A New Novel by Miss Montague

At least two of the spring books which the Atlantic Monthly Press is on the point of publishing bear a close relation to the Atlantic Monthly itself. In the pages of the magazine many of its readers have become familiar with The Quare Women of Miss Lucy Furman and with the pages of John D. Long’s diary which are to form a part of America of Yesterday, edited by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. There is in preparation still another book of which nothing has yet been said.

This is Deep Channel, a novel by Miss Margaret Prescott Montague. If the Atlantic had not given up the practice of printing works of fiction in more than a fewmonthly installments, tills story might well have appeared in the pages of the magazine with which so much of Miss Montague s most characteristic work, in fiction and in poetry, has been identified. She is, indeed, one of those to whom the term, ‘an Atlantic author,’ may be applied with entire fitness. It is one of the satisfactions connected with the expanding activities of the Atlantic office that we are no longer obliged to advise our friends who produce fiction of the notable order represented by this novel of Miss Montague’s to take their wares to other markets. Our book-publishing apparatus has proved itself adequate to the extension of our list in other respects than in the number of the titles it contains. By every token both of origin and of character, Miss Montague’s novel is obviously an ‘Atlantic book.’

The publication date is still unfixed, and it would be premature at this time to speak of the novel in detail. When it appears, it will be found to embody the power and pathos of which Miss Montague has already shown herself capable, but ripened by the experiences and sympathies of recent years.