THE END.
THENELSON LIBRARY OF COPYRIGHT NOVELS.Uniform with this Volume and Same Price.A Few Recent Volumes.SIR GEORGE TRESSADY.Mrs. Humphry Ward. “Sir George Tressady” is Mrs. Humphry Ward’s best romance of high politics. It is a story of a young member who is gradually won to Democratic ideas by the influence of a great lady—the “Marcella” of the earlier novel. It is a powerful study of the development of a fine character. The last chapters must remain as of the finest episodes in modern fiction.ROMANCE.Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer. “Romance,” which Mr. Joseph Conrad wrote in collaboration with Mr. F. M. Hueffer, is a story of the Spanish Main, and of the strange adventures of the young Kentish gentlemen among the old Spanish cities of the West. The story does not belie its title, for the very soul of romance breathes in every chapter.LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER.Mrs. H. Ward. In this remarkable novel Mrs. Humphry Ward has worked the life story of the famous Mademoiselle de Lespinasse into a modern setting. It is a study of modern society and high politics, and against this glittering background we have a very original and charming love story.WAR OF THE CAROLINAS.Meredith Nicholson.Mr. Meredith Nicholson has acquired a great reputation in America by works like “The House of the Thousand Candles,” in which the threads of romance are woven into the fabric of everyday life. The present book is pure comedy. It is the story of two friends who find themselves, unknown to each other, assisting on opposite sides in a war between the two daughters of the Governors of the Carolinas.KATHARINE FRENSHAM.Miss Beatrice Harraden.Miss Harraden, many years ago, made her reputation by “Ships that Pass in the Night” as a delicate and subtle portrayer of human life and an accomplished artist in feminine psychology. Without any cheap emotional appeal she has an unequalled power of attracting the attention and winning the affections of her readers. “Katharine Frensham” is an admirable example of this gift, and all lovers of sincere and delicate art will welcome it.FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.H. G. Wells.This is a good example of Mr. Wells’s scientific romance at its best. It is a story of the first landing of mortals in the moon; of the strange land they found there, the strange government, and the strange people. It is a nightmare, but one without horror. Mr. Wells’s imagination has created out of wild shapes and figments a world which has got an uncanny reality of its own. The story grips the reader in the first chapter and carries him swiftly to the end.PROFESSOR ON THE CASE.Jacques Futrelle.Mr. Jacques Futrelle has attained in America, by his detective stories, something of the reputation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this country. He has created a figure as original and wonderful as Sherlock Holmes. The Professor is a devotee of pure logic, and by acting on the principle that two and two always make four, is able to elucidate the most baffling mysteries.LOVE AND THE SOUL HUNTERS.J. O. Hobbes.The late Mrs. Craigie had a unique place among modern writers. She combined a brilliant wit and a remarkable gift of epigram with the mysticism of the spiritual life; a union of qualities of which we find traces in Disraeli’s best novels, and “Love and the Soul Hunters” is a typical example of her gifts.SECRET OF THE LEAGUE.Ernest Bramah.The publishers have much pleasure in presenting this brilliant novel in a cheap form in the hope that it may secure a wide popularity. It was first published some years ago under the title of “What Might Have Been,” but the author has since considerably revised and remodelled it. It is a study of the future of our politics under a Socialistic régime. It tells how the middle and upper classes were crushed under a dead weight of taxation; how a great league was formed to combat the evil; and how victory was won by a device which is at once ingenious and convincing. In the French phrase it gives the reader furiously to think, and even those who differ from the author’s forecast will delight in the stirring narrative and the many passages of trenchant satire.VALERIE UPTON.Miss A. D. Sedgwick.This is a study of one type of the American young woman, who, with the phrases of self-sacrifice and idealism always upon her lips, is radically cold-hearted and selfish. It is a brilliant character study, and the repellent figure of the daughter is relieved by the gracious character of her mother—a character which is in many ways one of the most subtle and attractive in modern fiction.FARM OF THE DAGGER.Eden Phillpotts.Dartmoor is as much Mr. Phillpotts’s own country by right of conquest as the Scottish Borders were Sir Walter Scott’s, and Exmoor the late Mr. R. D. Blackmore’s. The present tale deals with the time of