The Mating of Lydia.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 31, 28 February 1913, Page 3

The Mating of Lydia.

A NOTABLE NOVEL BY AN AUSTRALIAN AUTHORESS. 1 It will be news to many of our readers to learn that Mrs Humphry Ward, the noted authoress, ! is an Australian by birth. She 1 was born in Hobart, Tasmania, . in 1851. and was the eldest I daughter of Thomas Arnold, son | of the famous Doctor Arnold of Rugby. Mrs Humphry Ward's newest l . novel is entitled ** The Mating of \ i Lydia," and has begun to run serially in tli Feb uary issu ■of | " Everylady’s Journal" now boil fore us. It is fitting that this I notable story by an Australian ’ i authoress should appear ox- ; Allusively in sn popular an Aus- , tralian woman's magazine as | " Everylady's Journal.” \ In beautiful Cumberland v ' | that land of ballad and ro'J : m ine —Mr- Ward lias created [ I Lydia Lenfold, the glorious heroine of "The Mating of II iof Lydia.” Living in the monn- ; tains among the beauties of , lof Nature she grows into young | womanhood possessed of the loveliness that lias surrounded j liar. Toon F.ivorsham enters ! a fine, m inly man and a charm- " ! love st >ry develop s. Our readers , i will certainly iova Lydia and a 1 admire Faveriham. | ' The February issue of" Everyy j ladies Journal " is rich in many j features be -i h-s Mrs. Ward's n ! new s.-rial. Hies? caver scores ! 7 ;of fashion d'-igns, fiv 1 five I patt ms, short stories, many I illustrated articles, and some • splendid domestic and practio il - ies,such os. “ Wliy 1 tnarri id a .. Wealthy J lusband." "Fa ocyw.>rk I tor summer days.” “Common 1 Sense About t,he Baby. "New ’■ ; Ways in Beauty." etc. i While confidently roc uninendj ing tliis issue id Evorylady s I Journal to women a - a line ' r si■ penn’orth, we beg to notify V | , )ur readers that names of sub--1 ' 1 ! seribers desirous of obtaining the iournal ai ('being taken now ~t the l '; Huntly Bo A Shop.