In One Volume, price 6s.
The Morning Post.—‘The story is described as a “fantastic romance,” and, indeed, fantasy reigns supreme from the first to the last of its pages. It relates the history of our time with humour and well-aimed sarcasm. All the most prominent characters of the day, whether political or otherwise, come in for notice. The identity of the leading politicians is but thinly veiled, while many celebrities appear inpropriâ personâ.’
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THE WORLD’S MERCY
ByMAXWELL GRAY
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Speaker.—‘Those who most admiredThe Silence of Dean Maitlandwill find much to hold their attention, and to make them think inThe World’s Mercy.’
The Daily Telegraph.—‘The qualities of her pen make all of Maxwell Gray’s work interesting, and the charm of her writing is unalterable. IfThe World’s Mercyis painful, it is undeniably forcible and dramatic, and it holds the reader from start to finish.’
THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN TREASURE
ByMAXWELL GRAY
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Chronicle.—‘There is a strong and pervading charm in this new novel by Maxwell Gray.... It is full of tragedy and irony, though irony is not the dominant note.’
The Times.—‘Its buoyant humour and lively character-drawing will be found very enjoyable.’
The Daily Mail.—‘The book becomes positively great, fathoming a depth of human pathos which has not been equalled in any novel we have read for years past....The House of Hidden Treasureis not a novel to be borrowed; it is a book to be bought and read, and read again and again.’
THE LAST SENTENCE
ByMAXWELL GRAY
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Standard.—‘The Last Sentenceis a remarkable story; it abounds with dramatic situations, the interest never for a moment flags, and the characters are well drawn and consistent.’
The Daily Telegraph.—‘One of the most powerful and adroitly worked-out plots embodied in any modern work of fiction runs throughThe Last Sentence.... This terrible tale of retribution is told with well-sustained force and picturesqueness, and abounds in light as well as shade.’
SWEETHEARTS AND FRIENDS
ByMAXWELL GRAY
In One Volume, price 6s.
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FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER
ByMAXWELL GRAY
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Athenæum.—‘Brightly and pleasantly written, Maxwell Gray’s new story will entertain all readers who can enjoy the purely sentimental in fiction.’
The Scotsman.—‘The story is full of bright dialogue: it is one of the pleasantest and healthiest novels of the season.’
HEARTS IMPORTUNATE
ByEVELYN DICKINSON
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Telegraph.—‘Happy in title and successful in evolution, Miss Dickinson’s novel is very welcome. We have read it with great pleasure, due not only to the interest of the theme, but to an appreciation of the artistic method, and the innate power of the authoress. It is vigorous, forcible, convincing.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘An enjoyable book, and a clever one.’
THE HIDDEN MODEL
ByFRANCES HARROD
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Outlook.—‘Intensely dramatic and moving. We have sensitive analysis of character, sentiment, colour, agreeable pathos.’
The Athenæum.—‘A good story simply told and undidactic, with men and women in it who are creatures of real flesh and blood. An artistic coterie is described briefly and pithily, with humour and without exaggeration.’
The Academy.—‘A pathetic little love idyll, touching, plaintive, and not without a kindly and gentle fascination.’
Literature.—‘A remarkably original and powerful story: one of the most interesting and original books of the year.’
The Sunday Special.—‘Thrilling from cover to cover.’
SAWDUST
ByDOROTHEA GERARD
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Athenæum.—‘Once again Dorothea Gerard has shown considerable ability in the delineation of diverse characters—ability as evident in the minor as in the chief persons; and, what is more, she gets her effects without any undue labouring of points as to the goodness or badness of her people.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘The little town of Zanee, a retired spot in the lower Carpathians, is the scene of Miss Gerald’s book. Remote enough, geographically; but the writer has not seen her Galician peasants as foreigners, nor has she made them other than entirely human. Human, too, are the scheming Jews, the Polish Counts and Countesses, the German millionaire. The story is simple and eminently natural.’
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GLORIA MUNDI
ByHAROLD FREDERIC
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Chronicle.—‘Mr. Harold Frederic has here achieved a triumph of characterisation rare indeed in fiction, even in such fiction as is given us by our greatest.Gloria Mundiis a work of art; and one cannot read a dozen of its pages without feeling that the artist was an informed, large-minded, tolerant man of the world.’
The St. James’s Gazette.—‘It is packed with interesting thought as well as clear-cut individual and living character, and is certainly one of the few striking serious novels, apart from adventure and romance, which have been produced this year.’