the American War and the early years of the nineteenth century. It is the study of a feud between neighbours; a grim story of passion, relieved by a charming love tale. The atmosphere of the moors is wonderfully rendered, and the men and women of the tale have borrowed from their environment a kind of spacious strength. It is also a record of action and adventure, and combines the merits of a novel of character with those of a fine romance.EXPENSIVE MISS DU CANE.S. Macnaughtan.This is a comedy of a country house in which a number of present-day types appear, drawn with admirable insight and a touch of kindly irony. There is tragedy in the tale, but tragedy of the kind common in our modern world, which is unspoken and scarcely realized. The heroine is singularly sympathetic and carefully studied, and no reader will be able to avoid the spell of her charm.No. 5 JOHN STREET.Richard Whiteing.This book, which first brought Mr. Whiteing into fame, is the most realistic and powerful of modern studies of slum life.CLEMENTINA.A. E. W. Mason.The story of the romantic love match of the Old Pretender, the father of Prince Charlie, and how the bride was stolen and carried to Italy by the inimitable Captain Wogan. Mr. Mason is the true successor of the late Mr. Seton Merriman, and no man living can tell a better tale.THE AMERICAN PRISONER.Eden Phillpotts.A story of the great war with Napoleon. The scene is laid mainly in Devon, and since “Lorna Doone” there has been no better picture of the West Country and its people.JOHN CHARITY.H. A. Vachell.A story of California in the old days of the Spanish dominion.LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET.Miss Braddon.Miss Braddon’s first, best, and most powerful story—a story that shares with “East Lynne” the distinction of being the most widely-read novel of modern times.HIS HONOR AND A LADY.Sara J. Duncan.A story of high Indian politics, in which the great public servant, who knows no master but his conscience, is contrasted with the time-server, who succeeds where he fails, and steps into his shoes. The character of the Lieutenant-Governor is one of the finest modern studies of the best type of British administrator.THE MAN FROM AMERICA.Mrs. Henry de la Pasture.This “sentimental comedy” tells of an old French vicomte who lives in Devon, of his grandchildren, and of how the “man from America,” the son of a former comrade, appears as a providence to save his fortunes. Mrs. De la Pasture has few rivals in the delineation of the little worries and tragedies of social life.BYMrs. HUMPHRY WARD.MARCELLA.At a time when Socialism is in the air, this novel should be read with keen interest. Marcella is a beautiful, high-spirited girl who leaves her own class to devote her life to the service of the poor.THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM ASHE.This book has been universally acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant of modern social studies. The characters are in the main drawn from real personages; and apart from the dramatic interest of the story, much light is shed on certain aspects of modern political life. Its place is with the books that do not die, and it is the most attractive and brilliant of all Mrs. Ward’s novels.ROBERT ELSMERE.The famous book which is the parent of all modern theological speculations. Comparable in sheer intellectual power to the best work of George Eliot, and unquestionably the most notable work of fiction that has been produced for years.THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE.OLD GORGON GRAHAM.G. H. Lorimer.This is a pendant to the “Letters of a Self-Made Merchant,” which may be taken as the gospel of the American business man, and which has had an unprecedented success in the United States and in this country.THE HOSTS OF THE LORD.Flora Annie Steel.Mrs. Steel, after Mr. Rudyard Kipling, is the greatest novelist of India, and in this volume there is much of her best work. No writer has shown more vividly the contrast between the civilized life of the Anglo-Indian and the strange native world of ancient fears and famine around him.MOONFLEET.J. Meade Falkner.The dead Mohunes of Moonfleet, the smugglers who invade their vault, a secret cipher, and hidden treasure are amongst the ingredients of as spirited, fine-flavoured, and fascinating a tale as a man could wish to read.WHITE FANG.Jack London.The press says of “White Fang”:—“A masterpiece of its kind. It rivals, if it does not surpass, the most magical feats of Mr. Kipling’s genius.”—“A powerful and fascinating story.”—“A piece of work showing really amazing power.”OWD BOB.Alfred Ollivant.This is the saga of a dog, fully equal to Jack London’s “White Fang,” and unequalled since “Rab and His Friends.” It is “a fine open-air, blood-stirring book, to be enjoyed by all to whom a dog is dear.”And many other equally interesting works of fiction.
