Kipling, her work is marked by an even subtler appreciation of the
Oriental standpoint--both ethical and religious--a more exhaustive
acquaintance with native life in its domestic and indoor aspects, and a
deeper sense of the moral responsibilities attaching to our rule in the
East. The book is profoundly interesting from beginning to end.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A volume of charming stories and of stories
possessing something more than mere charm. Stories made rich with beauty
and colour, strong with the strength of truth, and pathetic with the
intimate pathos which grows only from the heart. All the mystery and the
frankness, the simplicity and the complexity of Indian life are here in
a glowing setting of brilliant Oriental hues. A book to read and a book
to buy. A book which no one but Mrs. Steel could have given us, a book
which all persons of leisure should read, and for which all persons of
taste will be grateful.’
FROM THE FIVE RIVERS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Mrs. Steel has evidently been brought into close contact
with the domestic life of all classes, Hindu and Mahommedan, in city and
village, and has steeped herself in their customs and superstitions....
Mrs. Steel’s book is of exceptional merit and freshness.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘They possess this great merit, that they reflect the
habits, modes of life, and ideas of the middle and lower classes of the
population of Northern India better than do systematic and more
pretentious works.’
=The Globe.=--‘She puts before us the natives of our Empire in the East as
they live and move and speak, with their pitiful superstitions, their
strange fancies, their melancholy ignorance of what poses with us for
knowledge and civilisation, their doubt of the new ways, the new laws,
the new people, “Shah Sujah’s Mouse,” the gem of the collection--a
touching tale of unreasoning fidelity towards an English “Sinny Baba” is
a tiny bit of perfect writing.’
THE POTTER’S THUMB
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Globe.=--‘This is a brilliant story--a story that fascinates,
tingling with life, steeped in sympathy with all that is best and
saddest.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘The impression left upon one after reading
_The Potter’s Thumb_ is that a new literary artist, of very great and
unusual gifts, has arisen.... In short, Mrs. Steel must be congratulated
upon having achieved a very genuine and amply deserved success.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘It is a capital story, full of variety and movement,
which brings with great vividness before the reader one of the phases of
Anglo-Indian life. Mrs. Steel writes forcibly and sympathetically, and
much of the charm of the picture which she draws lies in the force with
which she brings out the contrast between the Asiatic and European
world. _The Potter’s Thumb_ is very good reading, with its mingling of
the tragedy and comedy of life. Its evil woman _par excellence_ ... is a
finished study.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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RED ROWANS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘Judge it by what canons of criticism you will the
book is a work of art.... The story is simple enough, but it is as
lifelike as anything in modern fiction. The people speak and act as
people do act and speak. There is not a false note throughout. Mrs.
Steel draws children as none but a master-hand can draw.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘Far and away above the average of novels, and
one of those books which no reader should miss.’
=The Daily News.=--‘The book is written with distinction. It is moving,
picturesque, the character drawing is sensitive and strong.’
=Black and White.=--‘It reveals keen sympathy with nature and clever
portraiture, and it possesses many passages both humorous and pathetic.’
THE FLOWER OF FORGIVENESS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘Nothing here ought to be neglected, for there is in most
places something profitable for not too obtrusive exhortation, and
almost everywhere something for enjoyment.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=--‘A clever book which should tend to widen Mrs.
Steel’s circle among the reading public.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘They have a rich imaginative colour always.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘Much sympathy with humanity however dark the
skin, and a delicate touch in narrative, raise Mrs. F. A. Steel’s Indian
Stories into a high rank. There is a pathos in them not common among
Anglo-Indian story-tellers.’
MISS STUART’S LEGACY
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=--‘It throbs with the vigour of real creative
power.’
=The Spectator.=--‘It is remarkably clever; it is written in a style which
has ease, dignity, grace, and quick responsiveness to the demands of the
theme; it has passages of arresting power and fine reticent pathos; and
it displays a quick eye for character and a power of depicting it with
both force and subtlety.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A most faithful, vivid impression of Indian
life.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘A singularly powerful and fascinating story.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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BOWERY TALES
(George’s Mother, and Maggie.)
