lower Carpathians, is the scene of Miss Gerald’s book. Remote enough,
geographically; but the writer has not seen her Galician peasants as
foreigners, nor has she made them other than entirely human. Human, too,
are the scheming Jews, the Polish Counts and Countesses, the German
millionaire. The story is simple and eminently natural.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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GLORIA MUNDI
BY HAROLD FREDERIC
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘Mr. Harold Frederic has here achieved a triumph
of characterisation rare indeed in fiction, even in such fiction as is
given us by our greatest. _Gloria Mundi_ is a work of art; and one
cannot read a dozen of its pages without feeling that the artist was an
informed, large-minded, tolerant man of the world.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘It is packed with interesting thought as well
as clear-cut individual and living character, and is certainly one of
the few striking serious novels, apart from adventure and romance, which
have been produced this year.’
ILLUMINATION
BY HAROLD FREDERIC
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘There is something more than the mere touch of the
vanished hand that wrote _The Scarlet Letter_ in _Illumination_, which
is the best novel Mr. Harold Frederic has produced, and, indeed, places
him very near if not quite at the head of the newest school of American
fiction.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘It is a long time since a book of such
genuine importance has appeared. It will not only afford novel-readers
food for discussion during the coming season, but it will eventually
fill a recognised place in English fiction.’
THE MARKET-PLACE
BY HAROLD FREDERIC
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Harold Frederic stood head and shoulders above the ordinary
run of novelists. _The Market-Place_ seizes the imagination and holds
the reader’s interest, and it is suggestive and stimulating to thought.’
=The Bookman.=--‘Incomparably the best novel of the year. It is a ruthless
exposure, a merciless satire. Both as satire and romance it is splendid
reading. As a romance of the “City” it has no equal in modern fiction.’
THE LAKE OF WINE
BY BERNARD CAPES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=W. E. Henley in ‘The Outlook.’=--‘Mr. Capes’s devotion to style does him
yeoman service all through this excellent romance.... I have read no
book for long which contented me as this book. This story--excellently
invented and excellently done--is one no lover of romance can afford to
leave unread.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘The love-motif is of the quaintest and
daintiest; the clash of arms is Stevensonian.... There is a vein of
mystery running through the book, and greatly enhancing its interest.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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VIA LUCIS
BY KASSANDRA VIVARIA
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Perhaps never before has there been related with
such detail, such convincing honesty, and such pitiless
clearsightedness, the tale of misery and torturing perplexity, through
which a young and ardent seeker after truth can struggle. It is all so
strongly drawn. The book is simply and quietly written, and gains in
force from its clear, direct style. Every page, every descriptive line
bears the stamp of truth.’
=The Morning Post.=--‘_Via Lucis_ is but one more exercise, and by no
means the least admirable, on that great and inexhaustible theme which
has inspired countless artists and poets and novelists--the conflict
between the aspirations of the soul for rest in religion and of the
heart for human love and the warfare of the world.’
THE OPEN QUESTION
BY ELIZABETH ROBINS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘This is an extraordinarily fine novel.... We
have not, for many years, come across a serious novel of modern life
which has more powerfully impressed our imagination, or created such an
instant conviction of the genius of its writer.... We express our own
decided opinion that it is a book which, setting itself a profound human
problem, treats it in a manner worthy of the profoundest thinkers of the
time, with a literary art and a fulness of the knowledge of life which
stamp a master novelist.... It is not meat for little people or for
fools; but for those who care for English fiction as a vehicle of the
constructive intellect, building up types of living humanity for our
study, it will be a new revelation of strength, and strange, serious
beauty.’
BELOW THE SALT
BY ELIZABETH ROBINS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘All cleverly told, vivacious, life-like,
observant sketches. Were we to award the palm where all are meritorious,
it should be to the delightful triplet entitled “The Portman Memoirs.”
These three sketches are positively exhilarating. We can sincerely
recommend them as certain cures for the vapours, the spleen, or the
“blues.”’
