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I am grateful for the wonderful thrills ‘The Dop Doctor’ has given me. It is a novel among a thousand.”—The Daily Express.THE WEAKER VESSELby E. F. BENSON6/-A really good “Benson novel” than which no more can be said.Author ofJUGGERNAUT*THE LUCK OF THE VAILS*ACCOUNT RENDERED*MAMMON & CO.AN ACT IN A BACKWATER*PAUL*THE ANGEL OF PAINTHE PRINCESS SOPHIA*THE BOOK OF MONTHS*A REAPING*THE CHALLONERSTHE RELENTLESS CITY*THE CLIMBER*SCARLET AND HYSSOPTHE HOUSE OF DEFENCE*SHEAVES*THE IMAGE IN THE SANDEach Crn. 8vo. Price 6/-.Those volumes marked * can also be obtained in the Two Shilling net Edition (Heinemann’s Two Shilling Novels), uniformly bound, with coloured picture wrapper and frontispiece, and also the following volumesTHE OSBORNESTHE VINTAGEDODO⁂ “The Book of Months” and “A Reaping” form one volume in this Edition.THE PATRICIANby JOHN GALSWORTHY6/-“I cannot find better praise in which to sum up Mr. Galsworthy’s ‘Patrician’ than the one that it is ‘deeply interesting’. Indeed, there is a vividness about the whole story which is absolutely fascinating. It lingers in the memory long, long after other novels of a less distinguished but more thrilling nature have been completely forgotten.”—The Tatler.Author ofTHE COUNTRY HOUSEFRATERNITYA MOTLEYTHE ISLAND PHARISEESTHE MAN OF PROPERTYTHE INN OFTRANQUILITYMINNAby KARL GJELLERUP6/-A charming idyllic love story set in the beautiful “Saxon Switzerland.” A simpler, sweeter theme than the author’s last book, but written with the same distinction of style and thought.By THE SAME AUTHOR.THE PILGRIM KAMANITA“Behind the imagination which floats ‘The Pilgrim Kamanita’ above the common there is a solid background of historical study which enables Mr. Gjellerup to make his characters and his scenes real.He has managed to catch the atmosphere of ancient India, and so wrap it about every place and act and speech in the story that the illusion and spell are on us from beginning to end.... It is a real romance, full of life and colour—and such colour as only India, in the full sensuous splendour of Hindu rites, can offer.... It is a beautiful allegory of the higher life, full of suggestion and even inspiration for those who have ears to hear. Mr. Gjellerup is to be congratulated not only on a noble idea, most skilfully presented, but also upon a translator who hardly ever lets us feel that we are not reading the original.”—Times.A LIKELY STORYby WILLIAM DE MORGAN6/-“How delightful it all is.... Mr. De Morgan is worth having for himself alone and for the point of view of the world that he shows us.”—Standard.“The book is great fun.... Much amusement, much cause for sly chuckling throughout the book.... I have enjoyed every line of it.”—T.P.’s Weekly.“You cannot resist the charm of the narrator, who makes you feel as if you were listening to an improvisation.”—The Spectator.Author ofJOSEPH VANCEALICE FOR SHORTAN AFFAIR OF DISHONOURIT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAINSOMEHOW GOODSIR GUY AND LADY RANNARDby H. N. DICKINSON6/-Author of “Keddy,” etc.“Extraordinarilyclever indeed in this study. Apart from the absorbing interest of the two central characters, the book is full of able and suggestive studies. The whole book is one of the most remarkable that a young man has produced for many a long year.”—Morning Post.THE MAGNATEby ROBERT ELSON6/-“It is a story that every reader will recommend after reading it—and with excellent reason, for it is fresh, original, and powerfully written.”—Daily Graphic.“Mr. Elson has what Dickens and Thackeray and other great writers of fiction have. He has a personality. ‘The Magnate’ is quite the freshest story that we have read for a long time. We have no hesitation in recommending it to all persons who like a novel which is full of thought and detail and brims over with optimism.”—Daily Mail.THE SECRET GARDENby Mrs. HODGSON BURNETT6/-Author of “The Shuttle,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” etc.Large Cr. 8vo, with coloured Illustrations by CHARLES ROBINSON.“The treatment by the authoress is as skilled in technique and vivid in human interest as the reader would expect from her.... The illustrations by Mr. Charles Robinson are the work of an artist rarely gifted.”—Daily Telegraph.HE WHO PASSEDTo M. L. G. (Anon.)6/-“As a story, it is one of the most enthralling I have read for a long time.... Six—seven o’clock struck—half-past-seven—and yet this extraordinary narrative of a woman’s life held me absolutely enthralled.... I forgot the weather; I forgot my own grievances; I forgot everything, in fact, under the spell of this wonderful book.... In fact the whole book bears the stamp of reality from cover to cover. There is hardly a false or strained note in it. It is the ruthless study of a woman’s life.... If it is not the novel of the season, the season is not likely to give us anything much better.”—The Tatler.Ready shortly, by the same author: “The Life Mask.”LESS THAN THE DUSTby MARY AGNES HAMILTON6/-“There is something delightfully fresh in the method of treatment, something that seems to mark the passing of another milestone in the work of the literary woman. Literary is the right word, for Miss Hamilton’s style bears the stamp of a natural purity of diction, while her analysis of emotion and character is keen without being over-protracted.”—Daily Telegraph.KING ERRANTby FLORA ANNIE STEEL6/-Author of “On the Face of the Waters,” etc.“Mrs. Steel has made for herself a high reputation by the excellence of her Indian novels; in the vividness of the Oriental picture which it presents her ‘King Errant’ stands on quite as high a level as her other books.“Historically accurate and sufficiently absorbing, and the results of Mrs. Steel’s careful study of his character is that Baber stands out from the mists of nearly four centuries as a very real and attractive person.”—Times.Author ofA PRINCE OF DREAMERSTHE FLOWER OF FORGIVENESSFROM THE FIVE RIVERSTHE HOSTS OF THE LORDIN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF GODIN THE PERMANENT WAYMISS STUART’S LEGACYON THE FACE OF THE WATERSTHE POTTER’S THUMBRED ROWANSA SOVEREIGN REMEDYVOICES IN THE NIGHTand other stories.ESSENCE OF HONEYMOONby H. PERRY ROBINSON6/-“Mr. Perry Robinson has never written a more fascinating and delightful little story than ‘Essence of Honeymoon’.... Mr. Perry Robinson says exactly the right thing.... An inimitable piece of sporting fun, admirably carried out, and we can recommend no better literature for all young people about to be married, or even after they have taken that sobering step, than Mr. Perry Robinson’s delightful pages.”—The Field.A PRISON WITHOUT A WALLby RALPH STRAUS6/-Author of “The Scandalous Mr. Waldo.”“This beautiful, whimsical, tragic biography. We are lost in admiration of Mr. Straus’ skill to portray the quintessential don. His pictures of combination room etiquette are literally to the life. But be knows also a wider world, and his touch is sure in drawing the eccentric great lady, the old-school politician, the passionate mondaine, and the fashionable charlatan.... This perfectly told story.”—Daily Mail.JOHN CHRISTOPHER:I.Dawn and Morning.II.Storm and Stress.III.John Christopher in Paris.IV.The Journey’s End.by ROMAIN ROLLANDeach 6/-Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. Author of “Little Brother,” etc.“To most readers he will be a revelation, a new interest in their lives. Take the book up where you will, and you feel interested at once. You can read it and re-read it. It never wearies nor grows irritating.”—The Daily Telegraph.“His English exercises so easy an effect that the reader has never for an instant the irritating sense of missing beauties through the inadequacies of a borrowed language; we have also compared it in many cases with the original and found it remarkably accurate. Readers may then be assured that they will lose but little of Mr. Rolland’s beauty and wisdom, even though they are unable to read him in the original, and Mr. Cannan is to be warmly congratulated.”—The Standard.“A noble piece of work, which must, without any doubt whatever, ultimately receive the praise and attention which it so undoubtedly merits.... There is hardly a single book more illustrative, more informing and more inspiring ... than M. Romain Rolland’s creative work, ‘John Christopher’.”—Extract from descriptive review inThe Daily Telegraph.WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO...?by ELIZABETH ROBINSAuthor of “Come and Find Me,” etc.