BY HENRY JAMES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘All the stories are told by a man whose heart and soul are
in his profession of literature.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘The appearance of _Terminations_ will in no way shake
the general belief in Mr. Henry James’s accomplished touch and command
of material. On the contrary, it confirms conclusions long since
foregone, and will increase the respect of his readers.... With such
passages of trenchant wit and sparkling observation, surely in his best
manner, Mr. James ought to be as satisfied as his readers cannot fail to
be.’
SOME WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN
BY MAARTEN MAARTENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Maarten Maartens here shows himself a master of the short
story, and more of a cosmopolitan than we had suspected.’
=The Academy.=--‘We have enjoyed the book, and we think it contains much
excellent work. It has all the wit, the discretion, the worldliness of
Mr. Anthony Hope’s social studies. And it has, in addition, a genuine
cosmopolitanism rare enough in English fiction.’
=The Outlook.=--‘The women Mr. Maartens has known are various and
interesting, and the episodes which he has chosen to depict are cleverly
imagined.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘Mr. Maarten Maartens displays all his genius as a
humorist, a story-teller, and a painter of talent.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE DANCER IN YELLOW
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Guardian.=--‘A very clever and finished study of a dancer at one of
the London theatres. We found the book very pleasant and refreshing, and
laid it down with the wish that there were more like it.’
=The World.=--‘_The Dancer in Yellow_ takes us by surprise. The story is
both tragic and pathetic.... We do not think he has written any more
clever and skilful story than this one, and particular admiration is due
to the byways and episodes of the narrative.’
THE WIDOWER
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Mr. Norris’s new story is one of his best. There
is always about his novels an atmosphere of able authorship ...and _The
Widower_ is handled throughout in the perfect manner to which Mr.
Norris’s readers are accustomed.’
=Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘There is distinction of all kinds in every
paragraph, and the whole is worthy of the delicately-finished details.
Mr. Norris is always delightfully witty, clever, and unfailing in
delicacy and point of style and manner, breezily actual, and briskly
passing along. In a word, he is charming.’
MARIETTA’S MARRIAGE
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘A fluent style, a keen insight into certain types of
human nature, a comprehensive and humorous view of modern society--these
are gifts Mr. Norris has already displayed, and again exhibits in his
present volume. From the first chapter to the last, the book runs
smoothly and briskly, with natural dialogue and many a piquant
situation.’
=The Daily News.=--‘Every character in the book is dexterously drawn. Mr.
Norris’s book is interesting, often dramatic, and is the work of, if not
a deep, a close and humorous observer of men and women.’
A VICTIM OF GOOD LUCK
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It has not a dull page from first to last. Any
one with normal health and taste can read a book like this with real
pleasure.’
=The Spectator.=--‘The brightest and cleverest book which Mr. Norris has
given us since he wrote _The Rogue_.
=The Saturday Review.=--‘Novels which are neither dull, unwholesome,
morbid, nor disagreeable, are so rare in these days, that _A Victim of
Good Luck_ ... ought to find a place in a book-box filled for the most
part with light literature.... We think it will increase the reputation
of an already very popular author.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE COUNTESS RADNA
BY W. E. MORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Speaker.=--‘In style, skill in construction, and general “go,” it is
worth a dozen ordinary novels.’
=Black and White.=--‘The novel, like all Mr. Norris’s work, is an
excessively clever piece of work, and the author never for a moment
allows his grasp of his plot and his characters to slacken.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘Mr. Norris writes throughout with much
liveliness and force, saying now and then something that is worth
remembering. And he sketches his minor characters with a firm touch.’
THE IMAGE BREAKERS
BY GERTRUDE DIX
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Outlook.=--‘We have here a book packed with thought, suggestive,
sincere. The story is told supremely well. It has construction, it has
atmosphere. The characters live, breathe, love, suffer. Everything is on
the high plane of literature. It is a book of absorbing interest.’
A PROPHET OF THE REAL
BY ESTHER MILLER
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Miss Miller’s study is both striking and
original. The young authoress knows how to tell her story, and her
manner, the way in which she describes the emotions of her characters,
is always adequate and often eloquent. She shows us the girl as she was
in the days of her servitude, gives us all the illuminating details of
her sordid existence; then she shows us the pathetic blossoming of the
nipped bud under the influence of kindness, the transformation of the
morbid girl into a beautiful and gracious woman. Miss Miller is really
to be congratulated on her heroine. The study is interesting and
faithful.’
THE GLOWWORM
BY MAY BATEMAN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘It has quite a character of its own; it has charm and it
has feeling. The minor characters are all good, and there is a pleasant
humour always at hand to relieve a story otherwise tragical enough.’
=Punch.=--‘A clever, well-written story.’
=Truth.=--‘As interesting as it is original.’
=The Morning Post.=--‘It is distinctly a fine piece of fiction, for the
author can delineate character with precision and sympathy, and her
style is admirably polished.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Miss Bateman has given us a very careful and
sympathetic story of the successive phases of a fine nature; the
character is consistently developed with a tender compassion for the
impracticable and appreciation for the beautiful. The authoress has,
moreover, a fund of shrewd common-sense which, combined with keen
observation and humour, makes her book both readable and entertaining.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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GILLETTE’S MARRIAGE
BY MAMIE BOWLES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘This is an extraordinarily clever performance and will
be found most absorbing. The characterisation is excellent, the dialogue
natural and alive, the emotion poignant and real.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is decidedly clever and human, and the
brilliantly bold heroism of Gillette’s final act of self-sacrifice is
effective. One must always admit its undeniable power.’
