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Southland Times, Issue 15186, 17 March 1902, Page 2

Marietta, a Maid of Venice, by F. Marion Cmwford. The World says: "In his prosent work, as in The Palace of the King, his brilliant romance of a night in Madrid, Mr Marion Crawford creates the atmosphere for us ; the men and women of the old days of Doges (Christof oro Mora had yet one year to live), and the Council of Ten, the types cf the nobles, the conspirators, the ruffians of those days, the semi-Oriental conditions cf life for women, and the absolute disregard of everything but bargain in the making ci marriages, are all round us as we read.* The Sketch says : "No one who has every visited Venice i*nd come under its spell, caa aflord to miss Marietta."— 3s 6d and3s 6c! at Lillicrap & Cos. 'Is this heaven's bliaa that I taste V cried the ecstatic lover, as he creased his lips to her cheek. 'No, 1 snid the innooenb young thing, •that's sachet powder. 1 Kainir, which ia theoheaj.e.fc form, of pa:;, tub, is most advantageously applied in autumn or early winter.