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=--‘Mr. Crane never wrote anything more vivid than the
story in which Maggie takes the heroine’s part. It is as admirable in
its own field as _The Red Badge of Courage_ in another.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Stephen Crane knew the Bowery very well,
and in these two stories its characteristics come out with the realism
of Mr. Arthur Morrison’s studies of the East End. Both are grim and
powerful sketches.’
PICTURES OF WAR
(The Red Badge of Courage, and The Little Regiment.)
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Truth.=--‘The pictures themselves are certainly wonderful.... So fine a
book as Mr. Stephen Crane’s _Pictures of War_ is not to be judged
pedantically.’
=The Daily Graphic.=--’ ... A second reading leaves one with no whit
diminished opinion of their extraordinary power. Stories they are not
really, but as vivid war pictures they have scarcely been equalled....
One cannot recall any book which conveys to the outsider more clearly
what war means to the fighters than this collection of brilliant
pictures.’
THE OPEN BOAT
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=--’ ... The most artistic thing Mr. Crane has yet
accomplished.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Each tale is the concise, clear, vivid record
of one sensational impression. Facts, epithets, or colours are given to
the reader with a rigorousness of selection, an artfulness of restraint,
that achieves an absolute clearness in the resulting imaginative vision.
Mr. Crane has a personal touch of artistry that is refreshing.’
ACTIVE SERVICE
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘The characters are admirably sketched and sustained.
There is tenderness; there is brilliancy; there is real insight into the
minds and ways of women and of men.’
=The Spectator.=--‘Mr. Crane’s plot is ingenious and entertaining, and the
characterisation full of those unexpected strokes in which he excels.’
=The Academy.=--‘The book is full of those feats of description for which
the author is famous. Mr. Crane can handle the epithet with surprising,
almost miraculous dexterity. _Active Service_ quite deserves to be
called a remarkable book.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE THIRD VIOLET
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘We have never come across a book that brought certain
sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as does _The
Third Violet_, which introduces us to a farming family, to the boarders
at a summer hotel, and to the young artists of New York. The picture is
an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader,
so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American
cousins. _The Third Violet_ incidentally contains the best dog we have
come across in modern fiction. Mr. Crane’s dialogue is excellent, and it
is dialogue of a type for which neither _The Red Badge of Courage_ nor
his later books had prepared us.’
AFRICAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT
BY A. J. DAWSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘His stories have the special attraction of
stories of a country by a man who has knowledge of it and is under its
fascination; and are good stories into the bargain. He has a pretty
humour, and the gift of telling a story well, and special knowledge to
work upon; the result is an entertaining book.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘The stories are all invented and written with that glow
of imagination which seems to come of Eastern sunshine.... They are
besides novel and readable in no ordinary degree, and they make a book
which will not fail to interest every one who takes it up.’
THE STORY OF RONALD KESTREL
BY A. J. DAWSON
In One Volume, price 6s.
=The Athenæum.=--‘The sketches of life and scenery in Morocco and in New
South Wales are attractive, the literary composition keeps a good level
throughout. Mr. Dawson is a writer of ability who has seen men and
things, and should go far.’
JOSEPH KHASSAN: HALF-CASTE
BY A. J. DAWSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘Since Mr. Kipling’s famous ballad, which emphasised the
underlying unity of martial spirit common to East and West, we have read
no more striking or suggestive study of Oriental and Occidental modes of
thought than this work, which deals with their fundamental differences.