THE FALL OF LORD PADDOCKSLEA
BY LIONEL LANGTON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The World.=--‘A very clever and good-humoured _jeu d’esprit_. The talk is
excellent, the atmosphere of worldliness and self-interest tempered by
the very best manners and form, the verisimilitude of Lady
Killiecrankie, are all much to be commended.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Amusing snapshots of current political life.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A clever and ingenious story of political
life, told with a touch of cynicism which is redeemed by a background of
romance.’
=The Standard.=--‘Will no doubt be read with amusement by those who find
delight in the personal journalism of the day, and have the curiosity to
fit the characters to the originals. There is enough bright writing in
the book to make it a pleasant companion.’
THE WHITE TERROR
BY FÉLIX GRAS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘The fascination of _The Reds of the Midi_ and _The
Terror_ is exerted with equal force and charm in their brilliant sequel,
_The White Terror_. Few narratives in modern fiction are more thrilling.
M. Gras has the gift of achieving the most vivid and poignant results by
a method devoid of artifice or elaboration. The narrative is a
masterpiece of simplicity and _naïveté_: a stirring and richly coloured
recital.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘The book is full of living pictures. The
feverishness, the uncertainty, of everything and everybody are most
powerfully brought out.’
THE TERROR
BY FÉLIX GRAS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Those who shared Mr. Gladstone’s admiration for
_The Reds of the Midi_ will renew it when they read _The Terror_. It is
a stirring and vivid story, full of perilous and startling adventures,
and without one interval of dulness.... It excites and absorbs the
reader’s attention. The excitement grows with the development of the
plot, and the incidents are told with much spirit.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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BY BREAD ALONE
BY I. K. FRIEDMAN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘A remarkably interesting, able, and right-minded study
of the labour question in the United States. The employer, the
capitalist, the “hands,” the Socialist, the Anarchist, the would-be
Saviour of Society,--all are fully, sympathetically, and convincingly
presented. There are powerful scenes in the book; there are characters
that touch.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘There are descriptions which tell. There are remarkable
scenes painted, as it were, with blood and fire. Man and machinery in
grim revolt are portrayed, with hand-to-hand fights and many gruesome
death-scenes.’
LOVE AND HIS MASK
BY MENIE MURIEL DOWIE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Literature.=--‘All of the many different kinds of novel readers will
enjoy _Love and his Mask_.... The story is a refreshment from beginning
to end. _Love and his Mask_ will be one of the most popular novels of
the autumn season.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘A delightful romance.’
=Punch.=--‘A very clever novel, brightly written.’
FOREST FOLK
BY JAMES PRIOR
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘We have no hesitation in welcoming _Forest Folk_ as one
of the very best and most original novels of the year, and our only
regret is that we have failed to proclaim the fact sooner. The
characterisation is excellent, the narrative is crowded with exciting
incident, and the author has, in addition to an eye for the picturesque,
a quite peculiar gift for describing effects of light and colour.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Mr. Prior has a large knowledge and is a keen
observer of nature; he is cunning in devising strong situations,
dramatic in describing them. His are forest folk indeed, men and women
of flesh and blood.’
TANGLED TRINITIES
BY DANIEL WOODROFFE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Full of live people, whom one remembers long.
The whole book is charming.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Mr. Woodroffe writes with admirable
clearness, picturesqueness, and restraint; he has an eye for character,
and a grip of tragic possibilities. It is a moving story, and stamps the
author as one of the few real artists who are now writing English
fiction.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO’S NOVELS
=W. L. Courtney in the Daily Telegraph.=--_D’Annunzio is one of the great
artistic energies of the age. He is the incarnation of the Latin genius
just as Rudyard Kipling is the incarnation of the Anglo-Saxon genius. He
has invented new harmonies of prose._
_In One Volume, price 6s. each_
THE FLAME OF LIFE
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A work of genius, unique, astounding. There are
passages that sweep one headlong, and the whole leaves an indelible
impression.’
=The Standard.=--‘The pages are rich in symbolic imagery, in beautiful
word-pictures of Venice, and are saturated by the spirit of the
Renaissance in its most luxurious form.’
THE CHILD OF PLEASURE
=The Academy.=--’ ... Clever, subtle, to the point of genius.’
=The Daily Mail.=--‘A powerful study of passion, masterly of its kind.’
=The Daily Graphic.=--‘The poetic beauty and richness of the language make
it a sensuous, glowing poem in prose.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘The strength of the book lies in the intensity with
which the writer brings out the pleasures and pains of his creatures.’
THE VICTIM
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘No word but “genius” will fit his analysis of
the mental history of the faithless husband.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘The book contains many descriptive passages of
rare beauty--passages which by themselves are lovely little prose
lyrics.... It is a self-revelation; the revelation of the sort of self
that D’Annunzio delineates with a skill and knowledge so extraordinary.
The soul of the man, raw, bruised, bleeding, is always before us.’
THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A masterpiece. The story holds and haunts one.
Unequalled even by the great French contemporary whom, in his realism,
D’Annunzio most resembles, is the account of the pilgrimage to the
shrine of the Virgin by the sick, deformed, and afflicted. It is a great
prose poem, that, of its kind, cannot be surpassed. Every detail of the
scene is brought before us in a series of word-pictures of wonderful
power and vivid colouring, and the ever-recurring refrain _Viva Maria!
Maria Evviva!_ rings in our ears as we lay down the book. It is the work
of a master, whose genius is beyond dispute.’
THE VIRGINS OF THE ROCKS
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘He writes beautifully, and this book, by the way,
is most admirably translated. The picture he presents of these three
princesses in their sun-baked, mouldering, sleepy palace is, as we look
back upon it, strangely impressive and even haunting.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.