We knew the voice. Our American friend, John B. Bellamy, was in form,
and held a select audience interested in the smoke-room of the Royal at
Plymouth. This is what we heard him say--
"Why, gentlemen, the people of this old country don't know a good thing
when they've got it. What is it, all of it, from the Tamar to the
Land's End? A nice little estate in size for a cattle ranch out West,
with everything on it for making a pile. Why, gentlemen, every breath
of air is worth dollars, your skies are worth dollars, your seas are
worth dollars, all your old piskies and saints and giants are worth
dollars--just ask John B. Bellamy to run the show.
"Why, gentlemen, we, in America, make dollars; we can't help it. Then
we get tired, but must go on because we have nothing else to do. A man
may make dollars in the States faster than he can give'm away. I know
a man who has charity-cheques signed by an electric machine, and still
his pile grows, and he says it'll pay to give away all he possibly can
now, rather than let his heirs pay death duties, which will be quite a
sum on his little concern; for he is a small man compared with some.
These are the men who want a place like this to come to when tired of
pile-raising. You may say, gentlemen, some other place your side of
the pond will do just as well; but it won't. You _can't_ work in this
country; John B. Bellamy has tried it. Why, gentlemen, in the States
you _must_ work; and when the day ends, you don't know you've finished,
but go to bed looking for a job; but here, there's something in the
air, and you just don't want to work, and don't care if the whole
durned sub-lunary universe tumbles into space. That's how I feel.
"Just put up a big board, gentlemen, and advertise 'CORNWALL TO LET:
leases of life renewed to men with dollar-piles and tired of trying to
be tired.' You'll have'm tumbling over in shiploads, for it'll suit
their complaint, just like Lancashire air suits cotton. It'll just
suit the Cornish complaint for them to come, now that 'fish, tin, and
copper' aren't all flourishing.
"I don't want to work here. I tell you honestly, I don't want to work.
When I return, I'll tell my friends that I've located the place in
which I don't want to work; and all the gold bugs and pile-drivers will
come round and want the receipt. I'll just tell them it's the Cornish
air, and Cornish skies, and Cornish cream, and Cornish everything--the
place where Old Nick built churches, just for want of something to do.
That'll be a new sensation in the States for men with piles wanting an
extension of time to look around before the next-of-kin pay the death
duties.
"No, gentlemen, no thanks, if you please. These are the honest opinions
of John B. Bellamy, citizen, U.S.A., and if you want a man to run the
show, why, that address will find him."
* * * * *
Paddington once more.
"Evening papers--Extra Specials. Autumn Sessions. Panic on Stock
Exchange. Revolutions. Anarchies!"
"Great Scott! Where on earth have we been living?" said Guy, excitedly.
"Hi! Boy! Papers! All of'm?"
[Illustration: LOW TIDE.]
JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION
BY ARTHUR H. ADAMS.
=GALAHAD JONES.= A Tragic Farce. Crown 8vo. 6/-
With 16 full-page Illustrations by Norman Lindsay.
[asterism] Galahad Jone is a middle-aged bank clerk, with a family.
One day, on his way home, a letter falls to his feet from the balcony
of a house he is passing. It is addressed "To You," and on reading it
he discovers that he is requested to meet the writer in the garden of
the house at 10 o'clock that night. In a spirit of knight-errantry,
he decides to do so, and learns that the writer--a young girl--is
kept practically in prison by her father, because of her affection
for a man of whom he does not approve. The chivalry of Galahad Jones
plunges him into many difficulties, and leads to some very awkward and
extremely amusing situations.
=A TOUCH OF FANTASY.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Romance For Those who are Lucky Enough to Wear Glasses.
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=THE SAINT'S PROGRESS; A Novel.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Translated from the Italian of Ciro Alvi by Mary Gibson.
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Church who was perhaps the most extraordinary man of his age. The
somewhat dissolute early life of the founder of the Franciscan Order
is deftly outlined, the young man's innate goodness of heart and
kindly disposition being clearly apparent even in the midst of his
ostentatious gaiety and sudden impulses.
BY W. M. ARDAGH.
=THE MAGADA.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Pall Mall Gazette_--"'The Magada' is a store-house of rare and
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high adventure and deeds of derring-do."
_Observer_--"The book has admirably caught the spirit of romance."
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we congratulate Mr. Ardagh."
_THE KNIGHTLY YEARS._ Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] In "The Knightly Years" the author of "The Magada" takes
us back once more to the Canary Islands in the days of Isabella the
Catholic. The tale deals with the aftermath of conquests, when "the
first use the islanders made of their newly-acquired moral code was to
apply it to their rulers." The hero of the story is the body-servant
of the profligate Governor of Gomera, whose love affairs become
painfully involved with those of his master. In the course of his
many adventures we come across Queen Isabella herself, the woman to
whom every man was loyal save her own husband; and countless Spanish
worthies, seamen, soldiers, governors and priests, all real men, the
makers of Empire four hundred years ago. The book abounds in quaint
sayings both of Spaniard and native, while the love-making of the
simple young hero and his child-wife weaves a pretty thread of romance
through the stirring tale of adventure.
BY ALLEN ARNOT.
=THE DEMPSEY DIAMONDS=; A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] This is the story of the secret transference of a fortune;
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Villages, one on the east coast, one buried in midland woods. The tale
is of the old slow days of twenty years ago before the tyranny of
speed began, but it is swayed throughout and borne to its close by the
same swift passions that sway the stories of men and women to-day, and
will sway them till the end of time.
BY H. F. PREYOST BATTERSBY.
=THE SILENCE OF MEN.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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right to be called. March, a young civilian of great promise, meets
her on the boat going out to India, and offers her the hospitality
of his house, which is kept by an unmarried sister. March and Lynne
become married--and secretly so at Lynne's express wish. After a brief
time she bolts to England with Lord Rupert Dorrington, an A.D.C., and
cables that she has married him. While on leave March comes across her
at a fashionable ball in London. Meanwhile he has fallen in love with
another girl, but Lynne declares that if he marries her she will cry
the true facts from the housetops.
