SUN'S NEW SERIAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 217, 17 October 1914, Page 8

SUN'S NEW SERIAL.

"WHEN A WOMAN " DREAMS." THE EVILS OF THE CARD TABLE. Mme. Albanesi, the author of The Sun 's new /serial, /'AWheiv ;a. ••Dreams,'' has more than a Continental reputation for writing.Option. Her popularity extends to America and Austral- / asia, and it has cppie. to be recognised that anything from Mme. Albanesi'spen is well worth while. There is no falling away from that high standard in the - story which will be begun in bur colutiins 'on Monday nextj-and continued daily until it runs out, Very, early the writer introduces the readers to one ofher . xnost interesting characters, Lady Irene* Newtrie, the ybung wifdi of Sir TraneisNewtrie, an eminent London.surgeoni Lady Newtrie plays cards,.with the re- ; suit suggested by her following admission to her suave cousin, Nigel Rivers: ' r l have 'lost'just "on £BOO. 1 That, -with my awful i makes, aueaady £2ooov to meet." Where »»•<* «-*«»» «ttS» $, , to get the moneys Affter considerable persuasion by the crafty Rivers, she *. agrees to his suggestion'tthat he should • arrange a loan for her on some 6f ;i her jewels, and on .her share (£2.5,000) .of a large legacy bequeathed to the surgeon • by an old and grateful patient, unsuspectingly rich. .Unfortunately for :her plans Newtrie discovers the girl; Who by right should . have .. ijiherite«,l / the - money, and there*via;, no ..question'--vbut'% what he will see justice done. The plot has become interestingly" complex"in, the ' - first two or three chapters, and it prove? a tangled skein indeed. Its unravelling is not compassed- without tears and heartaches', but' the author. iiVaSages with her usual skill to keep the siinshine predominant. The entanglement -of Lady Newtrie, and her struggling in the web of her own and her cousin's weaving, is a masterly style. $ '' When a' Woman Dreams' 7 is one of " the most moving serials The Sun has yet presented to its ieaders.