ILLUMINATION
ByHAROLD FREDERIC
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Spectator.—‘There is something more than the mere touch of the vanished hand that wroteThe Scarlet LetterinIllumination, which is the best novel Mr. Harold Frederic has produced, and, indeed, places him very near if not quite at the head of the newest school of American fiction.’
The Manchester Guardian.—‘It is a long time since a book of such genuine importance has appeared. It will not only afford novel-readers food for discussion during the coming season, but it will eventually fill a recognised place in English fiction.’
THE MARKET-PLACE
ByHAROLD FREDERIC
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘Harold Frederic stood head and shoulders above the ordinary run of novelists.The Market-Placeseizes the imagination and holds the reader’s interest, and it is suggestive and stimulating to thought.’
The Bookman.—‘Incomparably the best novel of the year. It is a ruthless exposure, a merciless satire. Both as satire and romance it is splendid reading. As a romance of the “City” it has no equal in modern fiction.’
THE LAKE OF WINE
ByBERNARD CAPES
In One Volume, price 6s.
W. E. Henley in ‘The Outlook.’—‘Mr. Capes’s devotion to style does him yeoman service all through this excellent romance.... I have read no book for long which contented me as this book. This story—excellently invented and excellently done—is one no lover of romance can afford to leave unread.’
The St. James’s Gazette.—‘The love-motif is of the quaintest and daintiest; the clash of arms is Stevensonian.... There is a vein of mystery running through the book, and greatly enhancing its interest.’
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VIA LUCIS
ByKASSANDRA VIVARIA
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Telegraph.—‘Perhaps never before has there been related with such detail, such convincing honesty, and such pitiless clearsightedness, the tale of misery and torturing perplexity, through which a young and ardent seeker after truth can struggle. It is all so strongly drawn. The book is simply and quietly written, and gains in force from its clear, direct style. Every page, every descriptive line bears the stamp of truth.’
The Morning Post.—‘Via Lucisis but one more exercise, and by no means the least admirable, on that great and inexhaustible theme which has inspired countless artists and poets and novelists—the conflict between the aspirations of the soul for rest in religion and of the heart for human love and the warfare of the world.’
THE OPEN QUESTION
ByELIZABETH ROBINS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The St. James’s Gazette.—‘This is an extraordinarily fine novel.... We have not, for many years, come across a serious novel of modern life which has more powerfully impressed our imagination, or created such an instant conviction of the genius of its writer.... We express our own decided opinion that it is a book which, setting itself a profound human problem, treats it in a manner worthy of the profoundest thinkers of the time, with a literary art and a fulness of the knowledge of life which stamp a master novelist.... It is not meat for little people or for fools; but for those who care for English fiction as a vehicle of the constructive intellect, building up types of living humanity for our study, it will be a new revelation of strength, and strange, serious beauty.’
BELOW THE SALT
ByELIZABETH ROBINS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Chronicle.—‘All cleverly told, vivacious, life-like, observant sketches. Were we to award the palm where all are meritorious, it should be to the delightful triplet entitled “The Portman Memoirs.” These three sketches are positively exhilarating. We can sincerely recommend them as certain cures for the vapours, the spleen, or the “blues.”’
THE STORY OF EDEN
ByDOLF WYLLARDE
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Academy.—‘The story is an outstanding one. There are passages of thought and colour which gladden, and characters which interest, as the living only do. A light wit beams through the dialogue. On the whole, bravo! Dolf Wyllarde.’
The Standard.—‘A remarkable book, fresh and courageous. The writer has a sense of things as they are, and describes them simply and vividly. The book is well written, and the pictures of social life in Wynberg are excellent.’
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ST. IVES
ByROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘Neither Stevenson himself nor any one else has given us a better example of a dashing story, full of life and colour and interest. St. Ives is both an entirely delightful personage and a narrator with an enthralling style—a character who will be treasured up in the memory along with David Balfour and Alan Breck, even with D’Artagnan and the Musketeers.’
THE EBB-TIDE
ByROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONANDLLOYD OSBOURNE
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Chronicle.—‘We are swept along without a pause on the current of the animated and vigorous narrative. Each incident and adventure is told with that incomparable keenness of vision which is Mr. Stevenson’s greatest charm as a story-teller.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘It is brilliantly invented, and it is not less brilliantly told. There is not a dull sentence in the whole run of it. And the style is fresh, alert, full of surprises—in fact, is very good latter-day Stevenson indeed.’