By a cunning arrangement of circumstance the reader is made aware of
the fact that March's marriage has been all along invalid, which of
course puts a different complexion upon Lynne's matrimonial position.
Mr. Battersby handles the story in a very masterful way, and his
descriptions of Indian scenery and social life in London show the
quality of personal observation.
=THE LAST RESORT.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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BY GERARD BENDALL.
=THE ILLUSIONS OF MR. & MRS. BRESSINGHAM.=
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=THE PROGRESS OF MRS. CRIPPS-MIDDLEMORE.=
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and the final reflection are sufficiently refreshing in these days of
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people. He writes in a leisurely way, and his book is full of
talk--some of it extremely good talk."
BY PAUL BERTRAM
=THE SHADOW OF POWER.= Third Thousand. Crown 8vo. 6/-
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BY HORACE BLEACKLEY.
=A GENTLEMAN OF THE ROAD.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Author of "Ladies Fair and Frail," etc.
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eighteenth century story of abductions, lonely inns, highwaymen
and hangmen. Two men are in love with Margaret Crofton: Colonel
Thornley, an old villain, and Dick Maynard, who is as youthful as he
is virtuous. Thornley nearly succeeds in compelling Margaret to marry
him, for he has in his possession a document sadly incriminating to
her father. Maynard settles Thornley, but himself in his turn is "up
against it." He is arrested for complicity in the highway thefts of
a glad but graceless young ruffian. Both are sentenced to death, but
a great effort is made to get them reprieved. It would be a pity to
divulge the climax cunningly contrived by Mr. Bleackley, save to say
that the book ends in a scene of breathless interest before the Tyburn
gallows.
BY EX-LIEUTENANT BILSE.
=LIFE IN A GARRISON TOWN.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Also in Paper Cover 1/-net.
The suppressed German Novel. With a preface written by the author
whilst in London, and an introduction by Arnold White.
_Truth_--"The disgraceful exposures of the book were expressly
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the book will probably suggest to you is, that German militarism is
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BY WALTER BLOEM.
=THE IRON YEAR.= A Novel Crown 8vo. 6/-
Translated from the German by Stella Bloch.
[asterism] This remarkable novel depicts in vivid word-painting the
final struggle between France and Germany, in the year 1870. The
advance of the German troops, the famous battle of Spicheren, the
fearful cavalry encounter of Rezonville, the struggle and capitulation
of Strassburg are all incidents in this wonderfully graphic narrative.
A love-story runs through the book, telling of the fateful attraction
of a French officer for a German girl. As may well be imagined, the
path of their lives is beset with many obstacles, but after great
tribulations they are reunited under very pathetic circumstances.
Another finely drawn character is that of a hypersensitive gifted
young musician, transformed, during these times of stress, into a
strong man of action.
"The Iron Year" created an extraordinary sensation in Germany. So
great was the demand for the book that twenty editions were exhausted.
The German Emperor read it aloud to the members of the Royal Family
circle during the Spring.
BY PETER BLUNDELL.
=THE FINGER OF MR. BLEE.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] The amusing adventures of Harold Blee, a youthful Eurasian,
form the main theme of this original novel. Harold is brought into
contact with the two rival factions of the local British society,
and perpetrates many works of mischief, to the discomfiture of the
rich and pompous Mrs. Gladstone Mortimer and to the suppressed
amusement of her enemies. He is a most versatile boy, whose quaint
quips and irresistible antics serve a very useful purpose, when he is
instrumental in smoothing out the course of love for Harry McMucker,
his employer's son.
BY SHELLAND BRADLEY.
=ADVENTURES OF AN A.D.C.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Westminster Gazette_--" ... makes better and more entertaining
reading than nine out of every ten novels of the day.... Those
who know nothing about Anglo-Indian social life will be as well
entertained by this story as those who know everything about it."
_Times_--"Full of delightful humour."
=AN AMERICAN GIRL AT THE DURBAR.= A Novel.
Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] A charming love story, containing a vivid and picturesque
account of the Durbar.
_Daily Chronicle_--"Here is a truly delightful work which should prove
of interest to a wide class of readers--a book for a dull day."
BY EVELYN BRENTWOOD.
=HENRY KEMPTON.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] In his second novel, Evelyn Brentwood has again given us
a vivid picture of soldier life, and has again chosen for his hero a
very unconventional character. Cool and calculating, ambitious and
heartless, Henry determines to climb the social ladder by every means
in his power. Articled to a solicitor when the story opens, he is only
waiting for an opportunity to follow his inclinations and enter the
army, when an accidental meeting with a duke's daughter precipitates
matters, and he immediately throws up the study of the law. Later, we
follow his career as a soldier; see how he falls under the spell of
one of his senior officers in the 24th Hussars; how he wins the V. C.
for the mere purpose of bringing his name into prominence; how he is
invalided home and meets Lady Violet for the second time; and finally
how he is taught, through his experience with a worthless woman, to
estimate at its true value the love of one who stands by him in the
hour of his humiliation.
=HECTOR GRAEME.= Third Thousand Crown 8vo. 6/-
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Graeme is not the great soldier of fiction, usually depicted by
novelists, but a rather unpopular officer in the English army
who is given to strange fits of unconsciousness, during which he
shows extraordinary physic powers. He is a man as ambitious as he
is unscrupulous, with the desire but not the ability to become
a Napoleon. The subject matter of the story is unusual and the
atmosphere thoroughly convincing.
_Morning Leader_--"Provides much excitement and straightforward
pleasure. A remarkable exception to the usual boring novels about
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BY JAMES BRYCE.
=THE STORY OF A PLOUGHBOY.= An Autobiography.
