A Novel by JOHN HELSTON, Author of "Aphrodite," etc.
With frontispiece in colors. Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net.
Probably no author to-day has written more powerfully or frankly on
the conventions of modern society than John Helston, who, however, has
hitherto confined himself to the medium of verse. In this novel, the
theme of which occasionally touches upon the same problems--problems
involving love, freedom of expression, the right to live one's life in
one's own way--he is revealed to be no less a master of the prose
form than of the poetical. While the book is one for mature minds,
the skill with which delicate situations are handled and the reserve
everywhere exhibited remove it from possible criticism even by the
most exacting. The title, it should be explained, refers to a spirited
race horse with the fortunes of which the lives of two of the leading
characters are bound up.