ia Stockley

Author of "Poppy," "The Claw," "Wild Honey," etc.

No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the
weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley. She is a favored
medium through whom the great Dark Continent its tales unfolds.

A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm,--a hedge of Blue Aloes, a
cactus of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping
things,--a whisper and a summons in the dead of the night,--an odor of
death and the old.

There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the
sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmosphere of the Veldt.

* * * * *

G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York London

The Beloved Sinner

By

Rachel Swete Macnamara

Author of the "Fringe of the Desert," "The Torch of Life," and "Drifting
Waters"

One of the very prettiest of springtime romances--a tale of exuberant
young spirits intoxicated with the springtime of living, of love gone
adventuring on the rough road--a story, humorous with the gay impudences
of a young Eve who is half-afraid and altogether delighted with her
fairy-prince.

G.P. Putnam's Sons

New York London

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