The Air Pirate
last year or two of aviation, the present position and what may be
expected in the future. Already passenger and mail services are being
established, and it will probably not be long before many men will be
using aeroplanes in the way they now use cars, only they will be able to
go where cars cannot, and at a much quicker pace. Mr. Berry's book is
for the general reader. He tells him what he will want to know, takes
him through actual flights, explains engines, controls, construction,
cross country and overseas flying, laws, rules and traffic regulations,
what cost of services will be, and how mail services already established
are working. Everything that a man wants to know who expects to fly on
his own account or who hopes to be taken up as a passenger will be found
here. The book is particularly timely in view of the enormous interest
now being taken by the press in the subject of the future uses of
aircraft.
_Just Published_
Elizabethan Ulster
By LORD ERNEST HAMILTON
Author of "The First Seven Divisions" (21st Edition), "The Soul of
Ulster," etc.
_In demy 8vo, cloth, +16s.+ net._
"A very full and detailed story of the beginnings of Ulster he has
made a history, very lively and entertaining without sacrificing
anything of the seriousness with which it deserves to be
treated."--_Westminster Gazette._
"A detailed account of the amazingly complex affairs of Ulster
during Elizabeth's reign.... The book is a just picture of a
quaking bog of seething hatreds."--_Morning Post._
"A picturesque story of lawless chiefs, unruly clans, ruthless
soldiers, and crafty but bewildered statesmen."--_Athenæum._
"This history is studiously impartial ... a valuable and important
contribution to Irish history."--_Scotsman._
NEW NOVELS
For the AUTUMN, 1919.
_Each in crown 8vo, cloth_, +6s. 9d.+ _net_.
Sanity Jane
By COUNTESS BARCYNSKA
Author of "The Honey Pot" (60th Thousand), "Love Maggy," etc.
This novel is almost certain to be in very great demand. It is a live
book, and Sanity is a very real girl. The book is distinctive, and a
most intriguing situation is created when the man Sanity loves believes
her to be the woman--a stranger to him--who is to provide the
compromising circumstances necessary for his wife to obtain, "by
arrangement," her divorce. The author, in taking Sanity through her very
interesting career, deals in her characteristic manner with life and
people as one finds them to-day.
The Death Drum
By MARGARET PETERSON
Author of "To Love," "Butterfly Wings," "The Lure of the Little Drum,"
etc.
As in her last novel, "The Sword Points of Love," Miss Peterson has
chosen East Africa as the background for her new story. It is based on a
native superstition that very few white people know anything about, but
which may in time cause trouble. It has, at any rate, provided the
author with a fine idea for her novel, and she has made the best
possible use of it. The book is absorbingly interesting, full of
thrilling incident and adventure, and with many touches of native life
that are particularly effective, coming as they do from one who is
living among them.
Panther
A Comedy of Morals
By R. A. FOSTER-MELLIAR
Author of "Blindstone," "And Betty Too," etc.
A novel of country life, in which there is a good mixture of
love-making, hunting, intrigue, and almost murder. Two well-contrasted
and charming girls divide the honours as heroines, and uncertainty as to
what will happen to them is well kept up. There are some very
interesting characters capitally portrayed, and, above all, there is a
really good story well told in uncommonly good writing.
The Air Pirate
By C. RANGER-GULL
Author of "The Snare of the Fowler," etc.
The author dates his story forward, when rapid transit and transport
will be carried on by air. One of the great points about it is that the
author is the first in the field with his idea. The Air Pirate, a
mysterious figure, who had been a daring airman in the Great War, has
his lair in Cornwall, and raids the Atlantic with a wonderful airship.
There is a love story, in which a young English baronet of the
Government Air Police is the hero and a beautiful young actress the
heroine. She is carried off to Cornwall by the pirate, who is in love
with her, in his airship, and then follow many thrilling adventures in
the efforts of her young lover to discover her. One sensation follows
another rapidly, and the reader is kept in breathless suspense all
through. It is the best thing the author has yet done.
Love and the Cardinal
By J. H. SYMONS
Author of "The Supreme Mystery"
A story of the days of Cardinal Wolsey and the Court of Henry VIII. It
will appeal to all who like a good historical romance. The hero, a young
esquire, finds Wolsey, when he was but a poor parish priest, in the
village pillory and sets him free. When next they meet, Wolsey is the
powerful Cardinal, and the hero has been condemned to torture for trying
to save the Duke of Buckingham, whose daughter he worships. Wolsey helps
the hero and brings him to Court. There are plottings and jealousies and
narrow escapes, but in the end Love is triumphant.
Spade Work
By Mrs. HENRY DUDENEY
Author of "Candlelight," etc.
Another of the Author's stories of Sussex
Caroline Beech and her mother, with the airs of a duchess who has had to
do the work of a cook, and Enoch Wood, the musician who demands fame
above all things, and Juniper Sadgrove, with her glorious voice, are the
characters whose interplay form the plot of Mrs. Dudeney's latest novel.