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"The Mansion," "The Cottage"--the characters whose passions and
interests make the plot of this story are drawn from the households
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attempt to present country life in all its important aspects. In this,
again, it differs from all other novels of the soil in our own or
perhaps in any language: its author writes not from book-knowledge or
hearsay or even observation, but from experience. He has lived what he
describes, and under the power of his realism readers will feel that
they are not so much glancing over printed pages as mixing with living
men and women. But the story has interest for others than the ordinary
novel-reader. It appeals as strongly to the many earnest minds that
are now concerned with the questions of Land and Industrial Reform.
To such its very faithfulness to life will suggest answers startling,
perhaps, but certainly arresting.
BY WILLIAM CAINE.
=HOFFMANN'S CHANCE.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
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They collaborate in a blend of comic opera and musical comedy. Their
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grief. There is plenty of feminine interest in the book and some
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the actress, whose portraiture is one of the most vivid and effective
presentations of cattiness that has ever come our way."
BY DANIEL CHAUCER.
=THE SIMPLE LIFE, LIMITED.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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inspired by the convention of the unconventional. Evidently Mr.
Chaucer knows the Simple Life from the inside, and his reflections
will both amuse and amaze those who know it only from casual
allusions. Many well-known figures will be recognized, though not
in all cases under their proper names, and, as in the case of Mr.
Mallock's "New Republic," Society will be busy dotting the "i's" and
crossing the "t's."
=THE NEW HUMPTY DUMPTY.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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humour."
_Pall Mall Gazette_--"The pseudonymous author of 'The Simple Life'
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brilliant is it, with such a range of first-class experience, that
there will be keen curiosity to know who has written these works."
BY MAUD CRUTTWELL.
=FIRE AND FROST.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Fire is an Egyptian Prince and Frost is an English girl
living in Florence. The impetuous and passionate temperament of the
Oriental is matched against the steadfast rational nature of the
heroine. The uncompromising desire of the former is to make the
English girl his wife, and the circumstances under which she is
reluctantly brought to consent are original but entirely convincing.
Thenceforth the struggle is on the woman's part, as she finds herself
pitted against the fierce vacillating will of her husband, and the
jealous intrigues of a mercenary little Florentine marchesa--a
character brilliantly drawn--and her satellites. The outcome of this
battle of temperaments is deeply interesting. The natures of East and
West in conflict have been employed as material for fiction already,
but it can safely be said that never have the dramatic possibilities
of the subject been treated with such judgment as in this novel. The
author makes full use of her power of characterization in conveying
the action of the story to the reader with a force only to be found in
the work of a really accomplished writer.
BY SIDNEY DARK.
=THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BE KING.= A Novel.
Crown 8vo. 6/-
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BY MARION FOX.
=THE BOUNTIFUL HOUR.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
Author of "The Hand of the North."
[asterism] This is the story of a girl's life in the final years of
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in the time of Cowper and Newton, with the contrasted atmosphere
of London in the days of the Prince Regent. With all of these the
heroine, Charlotte Hume, comes in contact.
The shadow which is cast across the plot is the outcome of a promise,
given by Howard Luttrell in his younger days to a woman of easy
reputation, of whom he soon tired, but to whom he had passed his word
that whilst she lived he would never marry. In later life he meets
Charlotte Hume, with whom, almost unconsciously, he falls in love. On
awakening fully to the fact, and finding the other woman still living,
he brings the solving of the problem to the girl herself. Luttrell is
the last of a long line of men and women, who, whatever they may or
may not have done, never broke their word. The way in which Charlotte
cuts the knot most be left to the patience of the reader to find out.
The book does not pretend to being an historical novel, but a
portrayal of certain aspects of middle-class life some hundred or more
years ago.
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=THE OPINIONS OF JÉRÔME COIGNARD.= A Translation by Mrs. WILFRID
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=THE GODS ARE ATHIRST.= A Translation by ALFRED ALLINSON.
_Already Published._
=MY FRIEND'S BOOK.= A Translation by J. LEWIS MAY.
=JOCASTA AND THE FAMISHED CAT.= A Translation by Mrs. FARLEY.
=THE ASPERATIONS OF JEAN SERVIEN.= A Translation by ALFRED ALLINSON.
=AT THE SIGN OF THE REINE PEDAUQUE.= A Translation by Mrs. WILFRID
JACKSON.
=ON LIFE AND LETTERS.= Vol. 1.
=THE RED LILY.= A Translation by WINIFRED STEPHENS.
=MOTHER OF PEARL.= A Translation by the EDITOR.
=THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD.= A Translation by LAFCADIO HEARN.
=THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS.= A Translation by ALFRED ALLINSON.
=THE WELL OF ST. CLARE.= A Translation by ALFRED ALLINSON.
=BALTHASAR.= A Translation by Mrs. JOHN LANE.
=THAÏS.= A Translation by ROBERT B. DOUGLAS.
=THE WHITE STONE.= A Translation by C. E. ROCHE.
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=THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHE.= A Translation by ALFRED
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=THE WICKER-WORK WOMAN.= A Translation by M. P. WILLCOCKS.
BY JOHN GORE.
=THE BARMECIDE'S FEAST.= Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
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=THE LASS WITH THE DELICATE AIR.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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history of "The Lass with the Delicate Air" is woven the story of the
Hicks family. Mrs. Hicks keeps a lodging house in Chelsea, and has
theatrical ambitions. The author has keen powers of observation and a
faculty of "getting inside a woman's mind" and the same witty dialogue
that was so commented upon in "Mrs. Gramercy-Park" is again seen in
the new work. The scene of the book is laid partly in London and
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=WAYWARD FEET.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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St. Wulphyturmer a mediæval fortified town in the Pas-de-Calais, and
Paris. The two heroines Toinette Moreau and Joan Dombray, both come
from St. Wulphy and both go to Paris. Their histories contrive a sharp
contrast: one being by character sweet, yielding and affectionate,
while the other is combative, rebellious and intellectual. The
character drawing, as in Mr. Goring-Thomas' other books, is notably
clear and interesting. His already celebrated wit, his original
humour, and insight into character again illuminate his latest book.
