castaway to a beautiful and subtle woman. Sir Oliver
falls in love with his ward, and she becomes my Lady and the
mistress of a great house; but to the New Englanders she remains a
Sabbath-breaker and "Lady-Good-for-Nothing." The scene moves to
Lisbon, whither Sir Oliver goes on Government service, and there is
a wonderful picture of the famous earthquake. The book is a story of
an act of folly, and its heavy penalties, and also the record of the
growth of two characters--one from atheism to reverence, and the
other from a bitter revolt against the world to a wiser philosophy.
The tale is original in scheme and setting, and the atmosphere and
thought of another age are brilliantly reproduced. No better
historical romance has been written in our times.

PANTHER'S CUB. _Agnes and Egerton Castle._

This is the story of a world-famed _prima donna_, whose only
daughter has been brought up in a very different world from that in
which her mother lives. When the child grows to womanhood she joins
her mother, and the problem of the book is the conflict of the two
temperaments--the one sophisticated and undisciplined, and the other
simple and sincere. The scenes are laid in Vienna and London, amid
all types of society--smart, artistic, and diplomatic. Against the
Bohemian background the authors have worked out a very beautiful
love story of a young diplomatist and the singer's daughter. The
book is full of brilliant character-sketches and dramatic moments.

TREPANNED. _John Masefield._

Mr. Masefield has already won high reputation as poet and dramatist,
and his novel "Captain Margaret" showed him to be a romancer of a
higher order. "Trepanned" is a story of adventure in Virginia and
the Spanish Main. A Kentish boy is trepanned and carried off to sea,
and finds his fill of adventure among Indians and buccaneers. The
central episode of the book is a quest for the sacred Aztec temple.
The swift drama of the narrative, and the poetry and imagination of
the style, make the book in the highest sense literature. It should
appeal not only to all lovers of good writing, but to all who care
for the record of stirring deeds.

THE SIMPKINS PLOT. _George A. Birmingham._

"Spanish Gold" has been the most mirth