"Sr. Peren axe Tae North, published Ly This the story of the life and]. death of Sir St, Peter Ledborough, one time eminent portrait painter. The story is laid according to classic tradition, within twen four hours. But here the com; son stops, for the characters and atmosphere are decidedly twentieth century. A chance encounter young woman whose profile conforms to the ideal which he hi treasured during a life time, leads him to sketch what proves tobe his last work. The coincidence upon which the chain of events hangs is. that the car of Virginia Dare, the rich attractive and very modern who is in love with Stephen Merridew hho allows nothing to the business of life. Therefore he does not allow time to pass before he finds the subject of the last sketch made by the Master. Comedy, tragedy a and brilliant delineation of character characterize this latest of the books of John North, not the least of these being the little domestic scene between the father and the mother of the famous "Profile."—18.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.