‘Have you read “The Storm of London”?’ is the question which will be on the lips of everyone. No novel published within recent times is comparable with it for audacity. It is described as a social rhapsody, and the author certainly portrays with no flattering pen the worse side of high-class society. But it is something more. It is a work of imagination, daringly original, and set boldly in a frame of modern realism. Yet there is no sadness in the book—only laughter. The author possesses rare courage and discretion, and his story can give no offence to any reader with the saving gift of humour. Again we ask, ‘Have you read “The Storm of London”?’
Daring in conception, masterly in execution, and strong in real human interest is Mr. George Manville Fenn’s new story, which deals with the amazing doings of fashionable London life. That such things can be seems almost past belief, and yet, given the actual circumstances, and the consequences are perfectly natural. The feminine interest is particularly strong in this particularly strong story.
=THE AMBASSADOR’S GLOVE.= By ROBERT MACHRAY
Mr. Robert Machray’s plots are conceived with an ingenuity that baffles the most practised reader. ‘The Ambassador’s Glove’ is a story of a formidable domestic conspiracy in which the Foreign Office, the Secret Service, and a peculiar society called The Brotherhood, are involved in a battle royal. The weapons employed are abduction, assassination, and blackmail. It is a story that cannot fail to go into many editions.
The chief characteristics of ‘Lady Sylvia’ are passion and intelligence. It is a story of the eternal conflict between love and duty, and is rendered the more powerful because it is written with the consummate mastery which is now associated with the name of Lucas Cleeve.
=THE WATERS OF OBLIVION.= By ADELINE SERGEANT
Miss Adeline Sergeant is a writer who has endeared herself to countless thousands of novel-readers. Her books are always human, and she believes in happy endings, but the way is set with temptations and storms and difficulties before the haven is finally reached. In her new story, ‘The Waters of Oblivion,’ Miss Sergeant displays all her old qualities, and it must create for her a host of new friends.