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The

Fringe of the Desert By R. S. Macnamara

12 . $135 net By mail, $130

"And the Wist Man said: 'Those who love with passion stand on the Fringe of the Desert'; and they who heard laughed and passed on their way."

The atmosphere of Egypt glows and pulsates through the story, giving to the author an opportunity of showing that, not only figuratively but literally, these two lovers, Ingram and Hesper, stood on the Fringe of the Desert. It was her power of calling up vivid pictures of Egypt and the Desert that caused critics to compare a former story of Miss Macnamara's with the work of those magicians of the East, Robert Hichens and Pierre Loti. This new book promises to emphasize her strength in that particular.

New York G. P. Putnam's Sons London