“She has, indeed, in this fine novel, splendidly fulfilled the high purpose that inspired her to draw attention to a social danger and existing evil, no less horrible than real.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“Never, not even when Charles Reade, making robust romance from Blue books, was denouncing our prison and madhouse systems, has such determined and forceful use been made of fiction for the purpose of undoing a grevious social evil.”—The Daily Chronicle.MOLYNEUX OF MAYFAIRby DUNCAN SCHWANNAuthor of “The Book of a Bachelor,” etc.“This the third of Mr. Schwann’s novels, is by a very long way his best. Mr. Schwann has beyond question written a book that may be termed light and frivolous, if you wish, but that nevertheless, as a picture of a certain section of modern London Society, has its more important side to it. In deftness, interest, and human nature it shows a great advance on ‘The Book of a Bachelor.’”—Standard.BY THE SAME AUTHORTHE MAGIC OF THE HILL“The book is in fact, to be read for its light-hearted pictures of modern Paris, Paris seen with eyes of someone who knows it intimately and loves it. Mr. Schwann has more than a little of Thackeray’s absorbing interest in minor characters, minor events, and minor problems. The book proves that Mr. Schwann, as a student of life, has the right touch and the right humour.”—The Standard.ZULEIKA DOBSONby MAX BEERBOHM6/-Author of “A Christmas Garland,” etc.“In a word, he has achieved a masterpiece. He has written a book in which wit and invention never flag: a book, the writing of which he has enjoyed so tremendously that the reader enjoys it with him, as it were, personally, a book that is all of a piece, never halts, never drops; a book that is a sheer delight from cover to cover.”—Alfred Sutton inThe Daily Mail.THE DEVOURERSby ANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES6/-“The book is delightfully written.... Mrs. Chartres has humour, she has style, she has pathos.”—The Standard.“It is a great feat for any author to succeed in interesting her readers in three successive generations of heroines within the covers of a single novel without diminution of sympathy; yet that feat has been accomplished in ‘The Devourers’ ... it is an irresistible story and full of sympathetic charm.”—The Evening Standard.LOVE’S PILGRIMAGEby UPTON SINCLAIR6/-Author of “The Jungle,” “King Midas,” etc.“Mr. Upton Sinclair has written around such a great subject with such marvellous intuition and skill, and has presented so many problems which are engaging general attention, that all feminists and theorists upon social subjects will be eager to read his latest book.”—Daily Telegraph.PASSION FRUITby E. C. VIVIAN6/-“The interest all through depends mainly upon the male characters, who are drawn with unusual vigour and certainty.... The book as a whole is marked by a breadth of handling which sets it apart from the average novel.”—Morning Post.“‘Passion Fruit’ is the work of a past-master in story telling.”—Sheffield Independent.BORROWERS OF FORTUNEby JESSIE LECKIE HERBERTSON6/-Author of “Young Life,” etc.A novel of happier vein than has sometimes been the case with Miss Herbertson. Her lighter heart is as infectious as her gravity was impressive.THE DECLENSION OF HENRY D’ALBIACby V. GOLDIE6/-Author of “Nigel Thomson,” and “Majorie Stevens.”“It is by far the best and the liveliest of the suffragist stories we have come across, though by the way, the particular propaganda is by no means the chief object of the book. Indeed, propaganda of any kind is in its pages always subordinate to the author’s abundant and vivacious sense of humour.”—Manchester Guardian.THE NOVELS OF HALL CAINE(of which over 3 million copies have been sold).“These volumes are in every way a pleasure to read. Of living authors, Mr. Hall Caine must certainly sway as multitudinous a following as any living man. A novel from his pen has become indeed for England and America something of an international event.”—Times.Author ofTHE BONDMANCAPT’NDAVY’SHONEYMOONMY STORYTHE WHITE PROPHETTHE ETERNAL CITYTHE MANXMANTHE PRODIGAL SONTHE SCAPEGOATTHE CHRISTIANA PORTENTOUS HISTORYby ALFRED TENNYSON6/-“With considerable skill we are shown how ignorant and conventional prejudice of all the normal inhabitants of the village are roused against the poor, good giant, only because he is greater than they are. Mr. Tennyson gives a vivid and unpleasant picture of prejudice and instinctive cruelty. In Mr. Tennyson we have a new novelist with something real and weighty to say.”—Westminster Gazette.THE MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN KETTLEby C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE6/-Author of “Captain Kettle,” etc.“When one has once opened ‘The Marriage of Kettle’ it is impossible to put it down unfinished. Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne has such a vivid pen and seems so intimately acquainted with the sea and seafaring life, and introduces us to so many humorous and realistic characters, that we feel as if we had actually sailed with the great Kettle on his adventurous voyages, and had shared his hairbreadth escapes.”—Evening Standard and St. James’s Gazette.TALES OF THE UNEASYby VIOLET HUNT6/-Author of “The Wife of Altamont.”“Miss Violet Hunt is eminently skilful, albeit a relentless ‘raconteuse’, the light of her inspiration burns with a hard gemlike flame. Miss Hunt has gained greatly in craftsmanship during the last few years: her style is excellent, her grip of subjects sure, and her insight exceptionally clear and sane.”—The Athenæum.ESTHERby AGNES E. JACOMB6/-“The book is well written and the characters are well drawn.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“Miss Jacomb has written in ‘Esther’ a very interesting novel; its situations are original, and the characters are sufficiently individual to make a convincing whole....”—Morning Post.THE GETTING OF WISDOMby HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON6/-Author of “Maurice Guest.”“An extraordinarily intimate and sympathetic study of a little girl and of the influence school-life has upon her gives unusual charm and interest to this story.”—Daily Mail.“‘Stalky for Girls’ might very well be the sub-title of Mr. Richardson’s story. What ‘Stalky & Co.’ did for the boy, ‘The Getting of Wisdom’ tries to do for the girl. It is a bright, vivid piece of character writing.”—Saturday Review.BURNING DAYLIGHTby JACK LONDON6/-Author of “The Call of the Wild,” “Martin Eden,” etc.“I have long regarded the stories of Mr. Jack London as a welcome relief from the dulness of most contemporary fiction, and his latest, ‘Burning Daylight,’ did not disappoint me in this respect. No one who has read the author’s previous works will need to be told with what wonderful skill the atmosphere of this grim and unfriendly land is conveyed. There is one chapter, especially, which tells how, for a bet, Daylight raced two thousand miles over an unbroken trail of ice in sixty days that seems to me absolutely the best piece of descriptive writing of its kind that ever I read.”—Punch.THE WHITE PEACOCKby D. H. LAWRENCE6/-“A book of real distinction, both of style and thought. Many of the descriptive passages have an almost lyrical charm, and the characterisation is, generally speaking, deft and life-like. ‘The White Peacock’ is a book not only worth reading but worth reckoning with, for we are inclined to think that its author has come to stay.”—Morning Post.LOVE LIKE THE SEAby J. E. PATTERSON6/-Author of “Tillers of the Soil,” etc.“He tells his story to the sound of wind and waves, and if now and again his ardour for and knowledge of the sea leads him aside from the purpose of his scheme, the digressions are so admirably done that the book would lose from the point of view of literary interest were they omitted.... The three principal characters are well drawn (there are minor ones also excellently delineated).”—The Globe.ADNAM’S ORCHARDby SARAH GRAND6/-Author ofTHE HEAVENLY TWINSIDEALATHE BETH BOOKOUR MANIFOLD NATUREetc., etc.“Admirers of Mrs. Grand will be glad to find in her new book ‘Adnam’s Orchard’ the same vivacity and the same provocative spirit that gave its wide currency to her ‘Heavenly Twins,’ Both qualities sustain and inspire her to the last page of the six hundred and thirty which make up her latest novel.”