Ethel M. Dell, in a few weeks, is to give us "The Prison House." Here, the shadow of a crime casts its blight on a wife and her son, Beresford. The book is conceived ju Miss Dell's usual highly coloured and intensely romantic vein. "Mortimer Brice," by Robert Hitchins, once again tells the kind of story we have long come to associate with this super best-seller. It is a clever character study of a man who, to his undoing, is endowed with physical beauty, physical strength and a. harmful quantity of sex appeal. Alec Waugh has just completed "No Quarter," a tale of adventure which covers three centuries of world history in two hemispheres and three hundred and twenty pages of world "novel. I will conclude Cassell's list, for the time being, with mention of Wyndham Lewis's "Snooty and Horace Annesley Machells's "Experiences of a Bond Street Jeweller."
Truly, a varied shelf-full.
The End of The Herries Saga Those who have not yet read Mr. Hugh Walpole's great works of fiction, "Rogue Herries" and Judith Paris" should hasten to right this omission. For on August 25th Messrs. Macmillan & Ca. are publish-jug the third volume of the chronic cles of the Herries family. The story of "The Fortress" is of the same spacious and intricate structure as the earlier volumes of the same series and no less generously peopled and adorned.
It covers a period of English soial life from 1825—1875, and the background is in part Cumberland, in part London. In "The Fortress" Judith Paris remains the principal figure as she did in Mr. Walpole's previous book,. Her personality holds together all the many varied threads of this great family ditama.
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