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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14525, 12 November 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

"Angela," by Mr. St. John Trevor (Stanley' Paul and Company, London), is an idyll which barely escapes a tragic ending. Forsyth, whose " feet were opposite the thirtieth milestone," had been living for years the life of a gay bachelor. His mother's illness takes himto Switzerland, and there, on a mountain slope, somewhat remote from the beaten track of tourists, he meets Angela Ismay, a maiden unspotted by the world, and forthwith jettisons his cynical views on matrimony. Forsyth marries her at the bedside of "her dying mother, and shortly afterwards returns alone to London, Saving learnt that the bulk of his fortune has been lost by the failure of a bank. He then styks to drown his cares in dissipation, incurs debts of honour which he cannot meet, and is startled by the discovery that the rich young widow with a lurid past, who was at no pains to conceal her infatuation for him, is his sister-in-law, and had been scheming with a villain to ruin Angela in order thereby to serve her own selfish ends. The closing scene, when the widow's conscience is stricken with remorse, is intensely dramatic.

Mr. Rider Haggard's new story, " Queen Sheba's ring," will remind its readers of the incomparable " She." The scene is laid in Northern Central Africa, where an anacient city is possessed by a mysterious tribe, descended from Abyssinian Jews. This tribe is ruled by a woman— Child of Kings—whose signet -is the famous ring. The story is told by Dr. Adams, who has led an expedition to the city, partly to release it from a besieging horde of savages and partly to try and find his only son, who is a prisoner of the besieging forces.

"The Fortunate Princeling," by A. D. Bright, illustrated by Harry Rountree (Duckworth and Company, London) contains four fairy-tales, with coloured plates, and black-and-white illustrations. The tales are partly Australasian and partly European, so that we have the morepork, the rata and the bell : bird in some, and the " North wind rushing south from its home among the icebergs" in another. The little volume is an attractive one, the coloured work in particular being excellent.

"Letters from a Sanatorium" (George Robertson and Company, Sydney), will interest everybody-'who wishes to know what impression is produced upon patients by sanatorium life, bow time is put in, and what the treatment is like—from the patient's point of view.

" Gala"had Jones," by A. Adams, with 16 illustrations by Norman Lindsay (John Lane, London), will be familiar to readers of the Lone Hand, all of whom will be able to recommend it to their friends as a very readable book for the holiday.