—Morning Post.THE REWARD OF VIRTUEby AMBER REEVES6/-“There is cleverness enough and to spare, but it is ... a spontaneous cleverness, innate, not laboriously acquired.... The dialogue ... is so natural, so unaffected, that it is quite possible to read it without noticing the high artistic quality of it.... For a first novel Miss Reeves’s is a remarkable achievement; it would be a distinct achievement even were it not a first novel.”—Daily Chronicle.THE COST OF ITby ELEANOR MORDAUNT6/-Author of “The Garden of Contentment.”“Packed full of character and real life.... The character of the heroine is admirably drawn upon quite unconventional lines ... the situation is worked out with remarkable vigour and intensity. This is a fine, powerful and impressive novel, triumphing over inadequacies of literary training by sheer force of sincerity and of glowing human sentiment.”—Daily Telegraph.A RUNAWAY RINGby Mrs. HENRY E. DUDENEY6/-Author of “Maids’ Money,” “The Orchard Thief,” “A Large Room,” etc.“Her previous work has been good, but in ‘A Runaway Ring’ she has surpassed her best previous efforts, and it is no easy matter to do her sufficient honour. To make a romance from life’s ‘fedious afternoon’ without being simply sentimental is a task which scarcely any accomplish, and so, when the thing is done, it can only be judged on its own merits and without comparison.”—The Standard.THE ADJUSTMENTby MARGUERITE BRYANT6/-Author of “Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker,” etc.“‘The Adjustment’ ... is a notable novel.”—Westminster Gazette.“It is an admirable book, of an original and impressive nature, the authoress well understands the portrayal of human passions, whether love or hate, and makes her characters singularly attractive.... Many excellent situations add to the general interest.... We advise all who enjoy a thoroughly good novel to add ‘The Adjustment’ to their library list.”—The Globe.THE HIPPODROMEby RACHEL HAYWARD6/-Illustrated by CLARA WATERS.A brightly coloured story, the scene of which is laid in Barcelona. A young Irish girl who is dependent on herself for a means of subsistence becomes a “star” turn at a circus. While in the back-waters of that existence she falls in with certain gentlemen of international importance. She becomes their dupe and slave and passes through many adventures. But there is a way of escape and she takes it. Decidedly a book of swift movement and keen excitement.THE NOVELS OF LEO TOLSTOYTranslated by CONSTANCE GARNETTANNAKARENINA2/6 netWAR AND PEACE3/6 net“Mrs. Garnett’s translations from the Russian are always distinguished by most careful accuracy and a fine literary flavour. In this new rendering of Tolstoy she has surpassed herself.”—The Bookman.“Mrs. Garnett’s translation has all the ease and vigour which Matthew Arnold found in French versions of Russian novels and missed in English. She is indeed so successful that, but for the names, one might easily forget he was reading a foreign author.”—The Contemporary Review.THE NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKYTranslated by CONSTANCE GARNETT“By the genius of Dostoevsky you are always in the presence of living, passionate characters. They are not puppets, they are not acting to keep the plot in motion. They are men and women—I should say you can hear them breathe—irresistibly moving to their appointed ends.”—Evening News.I.THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV3/6 net“No other writer perhaps has given to materials so ugly, not merely strength and life, but grave pathos and tragic beauty.”—Times.II. THE IDIOTReady Shortly:Now for the first time translated in full from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT, translator of the Novels of TURGENEV and TOLSTOY.21 BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, W.C.ColophonAvailabilityThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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MR. WILLIAM HEINEMANN’SNEWFICTIONBETWEEN TWO THIEVESby RICHARD DEHAN (2nd Impression)6/-Author of “The Dop Doctor,” etc.“The book is really an amazing piece of work. Its abounding energy, its grip on our attention, its biting humour, its strong, if sometimes lurid word painting have an effect of richness and fullness of teeming life, that sweeps one with it. What an ample chance for praise and whole hearted enjoyment. The thing unrols with a vividness that never fails.”—Daily News and Leader.BY THE SAME AUTHORTHE DOP DOCTOR[Now in its 13th Edition.“Pulsatingly real—gloomy, tragic, humorous, dignified, real. The cruelty of battle, the depth of disgusting villainy, the struggles of great souls, the irony of coincidence are all in its pages.... Who touches this book touches a man. I am grateful for the wonderful thrills ‘The Dop Doctor’ has given me. It is a novel among a thousand.”—The Daily Express.THE WEAKER VESSELby E. F. BENSON6/-A really good “Benson novel” than which no more can be said.Author ofJUGGERNAUT*THE LUCK OF THE VAILS*ACCOUNT RENDERED*MAMMON & CO.AN ACT IN A BACKWATER*PAUL*THE ANGEL OF PAINTHE PRINCESS SOPHIA*THE BOOK OF MONTHS*A REAPING*THE CHALLONERSTHE RELENTLESS CITY*THE CLIMBER*SCARLET AND HYSSOPTHE HOUSE OF DEFENCE*SHEAVES*THE IMAGE IN THE SANDEach Crn. 8vo. Price 6/-.Those volumes marked * can also be obtained in the Two Shilling net Edition (Heinemann’s Two Shilling Novels), uniformly bound, with coloured picture wrapper and frontispiece, and also the following volumesTHE OSBORNESTHE VINTAGEDODO⁂ “The Book of Months” and “A Reaping” form one volume in this Edition.THE PATRICIANby JOHN GALSWORTHY6/-“I cannot find better praise in which to sum up Mr. Galsworthy’s ‘Patrician’ than the one that it is ‘deeply interesting’. Indeed, there is a vividness about the whole story which is absolutely fascinating. It lingers in the memory long, long after other novels of a less distinguished but more thrilling nature have been completely forgotten.”—The Tatler.Author ofTHE COUNTRY HOUSEFRATERNITYA MOTLEYTHE ISLAND PHARISEESTHE MAN OF PROPERTYTHE INN OFTRANQUILITYMINNAby KARL GJELLERUP6/-A charming idyllic love story set in the beautiful “Saxon Switzerland.” A simpler, sweeter theme than the author’s last book, but written with the same distinction of style and thought.By THE SAME AUTHOR.THE PILGRIM KAMANITA“Behind the imagination which floats ‘The Pilgrim Kamanita’ above the common there is a solid background of historical study which enables Mr. Gjellerup to make his characters and his scenes real.He has managed to catch the atmosphere of ancient India, and so wrap it about every place and act and speech in the story that the illusion and spell are on us from beginning to end.... It is a real romance, full of life and colour—and such colour as only India, in the full sensuous splendour of Hindu rites, can offer.... It is a beautiful allegory of the higher life, full of suggestion and even inspiration for those who have ears to hear. Mr. Gjellerup is to be congratulated not only on a noble idea, most skilfully presented, but also upon a translator who hardly ever lets us feel that we are not reading the original.”—Times.A LIKELY STORYby WILLIAM DE MORGAN6/-“How delightful it all is.... Mr. De Morgan is worth having for himself alone and for the point of view of the world that he shows us.”—Standard.“The book is great fun.... Much amusement, much cause for sly chuckling throughout the book.... I have enjoyed every line of it.”—T.P.’s Weekly.“You cannot resist the charm of the narrator, who makes you feel as if you were listening to an improvisation.”—The Spectator.Author ofJOSEPH VANCEALICE FOR SHORTAN AFFAIR OF DISHONOURIT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAINSOMEHOW GOODSIR GUY AND LADY RANNARDby H. N. DICKINSON6/-Author of “Keddy,” etc.“Extraordinarilyclever indeed in this study. Apart from the absorbing interest of the two central characters, the book is full of able and suggestive studies. The whole book is one of the most remarkable that a young man has produced for many a long year.”—Morning Post.THE MAGNATEby ROBERT ELSON6/-“It is a story that every reader will recommend after reading it—and with excellent reason, for it is fresh, original, and powerfully written.”—Daily Graphic.“Mr. Elson has what Dickens and Thackeray and other great writers of fiction have. He has a personality. ‘The Magnate’ is quite the freshest story that we have read for a long time. We have no hesitation in recommending it to all persons who like a novel which is full of thought and detail and brims over with optimism.”