surrounding Lady Harman, and in the dramatic incidents which compose
the years of her existence which are described by Mr. Wells, there
is a novel which is significant in its interpretation of the trend
of affairs today, and fascinatingly interesting as fiction. It is
Mr. Wells at his best.



The Rise of Jennie Cushing

By MARY S. WATTS, Author of "Nathan Burke," "Van Cleve," etc.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.

In _Nathan Burke_ Mrs. Watts fold with great power the story of a
man. In this, her new book, she does much the same thing for a
woman. Jennie Cushing is an exceedingly interesting character,
perhaps the most interesting of any that Mrs. Watts has yet given
us. The novel is her life and little else, but that is a life
filled with a variety of experiences and touching closely many
different strata of humankind. Throughout it all, from the days
when as a thirteen-year-old, homeless, friendless waif. Jennie is
sent to a reformatory, to the days when her beauty is the
inspiration of a successful painter, there is in the narrative an
appeal to the emotions, to the sympathy, to the affections, that
cannot be gainsaid.