The history of Joan Dombray, especially, is a strong, original, and
striking piece of work.
BY HENRY HARLAND.
=THE CARDINAL'S SNUFF BOX.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
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_World_--"The reading of it is a pleasure rare and unalloyed."
=THE LADY PARAMOUNT.= Crown 8vo. 55th Thousand. 6/-
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=COMEDIES AND ERRORS.= Crown 8vo. Third Edition. 6/-
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BY CROSBY HEATH.
=HENRIETTA TAKING NOTES.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Henrietta is the eleven year old daughter of a dramatic
critic, who, with her delightful younger brother, Cyrus, are worthy of
a place beside "Helen's Babies" or "Elizabeth's Children." They cause
the "Olympians" many anxious and anguished moments, yet their pranks
are forgiven because of the endearing charm of their generous natures.
Miss Heath writes of children with the skill that comes of a thorough
understanding of the child mind.
BY BERTAL HEENEY.
=PICKANOCK=: A Tale of Settlement Days in Olden Canada.
Crown 8vo. 6/-
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=APRIL PANHASARD.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Lady Essendine is reluctantly compelled to divorce her
unfaithful husband, who has developed into a dipsomaniac. She is
naturally distressed by the scandal her action carries, and flies to
Coddle-in-the-Dale, where she hopes to hide her identity under the
name of April Panhasard--a name chosen casually from the titles of
three novels at a railway station bookstall, "Young April," "Peter
Pan," "The Hazard of the Die." In the quiet village she moves a sweet
and gracious figure, serenely indifferent to the curiosity of those
who try to penetrate the mystery that surrounds her. Only Boris
Majendie, who poses as her cousin, is in her confidence. Her quiet is
speedily disturbed. A young American, to whom she is strangely drawn,
makes her a proposal of marriage. Boris runs more than a little wild,
although he leaves her his larger devotion. Finally her divorced
husband turns up, and she is left in an intensely compromising
situation, for the necessary six months have not yet elapsed to make
the decree absolute. How she frees herself from this curious tangle
must be left for the reader to find out.
The book is alive with incident, but it has the rare quality of
restraint, which prevents it from ever merging into the melodramatic,
and the characters are all drawn with rare artistic skill.
=HALF IN EARNEST.= Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Derrick Kilmarney, the secretary of a famous politician,
is a young man with the disposition to take the best that life offers
him, and shirk the responsibilities. He falls in love with a girl,
but shudders at the idea of the bondage of marriage. His love is
emancipated, unfettered. He is ambitious, politically, allows himself
to become entangled with his chief's wife, and is too indolent to
break with her even in justice to the girl he loves. Eventually there
comes a time when all the threads have to be gathered together, when
love has to be weighed with ambition, and in Kilmarney's case the
denounement is unexpected and startling.
=EARTH.= Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Muriel Hine's previous novel "Half in Earnest" achieved a
considerable success, "Earth" seems likely to achieve a greater. The
story deals with the awakening of a pure young girl to the realities
of life and what they mean. With a proper understanding of human
nature comes sympathy: to know all is to pardon all. "Earth" is a
society novel with a society atmosphere that is convincing.
BY ADELAIDE HOLT.
=OUTSIDE THE ARK.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] This is an attractively told story with many outstanding
features. Hugh Inskip, a prominent man of letters, marries a young
wife, whom he does not understand, because she is continually posing
and never her natural self. She is also jealous of the beautiful but
incapacitated actress, Margaret Stair, for whom Inskip is writing
a play, and makes use of an ingenious and shady trick to spy upon
her husband's motives. But Iris, the young wife, is not entirely a
malignant figure, for her frail beauty and helplessness make a tender
appeal for sympathy. The scene of the novel changes at times from
the hub of London life to the peaceful quiet of a country vicarage,
whither the father of Iris--a charming scholar--lets fall honeyed
words of wisdom and advice or gently chides his over-zealous curate.
The author has a strong sense of humour, as well as a great power of
dramatic presentment.
=THE VALLEY OF REGRET.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Betty Feverell's childhood is full of pathos. For the
best reason in the world she is unable to capture the sympathy of
her supposed father, and runs away to make an imprudent marriage
with a very charming but rather weak young man who is addicted to
"drink." Fastidious to a degree, this failing does not seem to spoil
the gentleness and refinement of his disposition, until, enraged by
an insult to his wife, he kills a man in a fit of alcoholic frenzy.
With her husband sentenced to penal servitude for seven years, the
problem of Betty's life is full of difficulty. After five years a
second man, John Earle, wins her love, knowing little or nothing of
the obstacles in the way of its fulfilment. Finally, news arrives that
the convict will return in a few weeks, and the story ends suddenly
and unexpectedly. This is a delightful novel. It has incident and
freshness; and the directness of the style gives the book a remarkably
artistic impression of life.
BY MRS. JOHN LANE.
=KITWYK.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
A Story with numerous illustrations by HOWARD PYLE, ALBERT STERNER and
GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS.
_Times_--"Mrs. Lane has succeeded to admiration, and chiefly by reason
of being so much interested in her theme that she makes no conscious
effort to please.... Everyone who seeks to be diverted will read
'Kitwyk' for its obvious qualities of entertainment."
=THE CHAMPAGNE STANDARD.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Morning Post_--"The author's champagne overflows with witty sayings
too numerous to recite."
_Pall Mall Gazette_--"Mrs. Lane's papers on our social manners and
foibles are the most entertaining, the kindest and the truest that
have been offered us for a long time.... The book shows an airy
philosophy that will render it of service to the social student."
=ACCORDING TO MARIA.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Daily Chronicle_--"This delightful novel, sparkling with humour....
