worthy of a place in every library.  The author in his introduction, remarks that he has tried to make the book anything rather than encyclopaedic, topographical, or archaeological, and beyond that somewhat negative phrase it is difficult to give any more complete designation to the work.  For the treatment of the subject is altogether original, this attraction being intensified by the particularly graceful style in which a remarkable gift of observation finds expression.

The Novel of the Season

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THE HOUSE OF MERRILEES. 6/- By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL, Author of “Peter Binney, Undergraduate”

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“The best mystery novel since Sir A. Conan Doyle’s ’Sign of Four.’”—­Daily Graphic.

“Can recommend cordially and with confidence to those who like a really good story, well constructed and excellently told.”—­Punch.

“A really satisfactory tale of mystery is always sure of its welcome, and ‘The House of Merrilees’ ought to secure wide popularity.”—­Daily Mail.

“Great ingenuity is shown in the way in which clue is crossed by counter-clue.”—­The Daily Telegraph.

“It is a pleasure to praise a book of this kind, and rare to find one in which a narrative of absorbing interest is combined with so many literary graces.”—­The Bookman.

“A very engrossing story.”—­Graphic.

“The best story of its kind we have read for years.”—­Guardian.