The moneyless heir to a peerage wins the Newdigate Prize at Oxford, and also, as he believes, a beautiful and dangerous woman who has saved his life. Betrayed by her, he fights his way, like a man, against all odds, a delightful young princess of ideal type being his good angel. A strong vein of humour carries the reader through an intricate plot, while vivid pictures of Oxford life lend colour to a stirring story.
There are few novelists whose works deserve more respectful consideration than those of Lucas Cleeve. She has written stories of a high order, but she has never surpassed in interest or in power her new book ‘Mademoiselle Nellie.’ It is a story of English and French life, and offers a careful study of the differing characteristics of the two peoples. The book abounds in felicitous phrases, in dramatic moments, and in deft touches of pathos.
=IN SPITE OF THE CZAR.= By GUY BOOTHBY, Author of ‘Dr. Nikola,’ etc. With 8 Illustrations. 5s.
In this fine tissue of romance and realism we have a wide range both in scenery and in incident. The invention of ‘Velvet Coat’ as a distinctive sobriquet is an original idea, and whether in an English country mansion, on the St. Petersburg pavements, or at Irkutsk, or in any other of the scenes so well painted, we are carried on from page to page with breathless expectation. All sorts and conditions of men, and of women, too, cross the stage of this fresh drama, and it is full of exactly what delights the jaded reader—after turning from third-rate romance—namely, the unexpected.
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=THE MYSTERY OF FOUR WAYS= FLORENCE WARDEN, Author of ‘The House on the Marsh’
=MATILDA, COUNTESS OF TUSCANY= MRS. MARY E. HUDDY. Demy 8vo., with Illustrations, =12s.= net.
In these picturesque pages we have, in a manner, the processional march of the early Norman soldier settlers in the land of the Olive, and we have also the extraordinary career set forth in that heroic daughter of the Roman Church, Matilda, the great Countess of Tuscany, who devoted her whole life and vast fortune to sustaining against all comers the temporal rights of Holy Mother Church. Pope Gregory the Seventh, Godfrey, the Hunchback Duke, and Henry IV., the ambitious German Emperor, and many other famous characters, move across these vivid pages in their habits and as they really lived. No life of the Great Countess, Matilda of Tuscany, has yet appeared in this country.