"A powerful romance of love, intrigue, and adventure in the times of
Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour, when the French colonies were making
their great struggle to retain for an ungrateful court the fairest
jewels in the colonial diadem of France. It is a most masterly picture
of the cruelties and the jealousies of a maiden, Angelique des
Melloises--fair as an angel and murderous as Medea. Mr. Kirby has shown
how false prides and ambitions stalked abroad at this time, how they
entered the heart of man to work his destruction, and particularly how
they influenced a beautiful demon in female form to continued
vengeances."--_Boston Herald_.
*The Last Word*. By ALICE MACGOWAN. Illustrated with seven portraits
of the heroine.