A Novel of Compelling Interest
The Heart of Desire
By ELIZABETH DEJEANS
Author of “The Winning Chance.”
A remarkable novel, full of vital force, which gives us a glimpse into the innermost sanctuary of a woman’s soul—a revelation of the truth that to a woman there may be a greater thing than the love of a man—the story pictured against a wonderful Southern California background.
“One of the big headliners in bookland.”
—Detroit News.
“The book is a tissue of mysteries, quite apart from the ordinary usages, but solved in the end satisfactorily.”
—Chicago Tribune.
“One of those rare examples of literary composition the artistic excellence of which is uniform and even throughout.”
—Charleston News and Courier.
“There is color, vitality, and freshness in the picture, and charming variety of detail in the development of story. Horton is the ideal lover, strong-hearted, wilful, persevering; and Kate is the vivid, tantalizing, impersonal creature in an armor of secrecy. But the author transforms this woman into a being of rarest and most beautiful human qualities—or rather, brings those latent emotions to the fore. She is a woman racked by grief over death and unhappy marital experiences in youth, and, later, a woman ‘lied to, tortured, duped, and her heart polluted and desecrated’; and in giving up her beloved lawyer-friend, whom she would have married, to the ’helpless, motherless, hampered’ child who so passionately claimed his love, Kate’s humanism stands out in almost supernatural power.”
—Boston Evening Transcript.
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“A Powerful Portrayal of the Strongest Passions”
IN AMBUSH
By MARIE VAN VORST
Author of “The Sin of George Warrener,” etc.
A striking novel of adventure, mystery, and romance, with varied change of scene. The story opens in an Alaskan mining camp, then moves to Egypt, where a stirring battle between the British and the wild tribes of the Sudan is depicted, and finally returns to this country and Kentucky. Miss Van Vorst has done the unusual in making her hero a man with an unsavory past, but whose redemption and repentance are so sincere the sympathy and admiration of the reader are completely with him.
“Full of incidents of a strong and stirring nature which will keep the interest of the reader strongly exercised.”
—New York Sun.
“A Stirring Story of Conspiracy”
The Man in the Tower
By RUPERT S. HOLLAND
Author of “The Count at Harvard,” etc.
A dramatic story based upon the legend of “the invisible prince,” John Christian XX, Prince of Athelstein, whose throne was stolen from him by the regent while he was forced into banishment. The narrative tells how the prince played a winning game in thwarting the conspirator by marrying the very princess whom the regent was depending upon for the carrying out his nefarious schemes.
“He handles his plot of mystery and surprise with infinite discretion. And he sweeps us along with him from cover to cover without a diminution of interest.”
—Boston Evening Transcript.
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Footnotes
A The Partridge:—The book was no doubt “The History of Tom Jones,” by Fielding, which had been translated into French some years before.—Translator’s note.
B See footnote A.