardes well maintains his reputation as a forceful, original writer.
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