THE QUEEN VERSUS BILLY
ByLLOYD OSBOURNE
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘Of the nine stories in this volume, not one falls below a notably high level, while three or four of them at least attain what short stories not often do, the certainty that they will be re-read, and vividly remembered between re-readings. Mr. Osbourne writes often with a delicious rollick of humour, sometimes with a pathos from which tears are not far remote, and always with the buoyancy and crispness without which the short story is naught, and with which it can be so much.’
The Outlook.—‘These stories are admirable. They are positive good things, wanting not for strength, pathos, humour, observation.’
CHINATOWN STORIES
ByC. B. FERNALD
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Academy.—‘We feel that Mr. Fernald has described the Chinese character with extraordinary accuracy. His range is considerable; he begins this volume, for example, with an idyllic story of an adorable Chinese infant.... This is sheer good-humour, and prettiness and colour. And at the end of the book is one of the grimmest and ablest yarns of Chinese piracy and high sea villainy that any one has written, Stevenson not excluded. In each of these we see the hand of a very capable literary artist. It is a fascinating book.’
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THE ASSASSINS
ByNEVILL M. MEAKIN
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘He brings home to his readers the spirit of awe—of allurement and terror—which his chosen place and period inspire. The opening chapters breathe the true spirit of romance. The Orient blazes in Mr. Meakin’s descriptions. His pen is dipped in the period he portrays. It is iridescent with the mirage of the East; glowing now with the life and clash and din of the Ismalians, and again with the victories of Saladin: powerful in its pictures of human passion, human ambition, and the tragedy of fate.’
The Standard.—‘The Assassinsattracts us on its first page by the excellence of its style, and the interest is kept up to the end.’
A DAUGHTER OF THE VELDT
ByBASIL MARNAN
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Morning Post.—‘A strong, clever, and striking book. Mr. Basil Marnan has drawn some vivid and wholly new pictures. The book has scenes of dramatic power, told with simple directness.’
The Daily Chronicle.—‘It has interested us profoundly, and has given us good and sufficient reason to hope that another novel from the same hand and with the samemise-en-scène, may before very long come our way.’
The Scotsman.—‘This is a South African novel which should arrest attention. It is of engrossing interest. Mr. Marnan has dramatic power, a vivid descriptive talent, and a rich and expressive style. He has written a remarkable book.’
ON THE EDGE OF THE EMPIRE
ByEDGAR JEPSONand CaptainD. BEAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Spectator.—‘Of the wealth and interest and variety of the matter there can be no question. It might be called the Book of the Sepoy, for no writer, not even Mr. Kipling himself, has given us a deeper insight into the character of the Indian fighting man, or brought home to us more vividly the composite nature of our native regiments.’
The Daily News.—‘The picturesque native soldier has never been more fully described or more realistically painted than in the present volume. The book is packed full of good stuff, and deserves to be widely read.’
THE EAGLE’S HEART
ByHAMLIN GARLAND
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Athenæum.—‘Mr. Garland’s work is always fresh and vigorous, and this story is full of his characteristic energy. He makes one share with delight in the irresistible fascination of wild life in the Far West.’
The Illustrated London News.—‘If Mr. Hamlin Garland had never written anything else,The Eagle’s Heartwould suffice to win him a reputation. It is a fine book, instinct with humanity, quivering with strength, and in every fiber of it alive.’
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THE BETH BOOK
BySARAH GRAND
In One Volume, price 6s.
Punch.—‘The heroine ofThe Beth Bookis one of Sarah Grand’s most fascinating creations. With such realistic art is her life set forth that, for a while, the reader will probably be under the impression that he has before him the actual story of a wayward genius compiled from her genuine diary. The story is absorbing; the truth to nature in the characters, whether virtuous, ordinary, or vicious, every reader with some experience will recognise.’
The Globe.—‘It is quite safe to prophesy that those who peruseThe Beth Bookwill linger delightedly over one of the freshest and deepest studies of child character ever given to the world, and hereafter will find it an ever present factor in their literary recollections and impressions.’
THE HEAVENLY TWINS
BySARAH GRAND
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Athenæum.—‘It is so full of interest, and the characters are so eccentrically humorous yet true, that one feels inclined to pardon all its faults, and give oneself up to unreserved enjoyment of it.... The twins Angelica and Diavolo, young barbarians, utterly devoid of all respect, conventionality, or decency, are among the most delightful and amusing children in fiction.’
