Chapter V (4)

Miss V. Sackville-West is already well known as a writer of distinguished verse, but this is her first essay in fiction. Her subject is the influence of heredity, and shows the effect of a strain of Spanish blood on a stolid Sussex stock, as manifested in the persons of a young woman and her cousin, whom she subsequently marries. The story has most unusual literary and dramatic values; but while it is first of all remarkable for its literary style, its beautiful descriptions and power of creative imagination, it presents against this background a steadfast realism of action and psychology. The biological parallel of the ‘waltzing mice’ that in some sense follow the fortunes of the heroine is an original and charming invention. _Heritage_ is certainly one of the most arresting first novels published in the last ten years.

THE CARAVAN MAN

By ERNEST GOODWIN

For the right sort of people, Life, in even these drab times, holds romance and beauty, fun and whimsical adventure. Bamfield, camping in his caravan on Ouseton Common, found himself involved in a whirlpool of surprising events. He had imagined himself quite a serious person, immovably a bachelor wedded to art. ‘Oh! Indeed!’ Fate seems to have chuckled to itself, and proceeded to deal with him in the proper manner. At the finish, Bamfield, giddy, breathless (perhaps in his secret soul a trifle alarmed), discovered that he was holding Rose Nieugent by the hand--and holding her tight!

_Recent Publications_

A WRITER’S RECOLLECTIONS

By MRS HUMPHRY WARD

_Demy 8vo._
12s. 6d. _net_

(_New Edition with Index_)

All the famous names are here ... the people themselves ... veritably alive.’--_Contemporary Review._

THE WAR AND ELIZABETH

By MRS HUMPHRY WARD

(_Second Impression_)

‘A brilliant study of contemporary life.’--_Truth._

PETROGRAD

(_Second Impression_)

(THE CITY OF TROUBLE), 1914–1918

By MERIEL BUCHANAN

(_Daughter of the British Ambassador_)

Mr Hugh Walpole, in his foreword, says:--‘This book is the first attempt of any writer in any language to give to the world a sense of the _atmosphere_ of Russia under the shock and terror of those world-shaking events.’

_Large Crown 8vo._ 7s. 6d. _net_.

FOE-FARRELL

(_Second Impression_)

By “Q” (Sir ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH)

‘A vivid story with plenty of incident.’--_The Times._

KAREN

By MRS ALFRED SIDGWICK

(_Third Impression_)

‘A candid picture of German social life.’--_The Globe._

GOD’S COUNTERPOINT

By J. D. BERESFORD

(_Third Impression_)

‘The most considerable and most distinguished novel that has been published in England since the war.’--_The Daily Express._

THE BURNING GLASS

By MARJORIE BOWEN

(_Second Impression_)

A thrilling romance of Paris before the Revolution.

CITIES AND SEA COASTS AND ISLANDS

By ARTHUR SYMONS

7s. 6d. _net_.

Mr Symons gives in this book a very vivid impression of places he has lived in. The visible world exists very actively for him.

WREN’S WIFE

(_Second Impression_)

By CYRIL RUSSELL

A charming comedy with a background of tragedy, deftly handled.

VERDUN DAYS IN PARIS

By MARJORIE GRANT

A charming record of Miss Grant’s war-work in Paris during the siege of Verdun.

A NEW WAY OF HOUSEKEEPING

By CLEMENTINA BLACK

3s. 6d. _net_.

‘Just the things every woman ought to know.’--_The Glasgow Citizen._

THE WOMEN NOVELISTS

By R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON

Readers of this brilliant book will turn with a fresh interest to their Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Fanny Burney, and the host of other notable women novelists. Mr Brimley Johnson writes not only acutely but also entertainingly of those great women who laid the foundations of the modern English novel, and boldly claims that they invented it.

BUZZ, BUZZ!

By CAPT. J. E. AGATE

7s. 6d. _net_.

This book on the theatre was prepared for the press and largely written while on active service. No more luminous and suggestive book on the theatre has appeared in recent years.

MUMMERY

By GILBERT CANNAN

A Romance of the Theatre.

TONY HERON

By C. KENNETT BURROW

The story of a temperamental antagonism which leads to tragedy, but tragedy not without hope. Tony Heron himself, whom we follow from boyhood to maturity, is by no means the sport of circumstance; the circumstances are moulded by environment and blood, not arbitrary happenings. The setting is, for the most part, in pre-war England, and a countryside which will probably never be the same again.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, renumbered into one sequence, and placed at the end of the book, just before the advertisements.

Page 130: “made the sounds” was printed that way; may be a misprint for “rounds.”