By Kathleen Norris Author of "Mother"

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When it is rumored about in Santa Paloma that Mrs. Burgoyne, a widow and
heiress to many millions, has bought an old-fashioned and somewhat
run-down estate and intends to make her home in the little California
town, food for gossip at all the bridge clubs is furnished for more than
one meeting. To live well in Santa Paloma involves heavy expenditures
for all sorts of social functions and many a family feels the strain
which, however, they would not admit for worlds. The society clique
think that everything will be run on even a more gorgeous scale with
Mrs. Burgoyne's millions in the game, but they reckon without the
possessor of these millions, as the successive events of the story show
in a highly entertaining fashion.

LONDON LAVENDER
By E. V. Lucas

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We meet again several of the fine characters with whom Mr. Lucas has
already made us acquainted in his other novels as well as others equally
interesting and entertaining. The intimate sketches of various phases of
London life--visits to the Derby, Zoo, the National Gallery--are
delightfully chronicled and woven into a novel that is a most charming
entertainment.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York

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NEW MACMILLAN FICTION--Continued

THE DRIFTING DIAMOND
By Lincoln Colcord
With Frontispiece in Colors by Anton Fischer

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The strange effects which the possession of a gem of marvelous beauty
and great value has upon several sharply differentiated characters is
the thread with which this dramatic tale of events is woven. The
combination of the mystical, the imaginative and the realistic makes
very unusual reading. The diamond has the power of making its owner love
it not for what it means in money, but for itself; it also has in it a
lurking devil which portends evil happenings. The series of incidents
which these qualities in the gem bring about, taken with the love story,
which runs through it all, comprise a novel which holds the reader's
attention from the very first adventure to the final outcome.

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A New Novel
By James Lane Allen

THE HEROINE IN BRONZE

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