hing. "Her natural element is the country home."

THE END.

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

The Reproof of Chance

The Blind Alley

The Daughter-in-Law

Baba and the Black Sheep

Sinners All

Mistress of Herself

_A Selection from the Catalogue of_

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

Blue Aloes

By Cynthia Stockley

Author of "Poppy," "The Claw," "Wild Honey," etc.

No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the
weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley. She is a favored
medium through whom the great Dark Continent its tales unfolds.

A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm,--a hedge of Blue Aloes, a
cactus of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping
things,--a whisper and a summons in the dead of the night,--an odor of
death and the old.

There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the
sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmosphere of the Veldt.

* * * * *

Unconquered

By Maud Diver

Author of "Captain Desmond, V.C.," "Desmond's Daughter," "The Great
Amulet," etc.

In this book, Maud Diver proves that she needs no Indian background
against which to work a powerful and emotional drama. This novel is
called by the author, "an episode of 1914," and is the story of a
vigorous out-of-doors man who, severely wounded, is brought home in the
early days of the war, and of the girl who is repelled by the physical
imperfections of her one-time handsome and sturdy lover. The other sort
of girl is also in this tale, the slacker and the pacifist. It is a
strong story, admirably told by a master novelist.

* * * * *

Desmond's Daughter

By

Maud Diver

"_Desmond's Daughter_ is an Anglo-Indian novel of much more than
ordinary importance. As a study of a complex character it has
remarkable power.... Mrs. Diver understands the English officer
thoroughly and does not spare his weaknesses; but that she
appreciates his good points is shown in her true and vivid story of
the Tirah Campaign. It is this which gives the book the right to be
regarded as an historical novel of first importance; and there is
no more striking illustration of our methods of governing and
holding our Indian Empire than this stimulating and convincing
story."--_Aberdeen Free Press._

"The present War is not mentioned in the