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$1.50 The success of Mr. Morrison's recent books, "The Green Diamond" and "The Red Triangle," has led to an imperative demand for the reissue of "The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt," which has been out of print for a number of years. It will be remembered that Martin Hewitt is the detective in "The Red Triangle," of whom the _New York Tribune_ said: "Better than Sherlock Holmes." His adventures in the London slums were of such a nature that the _Philadelphia North American_ said: "The reader who has a grain of fancy or imagination may be defied to lay this book down once he has begun it until the last word is reached." Mystery Island. By EDWARD H. HURST. Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispiece $1.50 A hunting camp on a swampy island in the Florida Everglades furnishes the background for this present-day tale. By the murder of one of their number, the secret of egress from the island is lost, and the campers find themselves marooned. Cut off from civilization, conventional veneer soon wears away. Love, hate, and revenge spring up, and after the sterner passions have had their sway the man and the woman are left alone to fulfil their own destiny. While there is much that is unusual in the plot and its development, Mr. Hurst has handled his subject with fine delicacy, and the tale of their love on the beautiful little island is told with deep sympathy and feeling. The Flying Cloud. By MORLEY ROBERTS, author of "The Promotion of the Admiral," "Rachel Marr," "The Idlers," etc. Cloth decorative, with a colored frontispiece $1.50 Mr. Roberts's new book is much more than a ripping good sea story such as might be expected from the author of "The Promotion of the Admiral." In "The Flying Cloud" the waters and the winds are gods personified. Their every mood and phase are described in words of telling force. There is no world but the waste of waters. Mr. Roberts glories and exults in the mystery, the passion, the strength of the elements, as did the Viking chroniclers of old. He understands them and loves them and interprets them as no other writer has heretofore done. The book is too big for conventional phrases. It needs Mr. Roberts's own richness of imagery and masterly expression to describe adequately the word-pictures in this epic of wind and waves. Selections from L.C. Page and Company's List of Fiction WORKS OF ROBERT NEIL
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