—Daily Mail.THE SECRET GARDENby Mrs. HODGSON BURNETT6/-Author of “The Shuttle,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” etc.Large Cr. 8vo, with coloured Illustrations by CHARLES ROBINSON.“The treatment by the authoress is as skilled in technique and vivid in human interest as the reader would expect from her.... The illustrations by Mr. Charles Robinson are the work of an artist rarely gifted.”—Daily Telegraph.HE WHO PASSEDTo M. L. G. (Anon.)6/-“As a story, it is one of the most enthralling I have read for a long time.... Six—seven o’clock struck—half-past-seven—and yet this extraordinary narrative of a woman’s life held me absolutely enthralled.... I forgot the weather; I forgot my own grievances; I forgot everything, in fact, under the spell of this wonderful book.... In fact the whole book bears the stamp of reality from cover to cover. There is hardly a false or strained note in it. It is the ruthless study of a woman’s life.... If it is not the novel of the season, the season is not likely to give us anything much better.”—The Tatler.Ready shortly, by the same author: “The Life Mask.”LESS THAN THE DUSTby MARY AGNES HAMILTON6/-“There is something delightfully fresh in the method of treatment, something that seems to mark the passing of another milestone in the work of the literary woman. Literary is the right word, for Miss Hamilton’s style bears the stamp of a natural purity of diction, while her analysis of emotion and character is keen without being over-protracted.”—Daily Telegraph.KING ERRANTby FLORA ANNIE STEEL6/-Author of “On the Face of the Waters,” etc.“Mrs. Steel has made for herself a high reputation by the excellence of her Indian novels; in the vividness of the Oriental picture which it presents her ‘King Errant’ stands on quite as high a level as her other books.“Historically accurate and sufficiently absorbing, and the results of Mrs. Steel’s careful study of his character is that Baber stands out from the mists of nearly four centuries as a very real and attractive person.”—Times.Author ofA PRINCE OF DREAMERSTHE FLOWER OF FORGIVENESSFROM THE FIVE RIVERSTHE HOSTS OF THE LORDIN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF GODIN THE PERMANENT WAYMISS STUART’S LEGACYON THE FACE OF THE WATERSTHE POTTER’S THUMBRED ROWANSA SOVEREIGN REMEDYVOICES IN THE NIGHTand other stories.ESSENCE OF HONEYMOONby H. PERRY ROBINSON6/-“Mr. Perry Robinson has never written a more fascinating and delightful little story than ‘Essence of Honeymoon’.... Mr. Perry Robinson says exactly the right thing.... An inimitable piece of sporting fun, admirably carried out, and we can recommend no better literature for all young people about to be married, or even after they have taken that sobering step, than Mr. Perry Robinson’s delightful pages.”—The Field.A PRISON WITHOUT A WALLby RALPH STRAUS6/-Author of “The Scandalous Mr. Waldo.”“This beautiful, whimsical, tragic biography. We are lost in admiration of Mr. Straus’ skill to portray the quintessential don. His pictures of combination room etiquette are literally to the life. But be knows also a wider world, and his touch is sure in drawing the eccentric great lady, the old-school politician, the passionate mondaine, and the fashionable charlatan.... This perfectly told story.”—Daily Mail.JOHN CHRISTOPHER:I.Dawn and Morning.II.Storm and Stress.III.John Christopher in Paris.IV.The Journey’s End.by ROMAIN ROLLANDeach 6/-Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. Author of “Little Brother,” etc.“To most readers he will be a revelation, a new interest in their lives. Take the book up where you will, and you feel interested at once. You can read it and re-read it. It never wearies nor grows irritating.”—The Daily Telegraph.“His English exercises so easy an effect that the reader has never for an instant the irritating sense of missing beauties through the inadequacies of a borrowed language; we have also compared it in many cases with the original and found it remarkably accurate. Readers may then be assured that they will lose but little of Mr. Rolland’s beauty and wisdom, even though they are unable to read him in the original, and Mr. Cannan is to be warmly congratulated.”—The Standard.“A noble piece of work, which must, without any doubt whatever, ultimately receive the praise and attention which it so undoubtedly merits.... There is hardly a single book more illustrative, more informing and more inspiring ... than M. Romain Rolland’s creative work, ‘John Christopher’.”—Extract from descriptive review inThe Daily Telegraph.WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO...?by ELIZABETH ROBINSAuthor of “Come and Find Me,” etc.“She has, indeed, in this fine novel, splendidly fulfilled the high purpose that inspired her to draw attention to a social danger and existing evil, no less horrible than real.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“Never, not even when Charles Reade, making robust romance from Blue books, was denouncing our prison and madhouse systems, has such determined and forceful use been made of fiction for the purpose of undoing a grevious social evil.”—The Daily Chronicle.MOLYNEUX OF MAYFAIRby DUNCAN SCHWANNAuthor of “The Book of a Bachelor,” etc.“This the third of Mr. Schwann’s novels, is by a very long way his best. Mr. Schwann has beyond question written a book that may be termed light and frivolous, if you wish, but that nevertheless, as a picture of a certain section of modern London Society, has its more important side to it. In deftness, interest, and human nature it shows a great advance on ‘The Book of a Bachelor.’”—Standard.BY THE SAME AUTHORTHE MAGIC OF THE HILL“The book is in fact, to be read for its light-hearted pictures of modern Paris, Paris seen with eyes of someone who knows it intimately and loves it. Mr. Schwann has more than a little of Thackeray’s absorbing interest in minor characters, minor events, and minor problems. The book proves that Mr. Schwann, as a student of life, has the right touch and the right humour.”—The Standard.ZULEIKA DOBSONby MAX BEERBOHM6/-Author of “A Christmas Garland,” etc.“In a word, he has achieved a masterpiece. He has written a book in which wit and invention never flag: a book, the writing of which he has enjoyed so tremendously that the reader enjoys it with him, as it were, personally, a book that is all of a piece, never halts, never drops; a book that is a sheer delight from cover to cover.”—Alfred Sutton inThe Daily Mail.THE DEVOURERSby ANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES6/-“The book is delightfully written.... Mrs. Chartres has humour, she has style, she has pathos.”—The Standard.“It is a great feat for any author to succeed in interesting her readers in three successive generations of heroines within the covers of a single novel without diminution of sympathy; yet that feat has been accomplished in ‘The Devourers’ ... it is an irresistible story and full of sympathetic charm.”—The Evening Standard.LOVE’S PILGRIMAGEby UPTON SINCLAIR6/-Author of “The Jungle,” “King Midas,” etc.“Mr. Upton Sinclair has written around such a great subject with such marvellous intuition and skill, and has presented so many problems which are engaging general attention, that all feminists and theorists upon social subjects will be eager to read his latest book.”—Daily Telegraph.PASSION FRUITby E. C. VIVIAN6/-“The interest all through depends mainly upon the male characters, who are drawn with unusual vigour and certainty.... The book as a whole is marked by a breadth of handling which sets it apart from the average novel.”—Morning Post.“‘Passion Fruit’ is the work of a past-master in story telling.”—Sheffield Independent.BORROWERS OF FORTUNEby JESSIE LECKIE HERBERTSON6/-Author of “Young Life,” etc.A novel of happier vein than has sometimes been the case with Miss Herbertson. Her lighter heart is as infectious as her gravity was impressive.THE DECLENSION OF HENRY D’ALBIACby V. GOLDIE6/-Author of “Nigel Thomson,” and “Majorie Stevens.”“It is by far the best and the liveliest of the suffragist stories we have come across, though by the way, the particular propaganda is by no means the chief object of the book. Indeed, propaganda of any kind is in its pages always subordinate to the author’s abundant and vivacious sense of humour.”—Manchester Guardian.THE NOVELS OF HALL CAINE(of which over 3 million copies have been sold).