THE STORY OF EDEN
BY DOLF WYLLARDE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘The story is an outstanding one. There are passages of
thought and colour which gladden, and characters which interest, as the
living only do. A light wit beams through the dialogue. On the whole,
bravo! Dolf Wyllarde.’
=The Standard.=--‘A remarkable book, fresh and courageous. The writer has
a sense of things as they are, and describes them simply and vividly.
The book is well written, and the pictures of social life in Wynberg are
excellent.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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ST. IVES
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Neither Stevenson himself nor any one else has given us a
better example of a dashing story, full of life and colour and interest.
St. Ives is both an entirely delightful personage and a narrator with an
enthralling style--a character who will be treasured up in the memory
along with David Balfour and Alan Breck, even with D’Artagnan and the
Musketeers.’
THE EBB-TIDE
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
AND
LLOYD OSBOURNE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘We are swept along without a pause on the current
of the animated and vigorous narrative. Each incident and adventure is
told with that incomparable keenness of vision which is Mr. Stevenson’s
greatest charm as a story-teller.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is brilliantly invented, and it is not less
brilliantly told. There is not a dull sentence in the whole run of it.
And the style is fresh, alert, full of surprises--in fact, is very good
latter-day Stevenson indeed.’
THE QUEEN VERSUS BILLY
BY LLOYD OSBOURNE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Of the nine stories in this volume, not one
falls below a notably high level, while three or four of them at least
attain what short stories not often do, the certainty that they will be
re-read, and vividly remembered between re-readings. Mr. Osbourne writes
often with a delicious rollick of humour, sometimes with a pathos from
which tears are not far remote, and always with the buoyancy and
crispness without which the short story is naught, and with which it can
be so much.’
=The Outlook.=--‘These stories are admirable. They are positive good
things, wanting not for strength, pathos, humour, observation.’
CHINATOWN STORIES
BY C. B. FERNALD
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘We feel that Mr. Fernald has described the Chinese
character with extraordinary accuracy. His range is considerable; he
begins this volume, for example, with an idyllic story of an adorable
Chinese infant.... This is sheer good-humour, and prettiness and colour.
And at the end of the book is one of the grimmest and ablest yarns of
Chinese piracy and high sea villainy that any one has written, Stevenson
not excluded. In each of these we see the hand of a very capable
literary artist. It is a fascinating book.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE ASSASSINS
BY NEVILL M. MEAKIN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘He brings home to his readers the spirit of awe--of
allurement and terror--which his chosen place and period inspire. The
opening chapters breathe the true spirit of romance. The Orient blazes
in Mr. Meakin’s descriptions. His pen is dipped in the period he
portrays. It is iridescent with the mirage of the East; glowing now with
the life and clash and din of the Ismalians, and again with the
victories of Saladin: powerful in its pictures of human passion, human
ambition, and the tragedy of fate.’
=The Standard.=--‘_The Assassins_ attracts us on its first page by the
excellence of its style, and the interest is kept up to the end.’
A DAUGHTER OF THE VELDT
BY BASIL MARNAN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=--‘A strong, clever, and striking book. Mr. Basil
Marnan has drawn some vivid and wholly new pictures. The book has scenes
of dramatic power, told with simple directness.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It has interested us profoundly, and has given us
good and sufficient reason to hope that another novel from the same hand
and with the same _mise-en-scène_, may before very long come our way.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘This is a South African novel which should arrest
attention. It is of engrossing interest. Mr. Marnan has dramatic power,
a vivid descriptive talent, and a rich and expressive style. He has
written a remarkable book.’
ON THE EDGE OF THE EMPIRE
BY EDGAR JEPSON AND CAPTAIN D. BEAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘Of the wealth and interest and variety of the matter
there can be no question. It might be called the Book of the Sepoy, for
no writer, not even Mr. Kipling himself, has given us a deeper insight
into the character of the Indian fighting man, or brought home to us
more vividly the composite nature of our native regiments.’