Maria's world is real.... Mrs. Lane is remarkably true to life in that
world.... Maria is priceless, and Mrs. Lane is a satirist whose life
may be indefatigably joyous in satiric art. For her eyes harvest the
little absurdities, and her hand makes sheaves of them.... Thackeray
might have made such sheaves if he had been a woman."
=BALTHASAR AND OTHER STORIES.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Translated by Mrs. JOHN LANE from the French of Anatole France.
_Daily Graphic_--"The original charm and distinction of the author's
style has survived the difficult ordeal of appearing in another
language.... 'The Cure's Mignonette' is as perfect in itself as some
little delicate flower."
=TALK O' THE TOWN.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Mrs. John Lane's new book, "Talk of the Town," is on the
same lines as "The Champagne Standard," that sparkling and brilliantly
witty study of English and American life, and has the delightful
and refreshing humour we have a right to expect of the author of
"According to Maria," and that power of observation and keen insight
into everyday life which made "The Champagne Standard" one of the most
successful and one of the most quoted books of the season, both in
England and America.
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.
=LITERARY LAPSES.= Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
_Spectator_--"This book is a happy example of the way in which the
double life can be lived blamelessly and to the great advantage of
the community. The book fairly entitles Mr. Leacock to be considered
not only a humourist but a benefactor. The contents should appeal to
English readers with the double virtue that attaches to work which is
at once new and richly humorous."
=NONSENSE NOVELS.= Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
_Pall Mall Gazette_--"He certainly bids fair to rival the immortal
Lewis Carroll."
_Punch_--"Delightful spontaneity. There is genuine gold here on every
page."
_Daily Graphic_--"'Guido, the Gimlet of Ghent' set us in a roar. His
last tale, 'The Asbestos Man,' is the best."
=SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN.= Fourth Edition
Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
_Evening Standard_--"We have never laughed more often."
_Canada_--"A whole storehouse of sunshine. Of the same brand as
'Literary Lapses' and 'Nonsense Novels.' It is the surest recipe for
enjoying a happy holiday."
_Daily Telegraph_--"Irresistibly comical. Mr. Leacock strikes us as
a sort of Americanised W. W. Jacobs. Like the English humorist, the
Canadian one has a delightfully fresh and amusing way of putting
things."
_Times_--"His real hard work--for which no conceivable emolument would
be a fitting reward--is distilling sunshine. This new book is full
of it--the sunshine of humour, the thin keen sunshine of irony, the
mellow evening sunshine of sentiment."
BY W. J. LOCKE.
=STELLA MARIS.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
With 8 Illustrations by Frank Wiles.
[asterism] Mr. Locke's astonishing fertility of invention has never
yet been seen to as great advantage as in this story. It has all
the picturesque bravery of the "Beloved Vagabond," all the tender
sentiment of "Marcus Ordeyne," all the quixotic spirit of "Clementina
Wing." And yet it is like none of these. Infinitely tender, infinitely
impressive, is the story of Stella Maris, the wonder child, who has
never moved from her couch, who receives her impressions of the
outside world from her gentle spirit and the gold-clad tales of her
loving friends and the secrets of the seagulls that flit so near her
window. And then Stella, grown to a woman, recovers; to take her
place, not in the world of beauty she had pictured from the stillness
of her couch, but the world of men and women.
From the first page the reader falls under a spell. For all its
wistful delicacy of texture Mr. Locke's humanity, broad and strong,
vibrates with terror just as it soothes with its sense of peace. This
is Mr. Locke's finest achievement.
=THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOL.= A Novel
Crown 8vo. 6/-
With Illustrations by Alec Bull.
_Daily Telegraph_--"In 'Aristide Pujol' Mr. W. J. Locke has given life
to one of the most fascinating creatures in modern fiction."
_Morning Post_--"We do not know when Mr. Locke was more happily
inspired."
[A]=DERELICTS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Daily Chronicle_--" Mr. Locke tells his story in a very true, very
moving, and very noble book. If anyone can read the last chapter with
dry eyes we shall be surprised. 'Derelicts' is an impressive and
important book."
_Morning Post_--"Mr. Locke's clever novel. One of the most effective
stories that have appeared for some time past."
[A]=IDOLS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Daily Telegraph_--"A brilliantly written and eminently readable book."
_Daily Mail_--"One of the most distinguished novels of the present
book season."
_Punch_--"The Baron strongly recommends Mr. W. J. Locke's 'Idols'
to all novel readers. It is well written. No time is wasted in
superfluous descriptions; there is no fine writing for fine writing's
sake, but the story will absorb the reader.... It is a novel that,
once taken up, cannot willingly be put down until finished."
[A]=A STUDY IN SHADOWS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Daily Chronicle_--"Mr. Locke has achieved a distinct success in this
novel. He has struck many emotional chords and struck them all with a
firm sure hand."
_Athenæum_--"The character-drawing is distinctly good. All the
personages stand well defined with strongly marked individualities."
[A]=THE WHITE DOVE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Times_--"An interesting story, full of dramatic scenes."
_Morning Post_--"An interesting story. The characters are strongly
conceived and vividly presented, and the dramatic moments are
powerfully realised."
[A]=THE USURPER.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_World_--"This quite uncommon novel."
_Spectator_--"Character and plot are most ingeniously wrought, and the
conclusion, when it comes, is fully satisfying."
_Times_--"An impressive romance."
_THE DEMAGOGUE AND LADY PHAYRE._ Cr. 8vo. 3/6
[A]=AT THE GATE OF SAMARIA.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Daily Chronicle_--"The heroine of this clever story attracts our
interest.... She is a clever and subtle study.... We congratulate Mr.
Locke."
_Morning Post_--"A cleverly written tale ... the author's pictures of
Bohemian life are bright and graphic."
[A]=WHERE LOVE IS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Mr. JAMES DOUGLAS, in _Star_--"I do not often praise a book with
this exultant gusto, but it gave me so much spiritual stimulus and
moral pleasure that I feel bound to snatch the additional delight of
commending it to those readers who long for a novel that is a piece of
literature as well as a piece of life."
