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Stanley Paul's New Six Shilling Novels continued.
The Three Destinies.
Author of
J. A. T. LLOYD
" The Lady of Russian Realist," etc.
Kensington
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Gardens," A Great
The scene of this novel opens in the Elgin Room of the British Museum, where its
dramatis personal are grouped by chance in front of the familiar statue of the " Three
Fates." Among them are three young girls and a boy of eighteen, all quite at the
beginning of things and vaguely interested in the mysterious future before them.
The fact that they have grouped themselves in front of this particular statue attracts
the attention of an old professor, who determines to bring them together again, and
experiment with their young lives with the same curiosity that a chemist experiments
with chemicals. The seene shifts from the Elgin Room to Ireland, and then to Paris
and Brittany, Vienna and Dalmatia, but the hero is always under the spell of that
first chance meeting in front of the statue. One person after the other plays with his
life, and again and again he and the others report themselves on New Year's Day
to the old professor, who reads half mockingly the jumble of lives that he himself has
produced. In the end the hero realises that these young girls have become to him
in turn modern interpreters of the three ancient Destinies.
The King's Master.
OLIVE LETHBRIDGE and JOHN DE STOURTON
A novel dealing with the troubulous times of Henry VIII., in which the political
situation, Court intrigues and religious discussions of the period are treated in a
masterly manner. A strong love element is introduced, and the characters of Anne
Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell are presented in an entirely new light, while
plot and counter-plot, hair-breadth escapes, love, hate, revenge, and triumph all go
to form the theme.
Maggie of Margate.
GABRIELLE WODNIL
A Romance of the Idle Rich.
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Maggie of Margate," a beautiful girl with an unobtrusive style which attracted
nine men out of ten, was in reality an exclusive lady of title, bored because she
sighed for realism and romance, and was affianced to a prospective peer. How she
contrived a dual individuality is the pith of the story, which is in no way high flown.
Maggie is a delightful creation, and her very erring frailty and duplicity makes us
pity her the more. She cannot break away finally from her social status, but to
retain it she nearly breaks her heart. The man of her fancy, Michael Blair, is the
most striking figure in the whole story, which teems with varied characters, all of
which hold us intently from the first page to the last. All the world loves a
lover, and, therefore, every one will love Michael Blair.
The Celebrity's Daughter.
VIOLET HUNT
Author of " The Doll," " White Rose of Weary Leaf," etc,
Life-like portraits, a tangled plot, only fully unravelled in the last chapter, go to
the making of Miss Violet Hunt's stories. "The Celebrity's Daughter" has the
humour, smart dialogue, the tingling life of this clever writer's earlier novels. It
b the autobiography of the daughter of a celebrity who has fallen on evil days. Told
in the author's inimitable style.
Paul Burdon. SIR WILLIAM MAGNAY
Author of " The Fruits of Indiscretion," " The Long Hand," etc.
This is a strong story full of exciting incidents. The hero is a farmer crippled for
want of capital, which he finds quite unexpectedly. A thunderstorm and an irate
husband cause a young banker to seek refuge at the farm, from which a loud knocking
causes further retreat to a big family tomb, which becomes his own when the lightning
brings some old ruins down and buries both. The banker's bag of gold falls into the
hands of the farmer, who profits by its use. Other characters play important parts,
and love interest adds its softening charm.
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