=The Daily News.=--‘The picturesque native soldier has never been more
fully described or more realistically painted than in the present
volume. The book is packed full of good stuff, and deserves to be widely
read.’
THE EAGLE’S HEART
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘Mr. Garland’s work is always fresh and vigorous, and
this story is full of his characteristic energy. He makes one share with
delight in the irresistible fascination of wild life in the Far West.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘If Mr. Hamlin Garland had never written
anything else, _The Eagle’s Heart_ would suffice to win him a
reputation. It is a fine book, instinct with humanity, quivering with
strength, and in every fiber of it alive.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE BETH BOOK
BY SARAH GRAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Punch.=--‘The heroine of _The Beth Book_ is one of Sarah Grand’s most
fascinating creations. With such realistic art is her life set forth
that, for a while, the reader will probably be under the impression that
he has before him the actual story of a wayward genius compiled from her
genuine diary. The story is absorbing; the truth to nature in the
characters, whether virtuous, ordinary, or vicious, every reader with
some experience will recognise.’
=The Globe.=--‘It is quite safe to prophesy that those who peruse _The
Beth Book_ will linger delightedly over one of the freshest and deepest
studies of child character ever given to the world, and hereafter will
find it an ever present factor in their literary recollections and
impressions.’
THE HEAVENLY TWINS
BY SARAH GRAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘It is so full of interest, and the characters are so
eccentrically humorous yet true, that one feels inclined to pardon all
its faults, and give oneself up to unreserved enjoyment of it.... The
twins Angelica and Diavolo, young barbarians, utterly devoid of all
respect, conventionality, or decency, are among the most delightful and
amusing children in fiction.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Everybody ought to read it, for it is an
inexhaustible source of refreshing and highly stimulating
entertainment.’
=Punch.=--‘The Twins themselves are a creation: the epithet “Heavenly” for
these two mischievous little fiends is admirable.’
IDEALA
BY SARAH GRAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=--‘It is remarkable as the outcome of an earnest mind
seeking in good faith the solution of a difficult and ever present
problem.... _Ideala_ is original and somewhat daring.... The story is in
many ways delightful and thought-suggesting.’
=The Liverpool Mercury.=--‘The book is a wonderful one--an evangel for the
fair sex, and at once an inspiration and a comforting companion, to
which thoughtful womanhood will recur again and again.’
OUR MANIFOLD NATURE
BY SARAH GRAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘All these studies, male and female alike, are marked by
humour, pathos, and fidelity to life.’
=The Speaker.=--‘In _Our Manifold Nature_ Sarah Grand is seen at her best.
How good that is can only be known by those who read for themselves this
admirable little volume.’
=The Guardian.=--‘_Our Manifold Nature_ is a clever book. Sarah Grand has
the power of touching common things, which, if it fails to make them
“rise to touch the spheres,” renders them exceedingly interesting.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE LAND OF COCKAYNE
BY MATILDE SERAO
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is long since we have read, and indeed
re-read, any book of modern fiction with so absorbing an interest as
_The Land of Cockayne_, the latest book by Matilde Serao (Heinemann),
and surely as fine a piece of work as the genius of this writer has yet
accomplished. It is splendid! The character-drawing is subtle and
convincing; every touch tells. Such books as _The Land of Cockayne_ are
epoch-making, voices that cry aloud in the wilderness of modern
“literature,” and will be heard while others only cackle.’
THE BALLET DANCER
BY MATILDE SERAO
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=--‘The work of Madame Serao, a novelist with rare
gifts of observation and faculties of execution, only needs a little
more concentration on a central motive to rank among the finest of its
kind, the short novel of realism. She curiously resembles Prosper
Mérimée in her cold, impersonal treatment of her subject, without
digression or comment; the drawing of clear outlines of action; the
complete exposure of motive and inner workings of impulse; the
inevitable development of given temperaments under given circumstances.
