Hutchinson's New Novels. 7/6 Net
Da Silva's Widow LUCAS MALET
Author of "Sir Richard Calmady," etc.
Of these nine stories by this distinguished author five are concerned with the modern English world before the war. The remaining four, though in no sense war-stories, arise through conditions imposed by the war. The stories, as a whole, cover a wide range of incidents, scene, and emotion, and even venture in two cases to make excursions into the region of the supernatural.
Short Shipments ELINOR MORDAUNT
Author of "The Little Soul," etc.
These stories range from the delicately mystical, as in that strange story, "The Fountain" — where the heroine, half water-sprite, half woman, a sort of Celtic Undine, is set among the wild scenery of North Wales; the intimate psychology of a woman of forty, as portrayed in "A Study In Pastel"; to the most widely differing and yet no less intimate studies of the sea and the ways of sailor-men as are given us in "Fighting Cocks" and "The Skipper's Yarn," and from these on such strange tales of life in the East End and on the riverside of London as we find in "The Man Who Kept Birds" and "The Yellow Cat." In no volume of stones ever published, indeed, has the range been wider or more amazingly varied, and "Short Shipments" goes to form a worthy successor to the author's last collection, "New Wine in Old Bottles."
The Wednesday Wife By JULIETTE GORDON SMITH
Attar Abu Hamed had only three wives — a modest number for a gentleman of Tunis. It was Aletra, the "Wednesday" wife, whom Attar really loved. When a plague raged in the city, one of the other wives discovered a wonderful potion, and was called to the Sultan's palace to save the princess. Aletra went instead, and her adventure there — the pursuit by the Sultan, the flight to the desert — make a romance that the Westerner finds it hard to credit as real. This writer knows the East, and her picture is convincing. Her story takes a surprising turn, and we find our convictions as to this Eastern charm suddenly veering back to a Western standard.
By Whose Hand? By BEATRICE BASKERVILLE and ELIOTT MONK
A story showing the final stages of a vendetta which was begun in the sixteenth century, developing the psychological results of the continual pursuit of vengeance.
It follows, in a series of stirring incidents in various parts of Europe, the fortunes of the descendants of the original protagonists, and shows how the feud was at last brought to an end by the efforts of a famous Italian detective.
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