This is a stirring novel of adventure in Eastern Europe. A learned Professor astonishes the British Association by announcing that he has located the famous lost treasure of Diocletian, as buried somewhere in the principality of 'Montenera.' This little State with its brave Prince is hard pressed for funds to defend itself against more powerful neighbours who aim at absorbing it, and the treasure would be invaluable. Whether it was discovered or not the reader learns in the course of a spirited and exciting story.
This work, by a new author, is of a highly imaginative and romantic tendency, and deals with a most interesting period in Scottish history. The mystery of Flodden, and the strange events grouped round the ancient tradition as to the fate of the gallant James, are stirringly told, and lead up to the dénouement, which comes with vivid unexpectedness at the close of the book.
A tender love idyll is woven into the tale and relieves the scenes of violence through which the wearer of the Witch's Sword must fight his way to honour and acceptance.
Claudius Clear, in the British Weekly, says: 'Mr. Sinclair describes for us without preaching the social life of the very rich in New York. Nothing could be more awful than his delineation. It is an America without conscience, without pity, without God.'
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