She has set the scene in her loved Sussex, and her description of the
old-world village and its inhabitants is most delightful. Enoch's career
is the rock on which the ship of his love may be wrecked, but the
development of the story will hold the reader's attention to the last
page.
The Green Shoes of April
By RACHEL SWETE MACNAMARA
Author of "Morning Joy," "Lark's Gate," etc.
An Irish love story out of the common, and with many ups and downs, but
with a happy ending. It is, as one expects from Miss Macnamara,
unusually well written with excellent character drawing. Jasper Lysaght
made a mistaken marriage with an actress when he was very young. They
hold together but a little while, when he meets his true mate, but a
maliciously interfering grandmother and wounded pride separate them.
They come together again and marry, Jasper believing himself free, but
his first wife reappears. All, however, comes right in the end.
Shooting Stars
By SOPHIE KERR
An intensely dramatic novel of married life--the story of Harleth
Crossey ("as self-willed as a shooting star and about as uncomfortable
around the house"), and his wife Marcia--she made all the concessions,
all the adjustments and all the compromises until--something happened.
You might have called it a rebellion; it was a startling, if cruel
awakening as well.
The Master Mind
By FERGUS HUME
Author of "The Mystery of A Hansom Cab," "Heart of Ice." etc.
In the working out of the plot and the discovery of the master mind of a
gang of thieves the author keeps the reader's attention firmly fixed.
The book is written carefully; there are no great improbabilities; the
characters are human, not too good and not impossibly wicked; the
heroine is a charming natural girl, the hero a nice boy. There is a
mystery surrounding a murder and theft, and it might all have happened.
A good readable story.
A Whirlwind of Passion
By EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD
The publishers have pleasure in introducing the author with this novel.
It is perhaps not too much to say that since "Quo Vadis," no more
powerful historical romance has been produced. The story is most
dramatic, and the central figure is the great Catherine. The reader is
given a clear insight into the Russian Court and its intrigues. The time
of the story is the dramatic moment when the reign of the Empress
Elizabeth was drawing to a close, and the throne was hanging in the
balance. The author has seized on this tense situation, and told a
wonderful story of love, of passion, of plotting and ruthless power, of
murder and sudden death. It is a brilliant book, full of life, movement
and colour, and it is of particular interest at the present time.
Green Ladies
By DOUGLAS NEWTON
Author of "The War Caché," etc.
A charming story told in a delightful manner, recalling the work of
Henry Harland. The scene is in Hampshire, where some mystery attaches to
the lady owner of a house occupied temporarily by a much-travelled man,
who is recovering his health. How he becomes interested in the lady, how
he gradually discovers her story, how he labours to free her from the
cloud that oppresses her, and finally is made happy by her, is so
daintily and beautifully related, that one wishes to read many of the
pages over again. Mr. Douglas Newton goes a long step forward with this
novel, which reveals him in a new capacity.
Embers
By JULES DEPREND
_A novel that won a $10,000 prize in America._
This story of life among the French Canadians on the American border is
refreshingly outside the common run of novels. It is remarkable for its
terseness of expression and as a convincing piece of realism. It is as
strong and virile as Balzac, and its story so absorbing with its many
dramatic situations, that it holds the attention from beginning to end.
Against his father's wishes, the hero takes up a course of study with a
view to becoming a priest. During his holidays he sees much of a
neighbour's daughter, who had been a companion of his childhood. How he
succumbs, then decides to continue his studies abroad, and eventually
returns to his sweetheart and child is told in this powerful book, of
which it may be said that it is not only a fine piece of work, but one
of genius.
Firecracker Jane
By ALICE CALHOUN HAINES
A breathless romance of the Mexican border, with a spirited heroine, a
good sportswoman with a high sense of honour. How she is, under stress,
married by her Mexican cousin and plunged into the Mexican turmoil,
captured by a brutal revolutionist, and effects her escape, and how the
love tangle is unravelled, and she is left with her real love mate,
makes thrilling reading. The story is full of adventure, vivacious and
fresh.
The Cabin (La Barraca)
By V. BLASCO IBANEZ
Author of "+The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse+," etc.
Over a Quarter of a Million copies of this author's work have already
been sold in English speaking countries.
This may be said to be the masterpiece of a novelist who has established
himself as a great master. "The Cabin" was the book which first made
Ibanez's reputation outside Spain, and very large numbers of it have
been sold on the Continent and in America since its first appearance. It
is a vivid presentation of one side of Spanish life, and tells how a
hard-working farmer and his family are oppressed and wronged by his
neighbours, who had determined that the farm should not be tilled.
Disaster overtakes the family at the end of the conflict, and the
elemental theme of a blind communal hatred is thus worked out to its
logical conclusion. The story seems to write itself, so simply, and
perfectly is it done. It is a remarkable work of art.
The Terrible Island
By BEATRICE GRIMSHAW
Author of "In the Strange South Seas," "Red Bob of the Islands," etc.
This story has all the charm and glamour of the South Seas and a
background of grim mystery, which make a plot full of thrills as well as
of delightful romance. "The Lady of Sea," who appears in such strange
fashion and so charms the hearts of Flower and Owen Ireland, is a