ILADY MARY OF THE DARK HOUSE,

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 88

ILADY MARY OF THE DARK HOUSE,

By Mrs C. N. Williamson. London : T. Fisher Unwin. Price, Is, in paper cover. "Lady Mary of the Dark House" is a novel of the kind more in vogue a decade or so back than at the present day — a stoiy of romance, in which the reader is regaled with mystery, forcible abduc- | tion, confinement in a house guarded by a giant and a number of fierce dogs, imprisonment in a private lunatic asylum, murder by poison, and finally the suicide of the murderess. Added to this we have, as in "East Lynne,"' a divorced wife acting as servant to her daughter, only in this case the divorcee is innocent, having been made the victom of a plot by Lady Mary, a most beautiful woman, with a figure perfect in matured ripeness, large, bright, commanding almond-shaped eyes ; nose as finely cut as that of an ideal Minerva ; brows suggesting imperiousness; mouth perfectly shaped with lull lips lying scarlet as a geranium flower against the wax white of the clear, unwrinkled skin — a goddess of beauty, with a power of fascination which few could resist, yet a cruel, wicked woman, who scrupled at nothing to gain her ends. For those who take a delight in supping on sucj^ horrors "Lady Mary of the Dark House" will be found to fill the bill.