The Daily Telegraph.—‘Everybody ought to read it, for it is an inexhaustible source of refreshing and highly stimulating entertainment.’
Punch.—‘The Twins themselves are a creation: the epithet “Heavenly” for these two mischievous little fiends is admirable.’
IDEALA
BySARAH GRAND
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Morning Post.—‘It is remarkable as the outcome of an earnest mind seeking in good faith the solution of a difficult and ever present problem....Idealais original and somewhat daring.... The story is in many ways delightful and thought-suggesting.’
The Liverpool Mercury.—‘The book is a wonderful one—an evangel for the fair sex, and at once an inspiration and a comforting companion, to which thoughtful womanhood will recur again and again.’
OUR MANIFOLD NATURE
BySARAH GRAND
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Spectator.—‘All these studies, male and female alike, are marked by humour, pathos, and fidelity to life.’
The Speaker.—‘InOur Manifold NatureSarah Grand is seen at her best. How good that is can only be known by those who read for themselves this admirable little volume.’
The Guardian.—‘Our Manifold Natureis a clever book. Sarah Grand has the power of touching common things, which, if it fails to make them “rise to touch the spheres,” renders them exceedingly interesting.’
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THE LAND OF COCKAYNE
ByMATILDE SERAO
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘It is long since we have read, and indeed re-read, any book of modern fiction with so absorbing an interest asThe Land of Cockayne, the latest book by Matilde Serao (Heinemann), and surely as fine a piece of work as the genius of this writer has yet accomplished. It is splendid! The character-drawing is subtle and convincing; every touch tells. Such books asThe Land of Cockayneare epoch-making, voices that cry aloud in the wilderness of modern “literature,” and will be heard while others only cackle.’
THE BALLET DANCER
ByMATILDE SERAO
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Saturday Review.—‘The work of Madame Serao, a novelist with rare gifts of observation and faculties of execution, only needs a little more concentration on a central motive to rank among the finest of its kind, the short novel of realism. She curiously resembles Prosper Mérimée in her cold, impersonal treatment of her subject, without digression or comment; the drawing of clear outlines of action; the complete exposure of motive and inner workings of impulse; the inevitable development of given temperaments under given circumstances. She works with insight, with judgment, and with sincerity.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘Few living writers have given us anything equal to her splendid storyThe Land of Cockayne, and it is much to say that those who were stirred to enthusiasm by that book will experience no reaction upon reading the two stories here bound together. Genius is not too big a word for her.’
THE SCOURGE-STICK
By Mrs.CAMPBELL PRAED
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Observer.—‘Not only isThe Scourge-Stickthe best novel that Mrs. Praed has yet written, but it is one that will long occupy a prominent place in the literature of the age.’
The Illustrated London News.—‘A singularly powerful study of a woman who fails in everything, only to rise on stepping-stones to higher things. A succession of strong, natural, and exciting situations.’
Black and White.—‘A notable book which must be admitted by all to have real power, and that most intangible quality—fascination.’
IN HASTE AND AT LEISURE
ByE. LYNN LINTON
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Literary World.—‘Whatever its exaggerations may be,In Haste and at Leisureremains a notable achievement. It has given us pleasure, and we can recommend it with confidence.’
The World.—‘It is clever, and well written.’
The Graphic.—‘It is thoroughly interesting, and it is full of passages that almost irresistibly tempt quotation.’
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THE LONDONERS
ByROBERT HICHENS
In One Volume, price 6s.
Punch.—‘Mr. Hichens calls his eccentric story “an absurdity,” and so it is. As amusing nonsense, written in a happy-go-lucky style, it works up to a genuine hearty-laugh-extracting scene....The Londonersis one of the most outrageous pieces of extravagant absurdity we have come across for many a day.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘It is all screamingly funny, and does great credit to Mr. Hichens’s luxuriant imagination.’
AN IMAGINATIVE MAN
ByROBERT HICHENS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Scotsman.—‘It is no doubt a remarkable book. If it has almost none of the humour of its predecessor (The Green Carnation), it is written with the same brilliancy of style, and the same skill is shown in the drawing of accessories. Mr. Hichens’s three characters never fail to be interesting. They are presented with very considerable power, while the background of Egyptian life and scenery is drawn with a sure hand.’
