By MAURICE HEWLETT. Colored frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones. 12mo.
$1.35 net.
A "Hewlett" that you and every one else will enjoy! It combines the rich
romance of his earliest work with the humor, freshness and gentle satire
of his more recent.
The whimsical, delightful novelist has dipped his pen in the inkhorn of
modern matrimonial difficulties and brings it out dripping with amiable
humor, delicious but fantastic conjecture. Helen of Troy lives again in
the Twentieth Century, but now of Austria; beautiful, bewitching,
love-compelling, and with it all married to a ferocious German who has
drained the cup and is now squeezing the dregs of all that life has to
offer. He has locomotor ataxia but that does not prevent his Neitschean
will from dominating all about him, nor does it prevent Maurice Hewlett
from making him one of the most interesting and portentous characters
portrayed by the hand of an Englishman in many a day. Four brothers fall
in love with the fair lady,--there are amazing but happy consequences.
The author has treated an involved story in a delightful, naive and
refreshing manner.