NEW
MACMILLAN FICTION
THE SIGN :
By MRS. ROMILLY FEDDEN
(Katharine Waldo Douglas). 6^.
TIMES. "The outer and the inner life of that strange country of brutes and mystics (Brittany) is unfolded with delicate art ; and the novel, quietly and warmly written, has much beauty of thought and feeling. "
DAILY NEWS. "There is much that is very striking in this original and powerful novel."
SPECTATOR. "Alike in atmosphere, aim, and characterisation, the book is of uncommon merit It is a fine story."
VAN CLEVE
By MARY S. WATTS. 6s.
Mrs. Watts' new book is distinctly modern, a fact that will commend it to those who will be eager to see if her pen is as facile in this field as it was in the historical. The story opens about the year 1892 and comes up to the present date. The hero, Van Cleve, is a young man who finds himself obliged, at the age of twenty, to support a family of foolish, good-hearted, ill-balanced women, and one shiftless, pompous old man. Out of this situation grows a story which is rich in character-drawing, in incident, and in human appeal.
WHITE ASHES
By KENNEDY-NOBLE. 6s.
Other American novelists have made effective use of the details of commercial life as material for their work, but it has, we believe, been left to the authors of White Ashes to introduce into a story the exciting elements of the fire insurance business. The dramatic possibilities of a great conflagration have, of course, often before been realised by authors, but not as in the present novel, where they are worked out from the point of view of the underwriter. The story moves rapidly, with business intrigues, plots and counterplots, and a compelling love interest.
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