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Show ' SIX SHILLING NOVELS-contin11ed THE DRIVING FORCE By GEORGE AcoRN, Author of "One of the Multitude." A striking novel of power, pathos, and humour. The scenes arc laid in Devonshire and the East End of London-scenes the author knows intimately and portrays with an authentic touch. The passing of ~Irs. An£_el and the description of how Dick found Margaret at last are dramatic triumphs. This is a book out of the ordinary, such as will make a strong appeal to discriminating readers. CONFLICT AND CONQUEST By STEWART FRANKLAND. "A novel of glorious naval adventure" is a fit description of th is story. The author combines knowledge and experience with imagination in a viv id and convincing narrative, which should appeal strongly to all those who love a talc of the sea. Some of the writer's " intelligent ant icipations" s~em already on the way to realization. THE DUAL IDENTITY By C. GUISE MITFORD, Author of n Love in Lilac· L and," "The Hidden Mask," etc. The central figure in th is story is a man sentenced to penal servitude for life for a murder of which he is innocent. I Ie finds the prisoner in the next cell to his own is the person, alive anclwell, whom he is belie\'Cd to have killed. IIow and why the supJXlS~d victim had voluntarily got into the convict s~tll~ment, the torture of which had driven men to suicide, and why he sought to remain, is recounted with vigour and with truth, as a lso is the Jove story of the gi rl who was a pearl above all price. LORD QUARE'S VISITOR By FLOREI\'CE WARDEN, Author of" Why She Left Him," " The Matheson Money,'' etc. In this, her latest novel, the author provides an agreeable entertainment, the main items in which nrc much love and a li ttle mystery, in which the interest and the incident carry on~ swiftly along to a natural and proper conclusion. The talc is conceived in Florence Warden's bc=st style. JOHN LONG, Ltd., 12, 13, and 14, Norris St., Haymarket, London ......................... ' ' '" '' ~ ~...., . John Long's New and Forthcoming Books SIX SHILLING NOVELS-contin11ed THE NEW DAWN By GEORGE \VomL, Author of" Paul Moorhouse," "Sowing Clover," etc. r-. Jr. George \Vouil well merits the approbation of /'unch. as "a most disce rning author." Readers will find proof of this in his n~w story. It is a no,·('] of Scotland, through English ey~s, depicting Londoners cxil~d in the valley of the Clyde; of glens and collieries and rolling mills; of Sabbath fe rvour and r~v i val ; of gossiping tongues; of an inventor's dreams; and of love, waking in the springtim e. URSULA'S MARRIAGE By j AMES BLYTH, Author of II Rubina," n Amazement," u Faith and Unfaith," etc. A brilliant gallery of pen portraits of women swayed by the complex effects of th~ master passion, stand to the credit of Mr. Jam~s Blyth. A woman in love is the th~me of his latest romance, and it affords him yet another opportunity of displaying his infinite variety. The course of t ru~ love do~s not run smooth for Ursula, the devoted heroine, despite her riches, but her reward comes wh~n destiny pursues and inflicts justice upon the man who, in grasping at the priz~, overreach~s hims~lf. This author's novels never fai l in popular interest ; they have p~rsonal magnetism in them, and his new story attains the level of his best pr~vi ous efforts. COMING OF AGE By RICHARD MARSH, Author of" The Garden of Mystery," etc. It was an unkind fate which made Helen Arnold agree to marry Percy Osborne. The opposing fo rces against the young girl were considerably strengthened by the unscrupulous and evil machinations of Yarrow, who had always been a malign influence in Helen's life. If it had not been for the delightful American, Van Coster, and his sister, Yarrow might have succeeded in ruining the girl's lif~. But destiny had better things in sto re, and the story will show how the loyalty and l ov~ of Van Coster were rewarded at last. JOHN LONG, Ltd., 12, 13, and 14, Norris St., Haymarket, London |