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MACMILLAN FICTION

THE FRIAR OF WITTENBERG

By WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS. 6s.

In the character of Martin Luther Mr. Davis has found admirable material around which to build an historical novel of more than ordinary importance. He has succeeded above all else in making this, picturesque figure live, imparting to the stirring episodes in which he played a part so much of reality that the reader is enabled to visualise as perhaps never before the conditions leading to the religious revolt of which the Friar of Wittenberg was so powerful a leader. The story is told in the first person by Walter von Lichtenstein, a young German nobleman who, apart from Luther, is the hero. In effect, it is a vivid working- out of two forces which are striving for the possession of Walter's soul the semi-pagan, immoral beauty of sixteenth- century Italy as represented by Marianna di Forli, the daughter of a Roman cardinal, and the more restrained, less sophisticated, pious spirit of the awakening North, personified by lisa von Blankenburg, daughter of a Harzland Graf.

THE THREE KNAVES

By EDEN PHILLPOTTS Cloth cover, yd. net.

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worth. There is no pause in its sustained excitement Mr. Phillpotts

knows how to build and move a thrilling detective story as well, it seems, as any other kind of tale."

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THE GIANT FISHER

By Mrs. HUBERT BARCLAY Cloth cover, "jd. net.

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NORTHERN WHIG. "A love story of an unusual kind, marked by fresh- ness and charm of style."

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