THE FOLLY OF EUSTACE
ByROBERT HICHENS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The World.—‘The little story is as fantastic and also as reasonable as could be desired, with the occasional dash of strong sentiment, the sudden turning on of the lights of sound knowledge of life and things that we find in the author when he is most fanciful. The others are weird enough and strong enough in human interest to make a name for their writer had his name needed making.’
THE SLAVE
ByROBERT HICHENS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Speaker.—‘It tells an extremely interesting story, and it is full of entertaining episodes. Above all, the romance of London is treated as it has never been since the glorious reign of Prince Florizel of Bohemia, and, if only on that account,The Slaveis a book for the busy to remember and for the leisurely to read.’
The Daily Telegraph.—‘The book deserves to be widely read. Sir Reuben Allabruth, a figure of real distinction, will take his place among the shades of fiction.’
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FLAMES
ByROBERT HICHENS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Chronicle.—‘A cunning blend of the romantic and the real, the work of a man who can observe, who can think, who can imagine, and who can write.... And the little thumb-nail sketches of the London streets have the grim force of a Callot.’
The World.—‘An exceedingly clever and daring work ... a novel so weirdly fascinating and engrossing that the reader easily forgives its length. Its unflagging interest and strength, no less than its striking originality, both of design and treatment, will certainly rank it among the most notable novels of the season.’
NUDE SOULS
ByBENJAMIN SWIFT
In One Volume, price 6s.
Mr. W. L. Courtney in the ‘Daily Telegraph.’—‘Any one who is so obviously sincere as Mr. Benjamin Swift is an author who must be reckoned with. The story is very vivid, very poignant, very fascinating.’
The World.—‘Mr. Benjamin Swift was a bold man when he called his new storyNude Souls. There is a self-assertion about this title which only success could justify. Let it be said at once that the author has succeeded. He lays absolutely bare before the reader the souls of a striking company of men and women. There is that about the book which makes the reader loth to put it down, loth to come to the end—comprehension of human nature, and relentless power of expression.’
THE REBEL
ByH. B. MARRIOTT WATSON
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Morning Post.—‘The tale is full of incidents and dramatic situations; the result commands our unstinted admiration. It is an extraordinarily brilliant performance. Though full of the most subtle character-drawing,The Rebelis in the main a story of adventure. And these adventures are related with such sharpness of outline, they are so vivid, and the style of the author is so brilliant throughout, that were there not a character in the book worth a moment’s consideration, it would still be well worth reading.’
SONS OF THE SWORD
ByMARGARET L. WOODS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘To write a good Napoleon novel has long seemed to be one of those enterprises that attract authors only to overthrow and discomfit them. Yet Mrs. Woods has come out of this ordeal unscathed, and her good fortune places her in the front rank of living novelists. Not that it is merely the Napoleonic scenes which makeSons of the Sworda remarkable and admirable book. There is much in it besides the vivid glimpses of the Man of Destiny to attract and interest every kind of reader.’
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THE AWKWARD AGE
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Outlook.—‘InThe Awkward AgeMr. Henry James has surpassed himself.’
The Daily Chronicle.—‘In delicacy of texture, his work, compared to the work of most, we are strongly inclined to say of all other novelists, is as a fabric woven of the finest spider’s web to common huckaback. He suggests more by his reticences than he tells by his statements.... We should have to search far and wide in modern fiction to find artistry more finished, so consummate.’
THE TWO MAGICS
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Athenæum.—‘InThe Two Magics, the first tale, “The Turn of the Screw,” is one of the most engrossing and terrifying ghost stories we have ever read. The other story in the book, “Covering End,” ... is in its way excellently told.’
The Daily News.—‘It is a masterpiece of artistic execution. Mr. James has lavished upon it all the resources and subtleties of his art. The workmanship throughout is exquisite in the precision of the touch, in the rendering of shades of spectral representation.’
THE SPOILS OF POYNTON
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The National Observer.—‘A work of brilliant fancy, of delicate humour, of gentle satire, of tragedy and comedy in appropriate admixture. We congratulate Mr. James without reserve upon the power, the delicacy, and the charm of a book of no common fascination.’
The Manchester Guardian.—‘Delightful reading. The old felicity of phrase and epithet, the quick, subtle flashes of insight, the fastidious liking for the best in character and art, are as marked as ever, and give one an intellectual pleasure for which one cannot be too grateful.’
