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Show "TJI3 GSAY CLOAIL" Mr.'McGrath has left the land of visionary vi-sionary kingdoms, which he exploited so admirably In "The Puppet Crown." and has woven his recent romance around people bearing a direct relationship relation-ship to a tangible episode in history, the career or Cardinal Mazarln as virtual ruler of France and the settlement of New Prance. lie has assembled an entertaining en-tertaining company of gallants,., poets, rogues, priests, Indians and faithful valets and a group of fascinating women, wo-men, and has wound about them the meshes of an Intrigue which seems Inextricable. In-extricable. The scene is laid partly In the Old World and partly In the new, affording the contrasts which are just now In demand in fiction. The reader is held by the unfolding of the theme, while he is pleased by the fluency and grace of the author's styles "The .Gray Cloak" will probably prove one of the summer's most striking novels. The Bobbs-MerrlU company publishes the work. |