_Standard_--"A brilliant piece of work."
_Times_--"The author has the true gift; his people are alive."
[A]=THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE.= Cr. 8vo. 6/-
Mr. C. K. SHORTER, in _Sphere_--"A book which has just delighted my
heart."
_Truth_--"Mr. Locke's new novel is one of the best artistic pieces of
work I have met with for many a day."
_Daily Chronicle_--"Mr. Locke succeeds, indeed, in every crisis of
this most original story."
=THE BELOVED VAGABOND.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Truth_--"Certainly it is the most brilliant piece of work Mr. Locke
has done."
_Evening Standard_--"Mr. Locke can hardly fail to write beautifully.
He has not failed now."
=SIMON THE JESTER.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] The central figure of Mr. Locke's new novel is one Simon
de Gex, M.P., who having met life with a gay and serene philosophy is
suddenly called upon to face Death. This he does gallantly and jests
at Death until he discovers to his confusion that Destiny is a greater
jester than he. Eventually by surrendering his claims he attains
salvation. The heroine is Lola Brandt, an ex-trainer of animals, and
an important figure in the story is a dwarf, Professor Anastasius
Papadopoulas, who has a troupe of performing cats. The scene of the
novel is laid in London and Algiers.
=THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA WING.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Observer_--"Mr. Locke's best.... Clementina Wing and Dr. Quixtue
are the two most adorable characters that Mr. Locke has ever brought
together in holy wedlock. The phrases are Locke's most debonairly
witty."
[A] Also Bound in Cloth with Illustrated paper wrapper 1/-net.
BY LAURA BOGUE LUFFMAN.
=A QUESTION OF LATITUDE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] The author of "A Question of Latitude" takes an English
girl from the comfortable stateliness of a country house in the Old
Country, and places her in a rough and ready environment in Australia.
The girl finds her standard of values undergoing a change. She learns
to distinguish between English snobbery and Colonial simplicity and
manliness, she also learns how to wash up dishes, and that Australia
is not all kangaroos and giant cricketers. The atmosphere of the story
is convincing, and there are many vivid pictures of Melbourne life.
The book depicts Australia as it really is, its strength and its
weakness, its refinement and its vulgarity.
BY A. NEIL LYONS.
=ARTHUR'S.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Times_--"Not only a very entertaining and amusing work, but a very
kindly and tolerant work also. Incidentally the work is a mirror of a
phase of the low London life of to-day as true as certain of Hogarth's
transcripts in the eighteenth century, and far more tender."
_Punch_--"Mr. Neil Lyons seems to get right at the heart of things,
and I confess to a real admiration for this philosopher of the
coffee-stall."
=SIXPENNY PIECES.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Pall Mall Gazette_--"It is pure, fast, sheer life, salted with a
sense of humour."
_Evening Standard_--"'Sixpenny Pieces' is as good as 'Arthur's,' and
that is saying a great deal. A book full of laughter and tears and
hits innumerable that one feels impelled to read aloud. 'Sixpenny
Pieces' would be very hard indeed to beat."
=COTTAGE PIE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Mr. Lyons' former books dealt with East London characters.
Now he draws the varying types of a small country community. The
humour of the whole is enforced, inimitable, and there is the
underlying note of tragedy never wholly absent from the lives of the
poorer classes.
W. J. LOCKE, in _Outlook_--" ... That book of beauty, truth, and
artistry."
EDWIN PUGH, in _Outlook_--"I have never missed an opportunity to
express my admiration for his inimitable talent."
=CLARA; SOME CHAPTERS IN THE LIFE OF A HUSSY.=
Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Manchester Guardian_--"Mr. Lyons writes about life in the slums with
a great deal of penetrative sympathy for human nature as it shows
itself."
_Daily Graphic_--"Clara is a type, the real thing, and we know of
no-one else who could have created her."
BY ALLAN McAULAY.
=THE EAGLE'S NEST.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Athenæum_--"We should describe the book as a brilliant _tour de
force_.... The story is spirited and interesting. The love interest
also is excellent and pathetic."
_Spectator_--"This is one of those illuminating and stimulating
romances which set people reading history."
=BEGGARS AND SORNERS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] "Beggars and Sorners" is a novel which deals with what
may be called the back-wash of the "Forty Five." It commemorates
the _débâcle_ of a great romance, and in describing the lives, the
struggles, the make-shifts, the intrigues and the crimes of a small
circle of Jacobite exiles in Holland between the years 1745 and 1750,
it strives to show the pathos of history while revealing its seamy
side. The characters are imaginary (with one important exception);
they have imaginary names and commit imaginary actions, for the story
is not confined to, but only founded on, fact. If some readers of
Jacobite history find among their number some old friends with new
faces, this need not detract from the interest of others to whom all
the characters are new--actors in a drama drawn from the novelist's
fancy. To English readers it may have to be explained what the word
Sorner means--but the story makes this sufficiently plain. The novel
is of a lighter character than those previously written by this
author, and it is not without sensational elements. In spite of
adverse circumstances, grim characters, and all the sorrows of a lost
cause, it contrives to end happily. The scene is laid in Amsterdam.
BY KARIN MICHAELIS.
=THE DANGEROUS AGE.= Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
Translated from the Danish.
This book has been:--
(1) Sold to the extent of 100 editions in 6 months in Germany.
(2) Translated into 11 languages.
(3) Translated into French by the great MARCEL PREVOST, who says in
his introduction to the English Edition--"It is the feminine soul,
and the femininal soul of all that is revealed in these extraordinary
documents. Here indeed is a strange book."
=ELSIE LINDTNER.= A Sequel. Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
=THE GOVERNOR.= Crown 8vo. 3/6 net
BY IRENE MILLER.