THE OTHER HOUSE
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily News.—‘A melodrama wrought with the exquisiteness of a madrigal. All the characters, however lightly sketched, are drawn with that clearness of insight, with those minute, accurate, unforeseen touches that tell of relentless observation.’
The Scotsman.—‘A masterpiece of Mr. James’s analytical genius and finished literary style. It also shows him at his dramatic best. He has never written anything in which insight and dramatic power are so marvellously combined with fine and delicate literary workmanship.’
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WHAT MAISIE KNEW
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Academy.—‘We have read this book with amazement and delight: with amazement at its supreme delicacy; with delight that its author retains an unswerving allegiance to literary conscience that forbids him to leave a slipshod phrase, or a single word out of its appointed place. There are many writers who can write dialogue that is amusing, convincing, real. But there is none who can reach Mr. James’s extraordinary skill in tracing dialogue from the first vague impulse in the mind to the definite spoken word.’
EMBARRASSMENTS
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘Mr. James’s stories are a continued protest against superficial workmanship and slovenly style. He is an enthusiast who has devoted himself to keeping alive the sacred fire of genuine literature; and he has his reward in a circle of constant admirers.’
The Daily News.—‘Mr. Henry James is the Meissonier of literary art. In his new volume, we find all the exquisiteness, the precision of touch, that are his characteristic qualities. It is a curiously fascinating volume.’
The National Observer.—‘The delicate art of Mr. Henry James has rarely been seen to more advantage than in these stories.’
The St. James’s Gazette.—‘All four stories are delightful for admirable workmanship, for nicety and precision of presentation, and “The Way it Came” is beyond question a masterpiece.’
TERMINATIONS
ByHENRY JAMES
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘All the stories are told by a man whose heart and soul are in his profession of literature.’
The Athenæum.—‘The appearance ofTerminationswill in no way shake the general belief in Mr. Henry James’s accomplished touch and command of material. On the contrary, it confirms conclusions long since foregone, and will increase the respect of his readers.... With such passages of trenchant wit and sparkling observation, surely in his best manner, Mr. James ought to be as satisfied as his readers cannot fail to be.’
SOME WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN
ByMAARTEN MAARTENS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Times.—‘Maarten Maartens here shows himself a master of the short story, and more of a cosmopolitan than we had suspected.’
The Academy.—‘We have enjoyed the book, and we think it contains much excellent work. It has all the wit, the discretion, the worldliness of Mr. Anthony Hope’s social studies. And it has, in addition, a genuine cosmopolitanism rare enough in English fiction.’
The Outlook.—‘The women Mr. Maartens has known are various and interesting, and the episodes which he has chosen to depict are cleverly imagined.’
The Scotsman.—‘Mr. Maarten Maartens displays all his genius as a humorist, a story-teller, and a painter of talent.’
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THE DANCER IN YELLOW
ByW. E. NORRIS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Guardian.—‘A very clever and finished study of a dancer at one of the London theatres. We found the book very pleasant and refreshing, and laid it down with the wish that there were more like it.’
The World.—‘The Dancer in Yellowtakes us by surprise. The story is both tragic and pathetic.... We do not think he has written any more clever and skilful story than this one, and particular admiration is due to the byways and episodes of the narrative.’
THE WIDOWER
ByW. E. NORRIS
In One Volume, price 6s.
St. James’s Gazette.—‘Mr. Norris’s new story is one of his best. There is always about his novels an atmosphere of able authorship ...andThe Widoweris handled throughout in the perfect manner to which Mr. Norris’s readers are accustomed.’
Pall Mall Gazette.—‘There is distinction of all kinds in every paragraph, and the whole is worthy of the delicately-finished details. Mr. Norris is always delightfully witty, clever, and unfailing in delicacy and point of style and manner, breezily actual, and briskly passing along. In a word, he is charming.’
MARIETTA’S MARRIAGE
ByW. E. NORRIS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Athenæum.—‘A fluent style, a keen insight into certain types of human nature, a comprehensive and humorous view of modern society—these are gifts Mr. Norris has already displayed, and again exhibits in his present volume. From the first chapter to the last, the book runs smoothly and briskly, with natural dialogue and many a piquant situation.’
The Daily News.—‘Every character in the book is dexterously drawn. Mr. Norris’s book is interesting, often dramatic, and is the work of, if not a deep, a close and humorous observer of men and women.’
A VICTIM OF GOOD LUCK
ByW. E. NORRIS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Daily Chronicle.—‘It has not a dull page from first to last. Any one with normal health and taste can read a book like this with real pleasure.’
