Turn the magazine and read the preliminary newspaper advertisement of our Spring Leader, a novel so good that it cannot be overpraised or oversold. We shall publish SAINT TERESA in March at $2.00, and back it with an advertising campaign proportionate to its merits and to the importance of an author of whose three previous novels nearly half a million copies have been sold. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

SAINT TERESA

By Henry Sydnor Harrison

Author of "Queed," "V. V.'s Eyes"
"Angela's Business"

A story of present day America
so fine, so sincere, so compel-
ling that every reader must fall
beneath its spell as it marches
to its magnificent climax.

$2.00 at all bookstores

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

February 10

AN ORDEAL
OF HONOR

By ANTHONY PRYDE

Author of "Marqueray's Duel," "Jenny Essenden," "Nightfall." Within the brief space of two years Mr. Anthony Pryde has won an enviable place among writers of romantic fiction, and a popularity among fiction readers which is constantly growing. A writer with a marked facility in the manipulation of plots, he is also the possessor of a gift for creating characters who stand out in sharply defined reality from their background and from one another and who speak in a brilliant, audacious fashion. His novels are swiftly moving, revolving about situations which are often bold and startling. His scene is almost invariably the political and fashionable England of today and his people the urbane, sophisticated men and women who inhabit it.

The qualities which have made Mr. Pryde's other books popular are present in ample measure in An Ordeal of Honor. The story of a man accused of a crime in which he has no part, of misfortune heroically borne, and of a love which endures in spite of doubt and even degradation, it is a book which is unfailingly dramatic and which will assure the author of a still warmer place in the esteem of the many readers whom his other novels have won for him.

Ready Now

ETHEL OPENS
THE DOOR

By DAVID FOX

Author of "The Man Who Convicted Himself”

A mystery story with a really original cast
of characters: The Shadowers, Inc., re-
tired criminals whose activities in the sup-
pression of crime make sometimes hilarious
and sometimes thrilling reading. Anony-
mous letters, a secret room in a New
York hotel, an old recluse and a number
of unsuspected enemies are the materials
of which a particularly entertaining story
is made.
$1.90 net

February 10

THE ROMANCE

of a GREAT STORE

$2 net.

By EDWARD HUNGERFORD

Author of "The Personality of American Cities," "The Modern Railroad, etc.

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An account of the growth and development of
of our great modern mercantile establish-
ments: R. H. Macy & Company. Mr. Hunger-
ford presents the salient facts in the history of
Macy's department store, and discusses in detail
the operating methods of the organization: how
merchandise is bought; the methods of retailing;
the training of employees; the operation of the
delivery system; and the numberless practices
adopted to insure that the public will receive
the maximum of service. A final section of the
book discusses the plans which have been made
for the development of the establishment.

Although it is addressed primarily to the stu-
dent of modern retailing methods Mr. Hunger-
ford has presented his subject so lucidly and
with such an emphasis upon the "human side"
of the organization that it possesses a decided
interest for the general reader also.
With eight illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey.
$2.50 net

Robert M. McBride & Company, Publishers, New York

to be published March 15th, Price $2.00

KIMONO

BY
JOHN
PARIS

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KIMONO

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by John Paris

"What Interests People?" =

Lord Northcliffe says in a recent article in The American
Magazine that "among the two or three books people
are most interested in just now on the other side is
KIMONO, a novel of Anglo-Saxon and Japanese life."

Reading the reviews from the English press makes one cer-
tain that the book will start a furore over here. (We
were going to quote some of the fine comments of the
foreign press, but refer you to the end papers of the novel
itself, where about fifteen or so are given.)

KIMONO is the story of the marriage of an Englishman
to a Japanese girl, an orphan of great wealth, who
has been brought up in Europe; of how they go to Japan
against the advice of their friends and for a time are
parted, half by the efforts of her Japanese relatives, and
half by his discovery that her money is derived from
property in the Yoshiwara (Japan's official houses of
prostitution).

But more, Japan, the mysterious, the inscrutable, its soul
and spirit, are revealed never to be forgotten.

The author of KIMONO is a well-known English diplomat,
who was attached for five years to the British Legation
in Japan (John Paris is a pseudonym).

KIMONO is destined to be a great seller without a doubt
from the hour the book is out on your counters (several
American publishers have made flattering offers for our
rights). The more you have on hand, of course- -!

BONI & LIVERIGHT

105 WEST 40th STREET

NEW YORK

ΚΙΜΟΝΟ

by John

Paris