=SEKHET.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] Sekhet deals with that topic of unwearying interest to
readers of romance--the adventures and struggles of an exquisitely
lovely woman upon whom the hand of Fate is laid heavily. From the
days of her beautiful girlhood when her Guardian himself proves her
tempter, Evarne has good reason to believe herself one of the victims
of "Sekhet," the ancient Egyptian Goddess of Love and Cruelty. Even
though the main theme of this story is the tragic outcome of a too
passionate love, portions of Evarne's experiences, such as those with
the bogus Theatrical manager, are full of humour, and throughout there
is a relieving lightness of touch in the writing. The book grows in
interest as it proceeds, and the final portion--a long duel between
Evarne and the evil genius of her life--is dramatic in the extreme.
The result remains uncertain till the last page or two, and though
decidedly ghastly is entirely original and unforeseen.
BY HECTOR H. MUNRO (Saki)
=THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] The keynote of this book is struck in an early chapter
where one of the school-masters at the school "Comus Bassington" is
sent to, remarks, "There are just a few, and Bassington is one of
them, who are Nature's highly-finished products. They are in the
schoolboy stage, and we who are supposed to be moulding raw material
are quite helpless when we come in contact with them." "Comus
Bassington" has no father, and a mother of a very uncommon type. After
leaving school he runs loose for a time in London, bear-led a little
by a clever young M.P., falls in love with the most wonderful match of
the season, gets deeply in debt, and even when at the absolute end of
his tether fascinates the reader with his store of spontaneous gaiety.
_Observer_--"ANYONE COULD DINE out for a year and pass for a wit after
reading this book if only the hosts and the guests would promise not
to read it too. This is one of the wittiest books, not only of the
year, but of the decade. It is not even only witty; it has a deepening
humanity towards the end that comes to a climax of really disturbing
pathos. It will be a dull public that can pass over such a book as
this."
=THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_English Review_--"A collection of short stories printed from various
newspapers and magazines. Every one was worth reprinting, and some,
notably 'The Great Weep' and 'Sredni Vashtar,' are very clever indeed.
Mr. Monro conceals pills of cleverness in a sugar-coating of wit--real
wit--and the result is a chuckle provoking book, except on the
occasions when its author was touched to grim realism and wrote his
mood."
BY LOUIS N. PARKER.
=POMANDER WALK.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Author of "Rosemary," etc. With numerous Illustrations by
J. Scott Williams.
[asterism] Novelised by the author of the delightful play of the
same name, which has met with so much success both in England and
the United States. A picture of one of the quaint out-of-the-way
corners of London of the olden times. The volume contains a tinted
frontispiece and title page, and numerous other charming illustrations.
_Daily Telegraph_--"Mr. Parker has turned a delightful comedy into
a still more delightful story ... in every way a charming, happy
romance, beautifully told and irresistibly sentimental."
BY JOHN PARKINSON.
=OTHER LAWS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] This book is distinctly the outcome of the latest
"intellectual" movement in novel-writing. The hero, Hawkins, is an
African explorer. During a holiday in England he falls in love with
and captivates Caroline Blackwood, a woman of strong personality.
Circumstances prevent him from entering upon a formal engagement, and
he departs again for Africa, without proposing marriage. Caroline
and Hawkins correspond fitfully for some time; but then a startling
combination of events causes Hawkins to penetrate further and further
into the interior; a native village is burned, and a report, based
apparently upon fact, is circulated of his death. Not until seven
months have elapsed is he able to return to England. He finds Caroline
married to a man who has found her money useful. Here the story,
strong and moving throughout, moves steadily to the close, describing
delicately and analytically the soul conflict of a man and a woman,
sundered and separate, with a yearning for each other's love.
BY F. INGLIS POWELL.
=THE SNAKE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] For countless generations the soul of Peasant India has
been steeped in weird, fantastic superstitions, some grotesque,
some loathsome, all strangely fascinating. Though the main theme of
this story is the unhappy love of a beautiful, evil woman, and the
brutal frankness with which she writes of her uncontrolled passions
in her diary, yet the whole tale hinges on some of the most gruesome
superstitions of the East. This book should appeal to all who take an
interest in the strange beliefs--not of the educated classes--but of
the simple-minded and ignorant peasants of Behar.
BY F. J. RANDALL.
=LOVE AND THE IRONMONGER.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
_Daily Telegraph_--"Since the gay days when Mr. F. Anstey was writing
his inimitable series of humourous novels, we can recall no book of
purely farcical imagination so full of excellent entertainment as
this first effort of Mr. F. J. Randall. 'Love and the Ironmonger' is
certain to be a success."
_Times_--"As diverting a comedy of errors as the reader is likely to
meet with for a considerable time."
Mr. CLEMENT SHORTER, in _The Sphere_--"I thank the author for a
delightful hour's amusement."
=THE BERMONDSEY TWIN.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] A humourous story of the reappearance of a twin brother,
who is supposed to be dead. Prosperous, respected, and well satisfied
with himself, a suburban tradesman is contemplating matrimony and the
realisation of his ambitions, when the twin brother appears. He is
thrown into a state of panic, for not only is his fortune thus reduced
by half and his marriage prospects endangered, but the twin is to all
appearance a disreputable character, whose existence threatens to
mar the tradesman's respectability. The good man's attempts to hide
this undesirable brother make amusing reading, and the pranks of the
unwelcome twin serve to complicate matters, for the brothers are so
much alike as to be easily mistaken one for the other. The new arrival
is really a man of integrity, his depravity being assumed as a joke.
Having played the farce out he is about to "confess," when the tables
are turned upon him by accident, and he is forced to pay heavily for
his fun in a series of humiliating adventures.
BY HUGH DE SÉLINCOURT.
=A FAIR HOUSE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Author of "A Boy's Marriage," "The Way Things Happen," "The
Strongest Plume."
[asterism] The outstanding idea of Mr. Hugh de Sélincourt's new novel
is the possibility of absolute love and confidence between father and
daughter. It is the main thread of the story and all the incidents
are subordinated to it. The book falls naturally into three sections.