The Spectator.—‘The brightest and cleverest book which Mr. Norris has given us since he wroteThe Rogue.
The Saturday Review.—‘Novels which are neither dull, unwholesome, morbid, nor disagreeable, are so rare in these days, thatA Victim of Good Luck... ought to find a place in a book-box filled for the most part with light literature.... We think it will increase the reputation of an already very popular author.’
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THE COUNTESS RADNA
ByW. E. MORRIS
In One Volume, price 6s.
The Speaker.—‘In style, skill in construction, and general “go,” it is worth a dozen ordinary novels.’
Black and White.—‘The novel, like all Mr. Norris’s work, is an excessively clever piece of work, and the author never for a moment allows his grasp of his plot and his characters to slacken.’
The Westminster Gazette.—‘Mr. Norris writes throughout with much liveliness and force, saying now and then something that is worth remembering. And he sketches his minor characters with a firm touch.’
THE IMAGE BREAKERS
ByGERTRUDE DIX
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The Outlook.—‘We have here a book packed with thought, suggestive, sincere. The story is told supremely well. It has construction, it has atmosphere. The characters live, breathe, love, suffer. Everything is on the high plane of literature. It is a book of absorbing interest.’
A PROPHET OF THE REAL
ByESTHER MILLER
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The Daily Telegraph.—‘Miss Miller’s study is both striking and original. The young authoress knows how to tell her story, and her manner, the way in which she describes the emotions of her characters, is always adequate and often eloquent. She shows us the girl as she was in the days of her servitude, gives us all the illuminating details of her sordid existence; then she shows us the pathetic blossoming of the nipped bud under the influence of kindness, the transformation of the morbid girl into a beautiful and gracious woman. Miss Miller is really to be congratulated on her heroine. The study is interesting and faithful.’
THE GLOWWORM
ByMAY BATEMAN
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The Academy.—‘It has quite a character of its own; it has charm and it has feeling. The minor characters are all good, and there is a pleasant humour always at hand to relieve a story otherwise tragical enough.’
Punch.—‘A clever, well-written story.’
Truth.—‘As interesting as it is original.’
The Morning Post.—‘It is distinctly a fine piece of fiction, for the author can delineate character with precision and sympathy, and her style is admirably polished.’
The Daily Telegraph.—‘Miss Bateman has given us a very careful and sympathetic story of the successive phases of a fine nature; the character is consistently developed with a tender compassion for the impracticable and appreciation for the beautiful. The authoress has, moreover, a fund of shrewd common-sense which, combined with keen observation and humour, makes her book both readable and entertaining.’
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GILLETTE’S MARRIAGE
ByMAMIE BOWLES
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The Athenæum.—‘This is an extraordinarily clever performance and will be found most absorbing. The characterisation is excellent, the dialogue natural and alive, the emotion poignant and real.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘It is decidedly clever and human, and the brilliantly bold heroism of Gillette’s final act of self-sacrifice is effective. One must always admit its undeniable power.’
THE FALL OF LORD PADDOCKSLEA
ByLIONEL LANGTON
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The World.—‘A very clever and good-humouredjeu d’esprit. The talk is excellent, the atmosphere of worldliness and self-interest tempered by the very best manners and form, the verisimilitude of Lady Killiecrankie, are all much to be commended.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘Amusing snapshots of current political life.’
The Westminster Gazette.—‘A clever and ingenious story of political life, told with a touch of cynicism which is redeemed by a background of romance.’
The Standard.—‘Will no doubt be read with amusement by those who find delight in the personal journalism of the day, and have the curiosity to fit the characters to the originals. There is enough bright writing in the book to make it a pleasant companion.’
THE WHITE TERROR
ByFÉLIX GRAS
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The Spectator.—‘The fascination ofThe Reds of the MidiandThe Terroris exerted with equal force and charm in their brilliant sequel,The White Terror. Few narratives in modern fiction are more thrilling. M. Gras has the gift of achieving the most vivid and poignant results by a method devoid of artifice or elaboration. The narrative is a masterpiece of simplicity andnaïveté: a stirring and richly coloured recital.’
The Daily Chronicle.—‘The book is full of living pictures. The feverishness, the uncertainty, of everything and everybody are most powerfully brought out.’