“These volumes are in every way a pleasure to read. Of living authors, Mr. Hall Caine must certainly sway as multitudinous a following as any living man. A novel from his pen has become indeed for England and America something of an international event.”—Times.Author ofTHE BONDMANCAPT’NDAVY’SHONEYMOONMY STORYTHE WHITE PROPHETTHE ETERNAL CITYTHE MANXMANTHE PRODIGAL SONTHE SCAPEGOATTHE CHRISTIANA PORTENTOUS HISTORYby ALFRED TENNYSON6/-“With considerable skill we are shown how ignorant and conventional prejudice of all the normal inhabitants of the village are roused against the poor, good giant, only because he is greater than they are. Mr. Tennyson gives a vivid and unpleasant picture of prejudice and instinctive cruelty. In Mr. Tennyson we have a new novelist with something real and weighty to say.”—Westminster Gazette.THE MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN KETTLEby C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE6/-Author of “Captain Kettle,” etc.“When one has once opened ‘The Marriage of Kettle’ it is impossible to put it down unfinished. Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne has such a vivid pen and seems so intimately acquainted with the sea and seafaring life, and introduces us to so many humorous and realistic characters, that we feel as if we had actually sailed with the great Kettle on his adventurous voyages, and had shared his hairbreadth escapes.”—Evening Standard and St. James’s Gazette.TALES OF THE UNEASYby VIOLET HUNT6/-Author of “The Wife of Altamont.”“Miss Violet Hunt is eminently skilful, albeit a relentless ‘raconteuse’, the light of her inspiration burns with a hard gemlike flame. Miss Hunt has gained greatly in craftsmanship during the last few years: her style is excellent, her grip of subjects sure, and her insight exceptionally clear and sane.”—The Athenæum.ESTHERby AGNES E. JACOMB6/-“The book is well written and the characters are well drawn.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“Miss Jacomb has written in ‘Esther’ a very interesting novel; its situations are original, and the characters are sufficiently individual to make a convincing whole....”—Morning Post.THE GETTING OF WISDOMby HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON6/-Author of “Maurice Guest.”“An extraordinarily intimate and sympathetic study of a little girl and of the influence school-life has upon her gives unusual charm and interest to this story.”—Daily Mail.“‘Stalky for Girls’ might very well be the sub-title of Mr. Richardson’s story. What ‘Stalky & Co.’ did for the boy, ‘The Getting of Wisdom’ tries to do for the girl. It is a bright, vivid piece of character writing.”—Saturday Review.BURNING DAYLIGHTby JACK LONDON6/-Author of “The Call of the Wild,” “Martin Eden,” etc.“I have long regarded the stories of Mr. Jack London as a welcome relief from the dulness of most contemporary fiction, and his latest, ‘Burning Daylight,’ did not disappoint me in this respect. No one who has read the author’s previous works will need to be told with what wonderful skill the atmosphere of this grim and unfriendly land is conveyed. There is one chapter, especially, which tells how, for a bet, Daylight raced two thousand miles over an unbroken trail of ice in sixty days that seems to me absolutely the best piece of descriptive writing of its kind that ever I read.”—Punch.THE WHITE PEACOCKby D. H. LAWRENCE6/-“A book of real distinction, both of style and thought. Many of the descriptive passages have an almost lyrical charm, and the characterisation is, generally speaking, deft and life-like. ‘The White Peacock’ is a book not only worth reading but worth reckoning with, for we are inclined to think that its author has come to stay.”—Morning Post.LOVE LIKE THE SEAby J. E. PATTERSON6/-Author of “Tillers of the Soil,” etc.“He tells his story to the sound of wind and waves, and if now and again his ardour for and knowledge of the sea leads him aside from the purpose of his scheme, the digressions are so admirably done that the book would lose from the point of view of literary interest were they omitted.... The three principal characters are well drawn (there are minor ones also excellently delineated).”—The Globe.ADNAM’S ORCHARDby SARAH GRAND6/-Author ofTHE HEAVENLY TWINSIDEALATHE BETH BOOKOUR MANIFOLD NATUREetc., etc.“Admirers of Mrs. Grand will be glad to find in her new book ‘Adnam’s Orchard’ the same vivacity and the same provocative spirit that gave its wide currency to her ‘Heavenly Twins,’ Both qualities sustain and inspire her to the last page of the six hundred and thirty which make up her latest novel.”—Morning Post.THE REWARD OF VIRTUEby AMBER REEVES6/-“There is cleverness enough and to spare, but it is ... a spontaneous cleverness, innate, not laboriously acquired.... The dialogue ... is so natural, so unaffected, that it is quite possible to read it without noticing the high artistic quality of it.... For a first novel Miss Reeves’s is a remarkable achievement; it would be a distinct achievement even were it not a first novel.”—Daily Chronicle.THE COST OF ITby ELEANOR MORDAUNT6/-Author of “The Garden of Contentment.”“Packed full of character and real life.... The character of the heroine is admirably drawn upon quite unconventional lines ... the situation is worked out with remarkable vigour and intensity. This is a fine, powerful and impressive novel, triumphing over inadequacies of literary training by sheer force of sincerity and of glowing human sentiment.”—Daily Telegraph.A RUNAWAY RINGby Mrs. HENRY E. DUDENEY6/-Author of “Maids’ Money,” “The Orchard Thief,” “A Large Room,” etc.“Her previous work has been good, but in ‘A Runaway Ring’ she has surpassed her best previous efforts, and it is no easy matter to do her sufficient honour. To make a romance from life’s ‘fedious afternoon’ without being simply sentimental is a task which scarcely any accomplish, and so, when the thing is done, it can only be judged on its own merits and without comparison.”—The Standard.THE ADJUSTMENTby MARGUERITE BRYANT6/-Author of “Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker,” etc.“‘The Adjustment’ ... is a notable novel.”—Westminster Gazette.“It is an admirable book, of an original and impressive nature, the authoress well understands the portrayal of human passions, whether love or hate, and makes her characters singularly attractive.... Many excellent situations add to the general interest.... We advise all who enjoy a thoroughly good novel to add ‘The Adjustment’ to their library list.”—The Globe.THE HIPPODROMEby RACHEL HAYWARD6/-Illustrated by CLARA WATERS.A brightly coloured story, the scene of which is laid in Barcelona. A young Irish girl who is dependent on herself for a means of subsistence becomes a “star” turn at a circus. While in the back-waters of that existence she falls in with certain gentlemen of international importance. She becomes their dupe and slave and passes through many adventures. But there is a way of escape and she takes it. Decidedly a book of swift movement and keen excitement.THE NOVELS OF LEO TOLSTOYTranslated by CONSTANCE GARNETTANNAKARENINA2/6 netWAR AND PEACE3/6 net“Mrs. Garnett’s translations from the Russian are always distinguished by most careful accuracy and a fine literary flavour. In this new rendering of Tolstoy she has surpassed herself.”—The Bookman.“Mrs. Garnett’s translation has all the ease and vigour which Matthew Arnold found in French versions of Russian novels and missed in English. She is indeed so successful that, but for the names, one might easily forget he was reading a foreign author.”—The Contemporary Review.THE NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKYTranslated by CONSTANCE GARNETT“By the genius of Dostoevsky you are always in the presence of living, passionate characters. They are not puppets, they are not acting to keep the plot in motion. They are men and women—I should say you can hear them breathe—irresistibly moving to their appointed ends.”—Evening News.I.THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV3/6 net“No other writer perhaps has given to materials so ugly, not merely strength and life, but grave pathos and tragic beauty.”—Times.II. THE IDIOTReady Shortly:Now for the first time translated in full from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT, translator of the Novels of TURGENEV and TOLSTOY.21 BEDFORD STREET, LONDON, W.C.

