Part 37 (1/2)

Mary Olivier: A Life

BY MAY SINCLAIR,

Author of ”The Tree of Heaven,” etc.

No novel of the war period made a more profound impression than did Miss Sinclair's ”The Tree of Heaven.” The announcement of a new book by this distinguished author is therefore most welcome. ”Mary Olivier” is a story in Miss Sinclair's best manner. Once again she has chosen a theme of vital interest and has treated it with the superb literary skill which has put her among the really great of contemporary novelists.

A woman's life, her thoughts, sensations and emotions directly presented, without artificial narrative or a.n.a.lysis, without autobiography.

The main interest lies in Mary Olivier's search for Reality, her relations with her mother, father and three brothers, and her final pa.s.sage from the bondage of infancy, the conflicts of childhood and adolescence, the disenchantments (and other drawbacks) of maturity, to the freedom, peace and happiness of middle-age.

The period covered is from 1865 when Mary is two years old to 1910 when she is forty-seven.

EDEN PHILLPOTTS' NEW NOVEL

Storm in a Teacup

BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS

Author of ”The Spinners,” ”Old Delabole,” ”Brunel's Towers,” etc.

This carries on Mr. Phillpotts' series of novels dealing with the human side of the different industries. Here the art of paper making furnishes the background. The theme is somewhat humorous in nature. A young wife picks a quarrel 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.

From Father to Son

BY MARY S. WATTS

Author of ”Nathan Burke,” ”The Rise of Jennie Gus.h.i.+ng,” ”The Boardman Family,” etc.

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.