The story is laid at first and last in Morocco, which the author knows
better than most Englishmen. Mr. Dawson’s style is vivid and not without
distinction. His work is virile as well as good reading: he can command
both humour and pathos.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is strong, undeniably strong; a well-written
book with many admirable character-studies. The book is undoubtedly a
powerful one.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE LION AND THE UNICORN
BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Eight short stories, each of them written with
a brilliance worthy of the author of _Soldiers of Fortune_, and each a
perfect piece of workmanship. Every one of them has a striking and
original idea, clothed in the words and picturesque details of a man who
knows the world. They are genuine literature. Each is intensely fresh
and distinct, ingenious in conception, and with a meaning compounded of
genuine stuff. There is something in all of the stories, as well as
immense cleverness in bringing it out.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Stories of real excellence, distinctive and
interesting from every point of view.’
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
_In One Volume, price 6s. Illustrated._
=The Athenæum.=--‘The adventures and exciting incidents in the book are
admirable; the whole story of the revolution is most brilliantly told.
This is really a great tale of adventure.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘We turn the pages quickly, carried on by a
swiftly moving story, and many a brilliant passage: and when we put the
book down, our impression is that few works of this season are to be
named with it for the many qualities which make a successful novel. We
congratulate Mr. Harding Davis upon a very clever piece of work.’
THE NIGGER OF THE ‘NARCISSUS’
BY JOSEPH CONRAD
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=A. T. Quiller-Couch in Pall Mall Magazine.=--‘Mr. Conrad’s is a
thoroughly good tale. He has something of Mr. Crane’s insistence; he
grips a situation, an incident, much as Mr. Browning’s Italian wished to
grasp Metternich; he squeezes emotion and colour out of it to the last
drop; he is ferociously vivid; he knows the life he is writing about,
and he knows his seamen too. And, by consequence, the crew of the
_Narcissus_ are the most plausibly life-like set of rascals that ever
sailed through the pages of fiction.’
THE INHERITORS
BY JOSEPH CONRAD AND E. M. HUEFFER
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘This is a remarkable piece of work, possessing
qualifications which before now have made a work of fiction the
sensation of its year. Its craftsmanship is such as one has learnt to
expect in a book bearing Mr. Conrad’s name.... Amazing intricacy,
exquisite keenness of style, and a large, fantastic daring in scheme. An
extravaganza _The Inheritors_ may certainly be called, but more ability
and artistry has gone to the making of it than may be found in
four-fifths of the serious fiction of the year.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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JACK RAYMOND
BY E. L. VOYNICH
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘This is a remarkable book. Mrs. Voynich has
essayed no less than to analyse a boy’s character as warped even to the
edge of permanent injury by the systematic sternness--aggravated on
occasion into fiendish brutality--of his guardian. We know nothing in
recent fiction comparable with the grim scene in which the boy forces
his uncle to listen to the maledictions of the Commination Service
directed against himself. _Jack Raymond_ is the strongest novel that the
present season has produced, and it will add to the reputation its
author won by _The Gadfly_.’
THE GADFLY
BY E. L. VOYNICH
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘A remarkable story, which readers who prefer flesh and
blood and human emotions to sawdust and adventure should consider as
something of a godsend. It is more deeply interesting and rich in
promise than ninety-nine out of every hundred novels.’
=The World.=--‘The strength and originality of the story are
indisputable.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘A very strikingly original romance which will
hold the attention of all who read it, and establish the author’s
reputation at once for first-rate dramatic ability and power of
expression.’
VOYSEY
BY R. O. PROWSE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Standard.=--‘The analytical power displayed makes this book a
remarkable one, and the drawing of the chief figures is almost
startlingly good.’
=The Daily News.=--‘A novel of conspicuous ability.’
FROM A SWEDISH HOMESTEAD
BY SELMA LAGERLOF
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘The very strangeness of her genius is one of its chief
charms. Her domain lies on the outskirts of fairyland, and there is an
other-worldliness about her most real and convincing characters.’
=The Spectator.=--‘We are glad to welcome in this delightful volume
evidence of the unabated vitality of that vein of fantastic invention
which ran purest in the tales of Andersen. The influence of Gœthe’s
_Wilhelm Meister_ is obvious in the longest and most beautiful story of
the collection. But when all deductions are made on the score of
indebtedness, the originality of plot and treatment remain unquestioned.
