rel with her husband because he is commonplace, and elopes
with a man of high intellectual ability. Finding him, however, extremely
prosaic and a bore, she is glad in the end to return to her first love.

The elopement, it might be explained, was purely a nominal one, carried
out on a high moral basis with the most tender respect for the lady's
reputation and character. This fact leads to a number of unusual and
frequently amusing situations.

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From Father to Son

BY MARY S. WATTS

Author of "Nathan Burke," "The Rise of Jennie Gushing," "The Boardman
Family," etc.

_Cloth, 12 mo._

The hero of Mrs. Watts' new story is a young man belonging to a very
wealthy family, who has had every sort of luxury and advantage and who,
upon entering his father's office after leaving college, finds that the
huge fortune founded by his grandfather was mainly made by profiteering on
the grandfather's part during the Civil War. The question is what is this
young man of the present day to do? He is high-minded and sensitive and
the problem is a difficult one. What, too, is his own father to do--also a
man of sterling character, though of a sterner type. The theme which grows
out of this situation is one of singular interest and power and involves a
moving crowd of characters.

Among these is the hero's sister, who marries a German attache at the
embassy in Washington; and another sister, who marries a young man of the
same social set--and things happen. There is a drunken scalawag of a
relative--who might be worse, and there are one or two other people whom
readers of Mrs. Watts' books have met before. The dates of the story are
from 1911 to the present year.

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_H. G. WELLS' NEW NOVEL_

Joan and Peter

_Cloth, 12mo, $1.75_

"Never has Mr. Wells spread for such a gorgeous panorama ... a living
story ... a vivacious narrative imperturbable in interest on every page,
always fresh and personal and assured.... This is not a novel--it is a
library. It is everything that one needs to know about the public life of
the significant classes in England for last twenty-five years."--_The
Dial_.

"Mr Wells, at his highest point of attainment.... An absorbingly
interesting book ... consummate artistry ... here is Wells, the story
teller, the master of narrative."--_N.Y. Evening Sun_.

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_A NEW NOVEL BY W