She works with insight, with judgment, and with sincerity.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Few living writers have given us anything equal
to her splendid story _The Land of Cockayne_, and it is much to say that
those who were stirred to enthusiasm by that book will experience no
reaction upon reading the two stories here bound together. Genius is not
too big a word for her.’
THE SCOURGE-STICK
BY MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Observer.=--‘Not only is _The Scourge-Stick_ the best novel that Mrs.
Praed has yet written, but it is one that will long occupy a prominent
place in the literature of the age.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘A singularly powerful study of a woman
who fails in everything, only to rise on stepping-stones to higher
things. A succession of strong, natural, and exciting situations.’
=Black and White.=--‘A notable book which must be admitted by all to have
real power, and that most intangible quality--fascination.’
IN HASTE AND AT LEISURE
BY E. LYNN LINTON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Literary World.=--‘Whatever its exaggerations may be, _In Haste and
at Leisure_ remains a notable achievement. It has given us pleasure, and
we can recommend it with confidence.’
=The World.=--‘It is clever, and well written.’
=The Graphic.=--‘It is thoroughly interesting, and it is full of passages
that almost irresistibly tempt quotation.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE LONDONERS
BY ROBERT HICHENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Punch.=--‘Mr. Hichens calls his eccentric story “an absurdity,” and so it
is. As amusing nonsense, written in a happy-go-lucky style, it works up
to a genuine hearty-laugh-extracting scene.... _The Londoners_ is one of
the most outrageous pieces of extravagant absurdity we have come across
for many a day.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is all screamingly funny, and does great
credit to Mr. Hichens’s luxuriant imagination.’
AN IMAGINATIVE MAN
BY ROBERT HICHENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Scotsman.=--‘It is no doubt a remarkable book. If it has almost none
of the humour of its predecessor (_The Green Carnation_), it is written
with the same brilliancy of style, and the same skill is shown in the
drawing of accessories. Mr. Hichens’s three characters never fail to be
interesting. They are presented with very considerable power, while the
background of Egyptian life and scenery is drawn with a sure hand.’
THE FOLLY OF EUSTACE
BY ROBERT HICHENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The World.=--‘The little story is as fantastic and also as reasonable as
could be desired, with the occasional dash of strong sentiment, the
sudden turning on of the lights of sound knowledge of life and things
that we find in the author when he is most fanciful. The others are
weird enough and strong enough in human interest to make a name for
their writer had his name needed making.’
THE SLAVE
BY ROBERT HICHENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Speaker.=--‘It tells an extremely interesting story, and it is full
of entertaining episodes. Above all, the romance of London is treated as
it has never been since the glorious reign of Prince Florizel of
Bohemia, and, if only on that account, _The Slave_ is a book for the
busy to remember and for the leisurely to read.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘The book deserves to be widely read. Sir Reuben
Allabruth, a figure of real distinction, will take his place among the
shades of fiction.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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FLAMES
BY ROBERT HICHENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘A cunning blend of the romantic and the real, the
work of a man who can observe, who can think, who can imagine, and who
can write.... And the little thumb-nail sketches of the London streets
have the grim force of a Callot.’
=The World.=--‘An exceedingly clever and daring work ... a novel so
weirdly fascinating and engrossing that the reader easily forgives its
length. Its unflagging interest and strength, no less than its striking
originality, both of design and treatment, will certainly rank it among
the most notable novels of the season.’
NUDE SOULS
BY BENJAMIN SWIFT
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Mr. W. L. Courtney in the ‘Daily Telegraph.’=--‘Any one who is so
obviously sincere as Mr. Benjamin Swift is an author who must be
reckoned with. The story is very vivid, very poignant, very
fascinating.’
=The World.=--‘Mr. Benjamin Swift was a bold man when he called his new
story _Nude Souls_. There is a self-assertion about this title which
only success could justify. Let it be said at once that the author has
succeeded. He lays absolutely bare before the reader the souls of a
striking company of men and women. There is that about the book which
makes the reader loth to put it down, loth to come to the
end--comprehension of human nature, and relentless power of expression.’