The story is rendered touching and convincing by the ingenious charm and
sincerity of the narrator.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH
BY I. ZANGWILL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘Contains cleverness of a very varied kind--traits of
fine imagination, of high spiritual feeling, keen observation, and a
singular sense of discrimination in character and dialogue.’
=The Outlook.=--‘His story and the figures which people its pages are of a
vivid and absorbing interest, instinct with life, and on every page some
witty and memorable phrase, or trenchant thought, or vivid picture.’
THEY THAT WALK IN DARKNESS
BY I. ZANGWILL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘No reader, who is not blinded by prejudice, will rise
from the perusal of this engrossing volume without an enhanced sense of
compassion for, and admiration of, the singular race of whose traits Mr.
Zangwill is, perhaps, the most gifted interpreter.’
=The Standard.=--‘These stories are of singular merit. They are, mostly,
of a tragic order; but this does not by any means keep out a subtle
humour; they possess also a tenderness ... and a power that is kept in
great restraint and is all the more telling in consequence.’
DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO
BY I. ZANGWILL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=W. E. Henley in ‘The Outlook.’=--‘A brave, eloquent, absorbing, and, on
the whole, persuasive book.... I find them all vastly agreeable reading,
and I take pleasure in recognising them all for the work of a man who
loves his race, and for his race’s sake would like to make
literature.... Here, I take it--here, so it seems to me--is that rarest
of rare things, _a book_.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It is hard to describe this book, for we can
think of no exact parallel to it. In form, perhaps, it comes nearest to
some of Walter Pater’s work. For each of the fifteen chapters contains a
criticism of thought under the similitude of an “Imaginary Portrait.”
... We have a vision of the years presented to us in typical souls.’
THE MASTER
BY I. ZANGWILL
With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Queen.=--‘It is impossible to deny the greatness of a book like _The
Master_, a veritable human document, in which the characters do exactly
as they would in life.... I venture to say that Matt himself is one of
the most striking and original characters in our fiction, and I have not
the least doubt that _The Master_ will always be reckoned one of our
classics.’
=The Literary World.=--‘In _The Master_, Mr. Zangwill has eclipsed all his
previous work. This strong and striking story is genuinely powerful in
its tragedy, and picturesque in its completeness.... The work strikes a
truly tragic chord, which leaves a deep impression upon the mind.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO
BY I. ZANGWILL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘From whatever point of view we regard it, it is a
remarkable book.’
=The Guardian.=--‘A novel such as only our own day could produce. A
masterly study of a complicated psychological problem in which every
factor is handled with such astonishing dexterity and intelligence that
again and again we are tempted to think a really great book has come
into our hands.’
=Black and White.=--‘A moving panorama of Jewish life, full of truth, full
of sympathy, vivid in the setting forth, and occasionally most
brilliant. Such a book as this has the germs of a dozen novels. A book
to read, to keep, to ponder over, to remember.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘The best Jewish novel ever written.’
THE KING OF SCHNORRERS
BY I. ZANGWILL
With over Ninety Illustrations by PHIL MAY and Others.
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=--‘Mr. Zangwill has created a new figure in fiction,
and a new type of humour. The entire series of adventures is a
triumphant progress.... Humour of a rich and active character pervades
the delightful history of Manasseh. Mr. Zangwill’s book is altogether
very good reading. It is also very cleverly illustrated by Phil May and
other artists.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It is a beautiful story. _The King of Schnorrers_
is that great rarity--an entirely new thing, that is as good as it is
new.’
THE CELIBATES’ CLUB
BY I. ZANGWILL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Mr. Zangwill’s _Bachelors’ Club_ and _Old
Maids’ Club_ have separately had such a success--as their sparkling
humour, gay characterisation, and irresistible punning richly
deserved--that it is no surprise to find Mr. Heinemann now issuing them
together in one volume. Readers who have not purchased the separate
volumes will be glad to add this joint publication to their bookshelves.
