“The stories are touched with a peculiar delicacy and whimsicality.”—­Los Angeles Times.

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NEW MACMILLAN FICTION

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The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

By H.G.  WELLS.

Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 net.

The name of H.G.  Wells upon a title page is an assurance of merit.  It is a guarantee that on the pages which follow will be found an absorbing story told with master skill.  In the present book Mr. Wells surpasses even his previous efforts.  He is writing of modern society life, particularly of one very charming young woman, Lady Harman, who finds herself so bound in by conventions, so hampered by restrictions, largely those of a well intentioned but short sighted husband, that she is ultimately moved to revolt.  The real meaning of this revolt, its effect upon her life and those of her associates are narrated by one who goes beneath the surface in his analysis of human motives.  In the group of characters, writers, suffragists, labor organizers, social workers and society lights surrounding Lady Harman, and in the dramatic incidents which compose the years of her existence which are described by Mr. Wells, there is a novel which is significant in its interpretation of the trend of affairs today, and fascinatingly interesting as fiction.  It is Mr. Wells at his best.

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Thracian Sea

A Novel by JOHN HELSTON, Author of “Aphrodite,” etc.

With frontispiece in colors.  Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.

Probably no author to-day has written more powerfully or frankly on the conventions of modern society than John Helston, who, however, has hitherto confined himself to the medium of verse.  In this novel, the theme of which occasionally touches upon the same problems—­problems involving love, freedom of expression, the right to live one’s life in one’s own way—­he is revealed to be no less a master of the prose form than of the poetical.  While the book is one for mature minds, the skill with which delicate situations are handled and the reserve everywhere exhibited remove it from possible criticism even by the most exacting.  The title, it should be explained, refers to a spirited race horse with the fortunes of which the lives of two of the leading characters are bound up.

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