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THE WEAKER VESSEL

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THE PATRICIAN

by JOHN GALSWORTHY6/-

“I cannot find better praise in which to sum up Mr. Galsworthy’s ‘Patrician’ than the one that it is ‘deeply interesting’. Indeed, there is a vividness about the whole story which is absolutely fascinating. It lingers in the memory long, long after other novels of a less distinguished but more thrilling nature have been completely forgotten.”—The Tatler.

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MINNA

by KARL GJELLERUP6/-

A charming idyllic love story set in the beautiful “Saxon Switzerland.” A simpler, sweeter theme than the author’s last book, but written with the same distinction of style and thought.

By THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE PILGRIM KAMANITA

“Behind the imagination which floats ‘The Pilgrim Kamanita’ above the common there is a solid background of historical study which enables Mr. Gjellerup to make his characters and his scenes real.He has managed to catch the atmosphere of ancient India, and so wrap it about every place and act and speech in the story that the illusion and spell are on us from beginning to end.... It is a real romance, full of life and colour—and such colour as only India, in the full sensuous splendour of Hindu rites, can offer.... It is a beautiful allegory of the higher life, full of suggestion and even inspiration for those who have ears to hear. Mr. Gjellerup is to be congratulated not only on a noble idea, most skilfully presented, but also upon a translator who hardly ever lets us feel that we are not reading the original.”—Times.

A LIKELY STORY

by WILLIAM DE MORGAN6/-

“How delightful it all is.... Mr. De Morgan is worth having for himself alone and for the point of view of the world that he shows us.”—Standard.

“The book is great fun.... Much amusement, much cause for sly chuckling throughout the book.... I have enjoyed every line of it.”—T.P.’s Weekly.

“You cannot resist the charm of the narrator, who makes you feel as if you were listening to an improvisation.”—The Spectator.

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SIR GUY AND LADY RANNARD

by H. N. DICKINSON6/-

Author of “Keddy,” etc.

“Extraordinarilyclever indeed in this study. Apart from the absorbing interest of the two central characters, the book is full of able and suggestive studies. The whole book is one of the most remarkable that a young man has produced for many a long year.”—Morning Post.

THE MAGNATE

by ROBERT ELSON6/-

“It is a story that every reader will recommend after reading it—and with excellent reason, for it is fresh, original, and powerfully written.”—Daily Graphic.

“Mr. Elson has what Dickens and Thackeray and other great writers of fiction have. He has a personality. ‘The Magnate’ is quite the freshest story that we have read for a long time. We have no hesitation in recommending it to all persons who like a novel which is full of thought and detail and brims over with optimism.”—Daily Mail.

THE SECRET GARDEN

by Mrs. HODGSON BURNETT6/-

Author of “The Shuttle,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” etc.