Others, who have failed to read either, until they foolishly imagined
that it was too late, have now the best excuse for combining the
pleasures of two.’
THE PREMIER AND THE PAINTER
BY I. ZANGWILL AND LOUIS COWEN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=--‘The story is described as a “fantastic romance,”
and, indeed, fantasy reigns supreme from the first to the last of its
pages. It relates the history of our time with humour and well-aimed
sarcasm. All the most prominent characters of the day, whether political
or otherwise, come in for notice. The identity of the leading
politicians is but thinly veiled, while many celebrities appear in
_propriâ personâ_.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
* * * * *
THE WORLD’S MERCY
BY MAXWELL GRAY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Speaker.=--‘Those who most admired _The Silence of Dean Maitland_
will find much to hold their attention, and to make them think in _The
World’s Mercy_.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘The qualities of her pen make all of Maxwell
Gray’s work interesting, and the charm of her writing is unalterable. If
_The World’s Mercy_ is painful, it is undeniably forcible and dramatic,
and it holds the reader from start to finish.’
THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN TREASURE
BY MAXWELL GRAY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Chronicle.=--‘There is a strong and pervading charm in this new novel
by Maxwell Gray.... It is full of tragedy and irony, though irony is not
the dominant note.’
=The Times.=--‘Its buoyant humour and lively character-drawing will be
found very enjoyable.’
=The Daily Mail.=--‘The book becomes positively great, fathoming a depth
of human pathos which has not been equalled in any novel we have read
for years past.... _The House of Hidden Treasure_ is not a novel to be
borrowed; it is a book to be bought and read, and read again and again.’
THE LAST SENTENCE
BY MAXWELL GRAY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Standard.=--‘_The Last Sentence_ is a remarkable story; it abounds
with dramatic situations, the interest never for a moment flags, and the
characters are well drawn and consistent.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘One of the most powerful and adroitly worked-out
plots embodied in any modern work of fiction runs through _The Last
Sentence_.... This terrible tale of retribution is told with
well-sustained force and picturesqueness, and abounds in light as well
as shade.’
SWEETHEARTS AND FRIENDS
BY MAXWELL GRAY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
LONDON; WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER
BY MAXWELL GRAY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘Brightly and pleasantly written, Maxwell Gray’s new
story will entertain all readers who can enjoy the purely sentimental in
fiction.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘The story is full of bright dialogue: it is one of the
pleasantest and healthiest novels of the season.’
HEARTS IMPORTUNATE
BY EVELYN DICKINSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Happy in title and successful in evolution, Miss
Dickinson’s novel is very welcome. We have read it with great pleasure,
due not only to the interest of the theme, but to an appreciation of the
artistic method, and the innate power of the authoress. It is vigorous,
forcible, convincing.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘An enjoyable book, and a clever one.’
THE HIDDEN MODEL
BY FRANCES HARROD
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Outlook.=--‘Intensely dramatic and moving. We have sensitive analysis
of character, sentiment, colour, agreeable pathos.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘A good story simply told and undidactic, with men and
women in it who are creatures of real flesh and blood. An artistic
coterie is described briefly and pithily, with humour and without
exaggeration.’
=The Academy.=--‘A pathetic little love idyll, touching, plaintive, and
not without a kindly and gentle fascination.’
=Literature.=--‘A remarkably original and powerful story: one of the most
interesting and original books of the year.’
=The Sunday Special.=--‘Thrilling from cover to cover.’
SAWDUST
BY DOROTHEA GERARD
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘Once again Dorothea Gerard has shown considerable
ability in the delineation of diverse characters--ability as evident in
the minor as in the chief persons; and, what is more, she gets her
effects without any undue labouring of points as to the goodness or
badness of her people.’