THE TERROR
ByFÉLIX GRAS
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The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘Those who shared Mr. Gladstone’s admiration forThe Reds of the Midiwill renew it when they readThe Terror. It is a stirring and vivid story, full of perilous and startling adventures, and without one interval of dulness.... It excites and absorbs the reader’s attention. The excitement grows with the development of the plot, and the incidents are told with much spirit.’
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BY BREAD ALONE
ByI. K. FRIEDMAN
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The Spectator.—‘A remarkably interesting, able, and right-minded study of the labour question in the United States. The employer, the capitalist, the “hands,” the Socialist, the Anarchist, the would-be Saviour of Society,—all are fully, sympathetically, and convincingly presented. There are powerful scenes in the book; there are characters that touch.’
The Athenæum.—‘There are descriptions which tell. There are remarkable scenes painted, as it were, with blood and fire. Man and machinery in grim revolt are portrayed, with hand-to-hand fights and many gruesome death-scenes.’
LOVE AND HIS MASK
ByMENIE MURIEL DOWIE
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Literature.—‘All of the many different kinds of novel readers will enjoyLove and his Mask.... The story is a refreshment from beginning to end.Love and his Maskwill be one of the most popular novels of the autumn season.’
The Daily Chronicle.—‘A delightful romance.’
Punch.—‘A very clever novel, brightly written.’
FOREST FOLK
ByJAMES PRIOR
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The Spectator.—‘We have no hesitation in welcomingForest Folkas one of the very best and most original novels of the year, and our only regret is that we have failed to proclaim the fact sooner. The characterisation is excellent, the narrative is crowded with exciting incident, and the author has, in addition to an eye for the picturesque, a quite peculiar gift for describing effects of light and colour.’
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘Mr. Prior has a large knowledge and is a keen observer of nature; he is cunning in devising strong situations, dramatic in describing them. His are forest folk indeed, men and women of flesh and blood.’
TANGLED TRINITIES
ByDANIEL WOODROFFE
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The St. James’s Gazette.—‘Full of live people, whom one remembers long. The whole book is charming.’
The Illustrated London News.—‘Mr. Woodroffe writes with admirable clearness, picturesqueness, and restraint; he has an eye for character, and a grip of tragic possibilities. It is a moving story, and stamps the author as one of the few real artists who are now writing English fiction.’
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GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO’S NOVELS
W. L. Courtney in the Daily Telegraph.—D’Annunzio is one of the great artistic energies of the age. He is the incarnation of the Latin genius just as Rudyard Kipling is the incarnation of the Anglo-Saxon genius. He has invented new harmonies of prose.
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THE FLAME OF LIFE
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘A work of genius, unique, astounding. There are passages that sweep one headlong, and the whole leaves an indelible impression.’
The Standard.—‘The pages are rich in symbolic imagery, in beautiful word-pictures of Venice, and are saturated by the spirit of the Renaissance in its most luxurious form.’
THE CHILD OF PLEASURE
The Academy.—’ ... Clever, subtle, to the point of genius.’
The Daily Mail.—‘A powerful study of passion, masterly of its kind.’
The Daily Graphic.—‘The poetic beauty and richness of the language make it a sensuous, glowing poem in prose.’
The Scotsman.—‘The strength of the book lies in the intensity with which the writer brings out the pleasures and pains of his creatures.’
THE VICTIM
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘No word but “genius” will fit his analysis of the mental history of the faithless husband.’
The Daily Chronicle.—‘The book contains many descriptive passages of rare beauty—passages which by themselves are lovely little prose lyrics.... It is a self-revelation; the revelation of the sort of self that D’Annunzio delineates with a skill and knowledge so extraordinary. The soul of the man, raw, bruised, bleeding, is always before us.’
THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH
The Pall Mall Gazette.—‘A masterpiece. The story holds and haunts one. Unequalled even by the great French contemporary whom, in his realism, D’Annunzio most resembles, is the account of the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin by the sick, deformed, and afflicted. It is a great prose poem, that, of its kind, cannot be surpassed. Every detail of the scene is brought before us in a series of word-pictures of wonderful power and vivid colouring, and the ever-recurring refrainViva Maria! Maria Evviva!rings in our ears as we lay down the book. It is the work of a master, whose genius is beyond dispute.’
THE VIRGINS OF THE ROCKS
The Daily Chronicle.—‘He writes beautifully, and this book, by the way, is most admirably translated. The picture he presents of these three princesses in their sun-baked, mouldering, sleepy palace is, as we look back upon it, strangely impressive and even haunting.’
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C.