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“The treatment by the authoress is as skilled in technique and vivid in human interest as the reader would expect from her.... The illustrations by Mr. Charles Robinson are the work of an artist rarely gifted.”—Daily Telegraph.

HE WHO PASSED

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“As a story, it is one of the most enthralling I have read for a long time.... Six—seven o’clock struck—half-past-seven—and yet this extraordinary narrative of a woman’s life held me absolutely enthralled.... I forgot the weather; I forgot my own grievances; I forgot everything, in fact, under the spell of this wonderful book.... In fact the whole book bears the stamp of reality from cover to cover. There is hardly a false or strained note in it. It is the ruthless study of a woman’s life.... If it is not the novel of the season, the season is not likely to give us anything much better.”—The Tatler.

Ready shortly, by the same author: “The Life Mask.”

LESS THAN THE DUST

by MARY AGNES HAMILTON6/-

“There is something delightfully fresh in the method of treatment, something that seems to mark the passing of another milestone in the work of the literary woman. Literary is the right word, for Miss Hamilton’s style bears the stamp of a natural purity of diction, while her analysis of emotion and character is keen without being over-protracted.”—Daily Telegraph.

KING ERRANT

by FLORA ANNIE STEEL6/-

Author of “On the Face of the Waters,” etc.

“Mrs. Steel has made for herself a high reputation by the excellence of her Indian novels; in the vividness of the Oriental picture which it presents her ‘King Errant’ stands on quite as high a level as her other books.

“Historically accurate and sufficiently absorbing, and the results of Mrs. Steel’s careful study of his character is that Baber stands out from the mists of nearly four centuries as a very real and attractive person.”—Times.

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ESSENCE OF HONEYMOON

by H. PERRY ROBINSON6/-

“Mr. Perry Robinson has never written a more fascinating and delightful little story than ‘Essence of Honeymoon’.... Mr. Perry Robinson says exactly the right thing.... An inimitable piece of sporting fun, admirably carried out, and we can recommend no better literature for all young people about to be married, or even after they have taken that sobering step, than Mr. Perry Robinson’s delightful pages.”—The Field.

A PRISON WITHOUT A WALL

by RALPH STRAUS6/-

Author of “The Scandalous Mr. Waldo.”

“This beautiful, whimsical, tragic biography. We are lost in admiration of Mr. Straus’ skill to portray the quintessential don. His pictures of combination room etiquette are literally to the life. But be knows also a wider world, and his touch is sure in drawing the eccentric great lady, the old-school politician, the passionate mondaine, and the fashionable charlatan.... This perfectly told story.”—Daily Mail.

JOHN CHRISTOPHER:

I.Dawn and Morning.II.Storm and Stress.III.John Christopher in Paris.IV.The Journey’s End.

by ROMAIN ROLLANDeach 6/-

Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. Author of “Little Brother,” etc.

“To most readers he will be a revelation, a new interest in their lives. Take the book up where you will, and you feel interested at once. You can read it and re-read it. It never wearies nor grows irritating.”—The Daily Telegraph.

“His English exercises so easy an effect that the reader has never for an instant the irritating sense of missing beauties through the inadequacies of a borrowed language; we have also compared it in many cases with the original and found it remarkably accurate. Readers may then be assured that they will lose but little of Mr. Rolland’s beauty and wisdom, even though they are unable to read him in the original, and Mr. Cannan is to be warmly congratulated.”—The Standard.

“A noble piece of work, which must, without any doubt whatever, ultimately receive the praise and attention which it so undoubtedly merits.... There is hardly a single book more illustrative, more informing and more inspiring ... than M. Romain Rolland’s creative work, ‘John Christopher’.”—Extract from descriptive review inThe Daily Telegraph.

WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO...?

by ELIZABETH ROBINS

Author of “Come and Find Me,” etc.

“She has, indeed, in this fine novel, splendidly fulfilled the high purpose that inspired her to draw attention to a social danger and existing evil, no less horrible than real.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Never, not even when Charles Reade, making robust romance from Blue books, was denouncing our prison and madhouse systems, has such determined and forceful use been made of fiction for the purpose of undoing a grevious social evil.”—The Daily Chronicle.

MOLYNEUX OF MAYFAIR

by DUNCAN SCHWANN

Author of “The Book of a Bachelor,” etc.

“This the third of Mr. Schwann’s novels, is by a very long way his best. Mr. Schwann has beyond question written a book that may be termed light and frivolous, if you wish, but that nevertheless, as a picture of a certain section of modern London Society, has its more important side to it. In deftness, interest, and human nature it shows a great advance on ‘The Book of a Bachelor.’”—Standard.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE MAGIC OF THE HILL

“The book is in fact, to be read for its light-hearted pictures of modern Paris, Paris seen with eyes of someone who knows it intimately and loves it. Mr. Schwann has more than a little of Thackeray’s absorbing interest in minor characters, minor events, and minor problems. The book proves that Mr. Schwann, as a student of life, has the right touch and the right humour.”—The Standard.

ZULEIKA DOBSON

by MAX BEERBOHM6/-

Author of “A Christmas Garland,” etc.

“In a word, he has achieved a masterpiece. He has written a book in which wit and invention never flag: a book, the writing of which he has enjoyed so tremendously that the reader enjoys it with him, as it were, personally, a book that is all of a piece, never halts, never drops; a book that is a sheer delight from cover to cover.”—Alfred Sutton inThe Daily Mail.

THE DEVOURERS

by ANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES6/-

“The book is delightfully written.... Mrs. Chartres has humour, she has style, she has pathos.”—The Standard.

“It is a great feat for any author to succeed in interesting her readers in three successive generations of heroines within the covers of a single novel without diminution of sympathy; yet that feat has been accomplished in ‘The Devourers’ ... it is an irresistible story and full of sympathetic charm.”—The Evening Standard.

LOVE’S PILGRIMAGE

by UPTON SINCLAIR6/-

Author of “The Jungle,” “King Midas,” etc.

“Mr. Upton Sinclair has written around such a great subject with such marvellous intuition and skill, and has presented so many problems which are engaging general attention, that all feminists and theorists upon social subjects will be eager to read his latest book.”—Daily Telegraph.

PASSION FRUIT

by E. C. VIVIAN6/-

“The interest all through depends mainly upon the male characters, who are drawn with unusual vigour and certainty.... The book as a whole is marked by a breadth of handling which sets it apart from the average novel.”—Morning Post.

“‘Passion Fruit’ is the work of a past-master in story telling.”—Sheffield Independent.

BORROWERS OF FORTUNE

by JESSIE LECKIE HERBERTSON6/-

Author of “Young Life,” etc.

A novel of happier vein than has sometimes been the case with Miss Herbertson. Her lighter heart is as infectious as her gravity was impressive.

THE DECLENSION OF HENRY D’ALBIAC

by V. GOLDIE6/-

Author of “Nigel Thomson,” and “Majorie Stevens.”

“It is by far the best and the liveliest of the suffragist stories we have come across, though by the way, the particular propaganda is by no means the chief object of the book. Indeed, propaganda of any kind is in its pages always subordinate to the author’s abundant and vivacious sense of humour.”—Manchester Guardian.