THE REBEL
BY H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=--‘The tale is full of incidents and dramatic
situations; the result commands our unstinted admiration. It is an
extraordinarily brilliant performance. Though full of the most subtle
character-drawing, _The Rebel_ is in the main a story of adventure. And
these adventures are related with such sharpness of outline, they are so
vivid, and the style of the author is so brilliant throughout, that were
there not a character in the book worth a moment’s consideration, it
would still be well worth reading.’
SONS OF THE SWORD
BY MARGARET L. WOODS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘To write a good Napoleon novel has long seemed to be one of
those enterprises that attract authors only to overthrow and discomfit
them. Yet Mrs. Woods has come out of this ordeal unscathed, and her good
fortune places her in the front rank of living novelists. Not that it is
merely the Napoleonic scenes which make _Sons of the Sword_ a remarkable
and admirable book. There is much in it besides the vivid glimpses of
the Man of Destiny to attract and interest every kind of reader.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE AWKWARD AGE
BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Outlook.=--‘In _The Awkward Age_ Mr. Henry James has surpassed
himself.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘In delicacy of texture, his work, compared to the
work of most, we are strongly inclined to say of all other novelists, is
as a fabric woven of the finest spider’s web to common huckaback. He
suggests more by his reticences than he tells by his statements.... We
should have to search far and wide in modern fiction to find artistry
more finished, so consummate.’
THE TWO MAGICS
BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘In _The Two Magics_, the first tale, “The Turn of the
Screw,” is one of the most engrossing and terrifying ghost stories we
have ever read. The other story in the book, “Covering End,” ... is in
its way excellently told.’
=The Daily News.=--‘It is a masterpiece of artistic execution. Mr. James
has lavished upon it all the resources and subtleties of his art. The
workmanship throughout is exquisite in the precision of the touch, in
the rendering of shades of spectral representation.’
THE SPOILS OF POYNTON
BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The National Observer.=--‘A work of brilliant fancy, of delicate humour,
of gentle satire, of tragedy and comedy in appropriate admixture. We
congratulate Mr. James without reserve upon the power, the delicacy, and
the charm of a book of no common fascination.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘Delightful reading. The old felicity of
phrase and epithet, the quick, subtle flashes of insight, the fastidious
liking for the best in character and art, are as marked as ever, and
give one an intellectual pleasure for which one cannot be too grateful.’
THE OTHER HOUSE
BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily News.=--‘A melodrama wrought with the exquisiteness of a
madrigal. All the characters, however lightly sketched, are drawn with
that clearness of insight, with those minute, accurate, unforeseen
touches that tell of relentless observation.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘A masterpiece of Mr. James’s analytical genius and
finished literary style. It also shows him at his dramatic best. He has
never written anything in which insight and dramatic power are so
marvellously combined with fine and delicate literary workmanship.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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WHAT MAISIE KNEW
BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘We have read this book with amazement and delight: with
amazement at its supreme delicacy; with delight that its author retains
an unswerving allegiance to literary conscience that forbids him to
leave a slipshod phrase, or a single word out of its appointed place.
There are many writers who can write dialogue that is amusing,
convincing, real. But there is none who can reach Mr. James’s
extraordinary skill in tracing dialogue from the first vague impulse in
the mind to the definite spoken word.’
EMBARRASSMENTS
BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Mr. James’s stories are a continued protest against
superficial workmanship and slovenly style. He is an enthusiast who has
devoted himself to keeping alive the sacred fire of genuine literature;
and he has his reward in a circle of constant admirers.’
=The Daily News.=--‘Mr. Henry James is the Meissonier of literary art. In
his new volume, we find all the exquisiteness, the precision of touch,
that are his characteristic qualities. It is a curiously fascinating
volume.’
=The National Observer.=--‘The delicate art of Mr. Henry James has rarely
been seen to more advantage than in these stories.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘All four stories are delightful for admirable
workmanship, for nicety and precision of presentation, and “The Way it
Came” is beyond question a masterpiece.’