CAROLINA LEE.  By Lillian Bell.  With frontispiece by Dora Wheeler Keith.

Carolina Lee is the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Christian Science.  Its keynote is “Divine Love” in the understanding of the knowledge of all good things which may be obtainable.  When the tale is told, the sick healed, wrong changed to right, poverty of purse and spirit turned into riches, lovers made worthy of each other and happily united, including Carolina Lee and her affinity, it is borne upon the reader that he has been giving rapid attention to a free lecture on Christian Science; that the working out of each character is an argument for “Faith;” and that the theory is persuasively attractive.

A Christian Science novel that will bring delight to the heart of every believer in that faith.  It is a well told story, entertaining, and cleverly mingles art, humor and sentiment.

HILMA, by William Tillinghast Eldridge, with illustrations by Harrison Fisher and Martin Justice, and inlay cover.

It is a rattling good tale, written with charm, and full of remarkable happenings, dangerous doings, strange events, jealous intrigues and sweet love making.  The reader’s interest is not permitted to lag, but is taken up and carried on from incident to incident with ingenuity and contagious enthusiasm.  The story gives us the Graustark and The Prisoner of Zenda thrill, but the tale is treated with freshness, ingenuity, and enthusiasm, and the climax is both unique and satisfying.  It will hold the fiction lover close to every page.

THE MYSTERY OF THE FOUR FINGERS, by Fred M. White, with halftone illustrations by Will Grefe.

A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers.  It originally belonged to an Aztec tribe, and its location is known to one surviving descendant—­a man possessing wonderful occult power.  Should any person unlawfully discover its whereabouts, four of his fingers are mysteriously removed, and one by one returned to him.  The appearance of the final fourth betokens his swift and violent death.

Surprises, strange and startling, are concealed in every chapter of this completely engrossing detective story.  The horrible fascination of the tragedy holds one in rapt attention to the end.  And through it runs the thread of a curious love story.

MEREDITH NICHOLSON’S FASCINATING ROMANCES

Handsomely bound in cloth.  Price, 75 cents per volume, postpaid.

THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES.  With a frontispiece in colors by Howard Chandler Christy.

A novel of romance and adventure, of love and valor, of mystery and hidden treasure.  The hero is required to spend a whole year in the isolated house, which according to his grandfather’s will shall then become his.  If the terms of the will be violated the house goes to a young woman whom the will, furthermore, forbids him to marry.  Nobody can guess the secret, and the whole plot moves along with an exciting zip.