THE NOVELS OF HALL CAINE

(of which over 3 million copies have been sold).

“These volumes are in every way a pleasure to read. Of living authors, Mr. Hall Caine must certainly sway as multitudinous a following as any living man. A novel from his pen has become indeed for England and America something of an international event.”—Times.

Author of

A PORTENTOUS HISTORY

by ALFRED TENNYSON6/-

“With considerable skill we are shown how ignorant and conventional prejudice of all the normal inhabitants of the village are roused against the poor, good giant, only because he is greater than they are. Mr. Tennyson gives a vivid and unpleasant picture of prejudice and instinctive cruelty. In Mr. Tennyson we have a new novelist with something real and weighty to say.”—Westminster Gazette.

THE MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN KETTLE

by C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE6/-

Author of “Captain Kettle,” etc.

“When one has once opened ‘The Marriage of Kettle’ it is impossible to put it down unfinished. Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne has such a vivid pen and seems so intimately acquainted with the sea and seafaring life, and introduces us to so many humorous and realistic characters, that we feel as if we had actually sailed with the great Kettle on his adventurous voyages, and had shared his hairbreadth escapes.”—Evening Standard and St. James’s Gazette.

TALES OF THE UNEASY

by VIOLET HUNT6/-

Author of “The Wife of Altamont.”

“Miss Violet Hunt is eminently skilful, albeit a relentless ‘raconteuse’, the light of her inspiration burns with a hard gemlike flame. Miss Hunt has gained greatly in craftsmanship during the last few years: her style is excellent, her grip of subjects sure, and her insight exceptionally clear and sane.”—The Athenæum.

ESTHER

by AGNES E. JACOMB6/-

“The book is well written and the characters are well drawn.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Miss Jacomb has written in ‘Esther’ a very interesting novel; its situations are original, and the characters are sufficiently individual to make a convincing whole....”—Morning Post.

THE GETTING OF WISDOM

by HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON6/-

Author of “Maurice Guest.”

“An extraordinarily intimate and sympathetic study of a little girl and of the influence school-life has upon her gives unusual charm and interest to this story.”—Daily Mail.

“‘Stalky for Girls’ might very well be the sub-title of Mr. Richardson’s story. What ‘Stalky & Co.’ did for the boy, ‘The Getting of Wisdom’ tries to do for the girl. It is a bright, vivid piece of character writing.”—Saturday Review.

BURNING DAYLIGHT

by JACK LONDON6/-

Author of “The Call of the Wild,” “Martin Eden,” etc.

“I have long regarded the stories of Mr. Jack London as a welcome relief from the dulness of most contemporary fiction, and his latest, ‘Burning Daylight,’ did not disappoint me in this respect. No one who has read the author’s previous works will need to be told with what wonderful skill the atmosphere of this grim and unfriendly land is conveyed. There is one chapter, especially, which tells how, for a bet, Daylight raced two thousand miles over an unbroken trail of ice in sixty days that seems to me absolutely the best piece of descriptive writing of its kind that ever I read.”—Punch.

THE WHITE PEACOCK

by D. H. LAWRENCE6/-

“A book of real distinction, both of style and thought. Many of the descriptive passages have an almost lyrical charm, and the characterisation is, generally speaking, deft and life-like. ‘The White Peacock’ is a book not only worth reading but worth reckoning with, for we are inclined to think that its author has come to stay.”—Morning Post.

LOVE LIKE THE SEA

by J. E. PATTERSON6/-

Author of “Tillers of the Soil,” etc.

“He tells his story to the sound of wind and waves, and if now and again his ardour for and knowledge of the sea leads him aside from the purpose of his scheme, the digressions are so admirably done that the book would lose from the point of view of literary interest were they omitted.... The three principal characters are well drawn (there are minor ones also excellently delineated).”—The Globe.

ADNAM’S ORCHARD

by SARAH GRAND6/-

Author of

“Admirers of Mrs. Grand will be glad to find in her new book ‘Adnam’s Orchard’ the same vivacity and the same provocative spirit that gave its wide currency to her ‘Heavenly Twins,’ Both qualities sustain and inspire her to the last page of the six hundred and thirty which make up her latest novel.”—Morning Post.

THE REWARD OF VIRTUE

by AMBER REEVES6/-

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THE COST OF IT

by ELEANOR MORDAUNT6/-

Author of “The Garden of Contentment.”

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A RUNAWAY RING

by Mrs. HENRY E. DUDENEY6/-

Author of “Maids’ Money,” “The Orchard Thief,” “A Large Room,” etc.

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THE ADJUSTMENT

by MARGUERITE BRYANT6/-

Author of “Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker,” etc.

“‘The Adjustment’ ... is a notable novel.”—Westminster Gazette.

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THE HIPPODROME

by RACHEL HAYWARD6/-

Illustrated by CLARA WATERS.

A brightly coloured story, the scene of which is laid in Barcelona. A young Irish girl who is dependent on herself for a means of subsistence becomes a “star” turn at a circus. While in the back-waters of that existence she falls in with certain gentlemen of international importance. She becomes their dupe and slave and passes through many adventures. But there is a way of escape and she takes it. Decidedly a book of swift movement and keen excitement.

THE NOVELS OF LEO TOLSTOY

Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT

ANNAKARENINA2/6 net

WAR AND PEACE3/6 net

“Mrs. Garnett’s translations from the Russian are always distinguished by most careful accuracy and a fine literary flavour. In this new rendering of Tolstoy she has surpassed herself.”—The Bookman.

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THE NOVELS OF DOSTOEVSKY

Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT

“By the genius of Dostoevsky you are always in the presence of living, passionate characters. They are not puppets, they are not acting to keep the plot in motion. They are men and women—I should say you can hear them breathe—irresistibly moving to their appointed ends.”—Evening News.

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“No other writer perhaps has given to materials so ugly, not merely strength and life, but grave pathos and tragic beauty.”—Times.

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Now for the first time translated in full from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT, translator of the Novels of TURGENEV and TOLSTOY.

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Table of ContentsI.THE NEW PLAGUE1I.THE GOSLING FAMILY3II.THE OPINIONS OF JASPER THRALE19III.LONDON’S INCREDULITY39IV.MR BARKER’S FLAIR45V.THE CLOSED DOOR52VI.DISASTER63VII.PANIC77VIII.GURNEY IN CORNWALL89IX.THE DEVOLUTION OF GEORGE GOSLING98X.EXODUS121II.THE MARCH OF THE GOSLINGS127XI.THE SILENT CITY129XII.EMIGRANT150XIII.DIFFERENCES171XIV.AUNT MAY186XV.FROM SUDBURY TO WYCOMBE196XVI.THE YOUNG BUTCHER OF HIGH WYCOMBE212III.WOMANKIND IN THE MAKING227XVII.LONDON TO MARLOW229XVIII.MODES OF EXPRESSION250XIX.ON THE FLOOD283XX.THE TERRORS OF SPRING297XXI.SMOKE304EPILOGUE315THE GREAT PLAN317

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