Hutchinson's New Novels. 7/6 Net
A BIG CANADIAN NOVEL
Purple Springs By NELLIE L. McCLUNG
Author of "The Second Chance," etc.
Pearl Watson, a girl of fifteen, Is asked to wait three years by the man she loves. She waits in a radiant dream. The three years end, and the whole government of the province is by this time involved in this love story. Nellie McClung's latest, greatest Canadian novel.
20,000 copies have already been called for in Canada of this popular novel. It is now first published in this country.
Miss Mapp By E. F. BENSON
Author of "Dodo Wonders," etc.
Clever, amusing, it is a chronicle of the doings of a group of women and men in a seaside township. Of this group, Miss Mapp is the dominating personality. Not too pass& 9 she has set her mind on one day marrying Major Flint, retired. The reader is carried along easily; it all makes entertaining reading, true to life as lived by the comfortably-placed human beings in an English township.
The Post War Girl By BERTA RUCK
Author of "His Official Fiancée," etc. (ll7th Thousand).
This selection of stories by Berta Buck is divided into two parts: those written before the Great War and those written during or after. A somewhat startling and unlooked-for contrast! Problems were presented to the pre-war girl which do not worry her present-day sisters—and vice versa. Love and money (or rather, her living) were essential to both. But love, before nineteen-fourteen, was apparently less complex a problem than it now is. Compare the case of "the Rector's Winnie" or of "Pandora" (both pre-war maidens) with that of "Patsie" and her "Flying Cabbage," or of "Miss Blonde Verity" and her two affinities. Berta Buck finds that the outlook of her sex has been modified. And that of the young men, is it the same? Perhaps the answer is to be found in "The Whisper," "The Young Man of Yesterday," or "The Downward Smile."
RECENTLY PUBLISHED. 8/6 net.
Humbug By E. M. DELAFIELD
Author of "Tension," "The Heel of Achilles."
This is a penetrating study in education by the brilliant daughter of Mrs. de la Pasture (Lady Clifford). "Humbug" is a striking novel. The character-drawing is subtle, clear and convincing. lily, the character round whom the story centres, her parents, her aunt, her husband, think, suffer and rejoice as living folk.
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