The first opens with the birth of the daughter and the death of the
mother, the father's utter despair, until an idea comes to him, to
make the child his masterpiece and to see how much one human being can
mean to another. The second deals with the growth of the child from
five to fifteen. In the third, the girl becomes a woman. Her first
experience of love is unhappy and threatens to destroy the confidence
between father and daughter. But she is enabled to throw herself heart
and soul into stage-work, and in the excitement of work she finds
herself again. And the end of the book leaves her with the knowledge
that one love does not necessarily displace another, and that a
second, happier love has only strengthened the bond between her father
and herself.
BY ESSEX SMITH.
=WIND ON THE HEATH.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] No paragraph or descriptive note can give an idea of Miss
Essex Smith's story. It depends upon style, psychology, woodland
atmosphere, and more than anything else upon originality of outlook.
It will make a direct appeal to that public that has a taste for the
unusual. There is underlying it a tone of passion, the passion of a
fantastic Richard Jefferies.
BY GEORGE STEVENSON.
=TOPHAM'S FOLLY.= A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/-
[asterism] This novel has the curious charm of a tale that might
be told to you by your own mother or grandmother, a homeliness
and simplicity which is never overweighted by the writer's very
considerable skill in presenting his story. The scene is laid in a
small town in the West Riding of Yorkshire--fortunately there is
practically no dialect. What the narrator presents to us is supposed
to be the incidents of the lives of various members of the Topham
family and their kinsfolk seen largely through the eyes of Mary Ann.
Mary Ann's mother was a woman of good family, who in her early teens
eloped with her father's groom, and although in consequence of her
act she endured many hardships, she never repented it. When Mary Ann
was just growing into young womanhood she discovered an advertisement
in a newspaper enquiring for the heirs of Thomas Morton Bagster, and
pointed it out to her mother. They consult Mr. Topham, the lawyer,
who undertakes to make enquiries for them. Topham is at this time
very short of cash, and cannot complete a grand new house for himself
and his family, over whom he rules as a petty domestic tyrant. From
now on the financial fortunes of the Tophams prosper, and the house,
which has begun to be known as "Topham's Folly," is completed and
occupied. And in this tempestuous household lives Mary Ann as a humble
servant--a kind of angel in a print dress. When the youngest boy is
about twenty he suddenly discovers by the purest chance the whole
fraud upon which the family fortunes have been erected. There are
innumerable side issues, every one of them fascinatingly human and
delightfully told.
BY HERMANN SUDERMANN.
=THE SONG OF SONGS= (Das Hohe Lied). Crown 8vo. 6/-
A new Translation by Beatrice Marshall.
[asterism] The first English translation of this work, published
under the title of "The Song of Songs," proved to be too American for
the taste of the British public, and was eventually dropped. But it
was felt that the work was too great an one not to be represented in
the English language, and accordingly this entirely new translation
has been made, which it is hoped will fairly represent the wonderful
original without unduly offending the susceptibilities of the British
public. In this colossal novel, Sudermann has made a searching and
masterly study of feminine frailty. The character and career of
Lily Czepanck are depicted with such pitiless power and unerring
psychological insight, that the portrait would be almost intolerable
in its realism, if it were not for its touches of humour and
tenderness. In these pages too may be found some of Sudermann's most
characteristic and charming passages descriptive of country life,
while his pictures of Berlin Society in all its phases, the glimpses
he gives us into what goes on beneath the tinsel, spick and span
surface of the great modern capital are drawn with Tolstoyan vigour
and colour.
=THE INDIAN LILY= and other Stories. Crown 8vo. 6/-
Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn, M.A.
[asterism] A series of characteristic stories by the great German
Master which exhibit his art in every phase. Sudermann is chiefly
known in this country as a writer of novels and of plays, but this
volume will place him in a new light for English readers--as a writer
of short stories of the first rank. In fact he may with justice be
termed the German Maupassant.
BY SIR FRANK SWETTENHAM.
=ALSO AND PERHAPS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Author of "Unaddressed Letters," "British Malaya," etc.
_Punch_--"'Dodo Island' contains a long quotation of such genuine
humour that to have rescued it is an achievement in itself. Although
in this sketch Sir Frank apologises almost humbly for mentioning
history in 'Tamarin' and 'Ile de la Passe,' he becomes an historian
unashamed, and a most attractive one. 'The Kris Incarnadine' provided
me with a more grizzly sensation than I have been able to conjure up
for many years, and 'Disbelief in the Unseen' ought to be read aloud
daily to those obnoxious people who cannot bring themselves to believe
in anything that does not take place within a stone's throw of their
parish pump."
BY MARCELLE TINAYRE.
=THE SHADOW OF LOVE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-
Translated from the French by A. R. Allinson, M.A.
[asterism] Of the newer French novelists Marcelle Tinayre is perhaps
the best known. Her work has been crowned by the French Academy, and
she possesses a very large public in Europe and in America. The story
deals with a girl's love and a heroic sacrifice dictated by love.
"The Shadow of Love" is a book of extraordinary power, uncompromising
in its delineation of certain hard, some might say repulsive facts
of life, yet instinct all through with an exquisitely tender and
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NOVELS BY W. J. LOCKE.
DERELICTS.
THE USURPER.
WHERE LOVE IS.
THE WHITE DOVE.
THE MORALS OF MARCUS ORDEYNE.
AT THE GATE OF SAMARIA.
IDOLS.
A STUDY IN SHADOWS.
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Transcriber's Notes
Variations in spelling and punctuation are as in the original except in
obvious cases of typographical error.
Variations in hyphenation within the body of the text have been
rationalised, however variations within the Catalogue have been retained.
Italics are represented thus _italics_ and underlining thus =underline=.
The original did not include a Table of Contents, this has been added.
End of Project Gutenberg's Cornish Saints and Sinners, by J. Henry Harris