THE
NELSON LIBRARY OF COPYRIGHT NOVELS.
Uniform with this Volume and Same Price.
A Few Recent Volumes.
SIR GEORGE TRESSADY.Mrs. Humphry Ward. “Sir George Tressady” is Mrs. Humphry Ward’s best romance of high politics. It is a story of a young member who is gradually won to Democratic ideas by the influence of a great lady—the “Marcella” of the earlier novel. It is a powerful study of the development of a fine character. The last chapters must remain as of the finest episodes in modern fiction.
ROMANCE.Joseph Conrad and F. M. Hueffer. “Romance,” which Mr. Joseph Conrad wrote in collaboration with Mr. F. M. Hueffer, is a story of the Spanish Main, and of the strange adventures of the young Kentish gentlemen among the old Spanish cities of the West. The story does not belie its title, for the very soul of romance breathes in every chapter.
LADY ROSE’S DAUGHTER.Mrs. H. Ward. In this remarkable novel Mrs. Humphry Ward has worked the life story of the famous Mademoiselle de Lespinasse into a modern setting. It is a study of modern society and high politics, and against this glittering background we have a very original and charming love story.
WAR OF THE CAROLINAS.Meredith Nicholson.
Mr. Meredith Nicholson has acquired a great reputation in America by works like “The House of the Thousand Candles,” in which the threads of romance are woven into the fabric of everyday life. The present book is pure comedy. It is the story of two friends who find themselves, unknown to each other, assisting on opposite sides in a war between the two daughters of the Governors of the Carolinas.
KATHARINE FRENSHAM.Miss Beatrice Harraden.
Miss Harraden, many years ago, made her reputation by “Ships that Pass in the Night” as a delicate and subtle portrayer of human life and an accomplished artist in feminine psychology. Without any cheap emotional appeal she has an unequalled power of attracting the attention and winning the affections of her readers. “Katharine Frensham” is an admirable example of this gift, and all lovers of sincere and delicate art will welcome it.
FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.H. G. Wells.
This is a good example of Mr. Wells’s scientific romance at its best. It is a story of the first landing of mortals in the moon; of the strange land they found there, the strange government, and the strange people. It is a nightmare, but one without horror. Mr. Wells’s imagination has created out of wild shapes and figments a world which has got an uncanny reality of its own. The story grips the reader in the first chapter and carries him swiftly to the end.
PROFESSOR ON THE CASE.Jacques Futrelle.
Mr. Jacques Futrelle has attained in America, by his detective stories, something of the reputation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this country. He has created a figure as original and wonderful as Sherlock Holmes. The Professor is a devotee of pure logic, and by acting on the principle that two and two always make four, is able to elucidate the most baffling mysteries.
LOVE AND THE SOUL HUNTERS.J. O. Hobbes.
The late Mrs. Craigie had a unique place among modern writers. She combined a brilliant wit and a remarkable gift of epigram with the mysticism of the spiritual life; a union of qualities of which we find traces in Disraeli’s best novels, and “Love and the Soul Hunters” is a typical example of her gifts.
SECRET OF THE LEAGUE.Ernest Bramah.
The publishers have much pleasure in presenting this brilliant novel in a cheap form in the hope that it may secure a wide popularity. It was first published some years ago under the title of “What Might Have Been,” but the author has since considerably revised and remodelled it. It is a study of the future of our politics under a Socialistic régime. It tells how the middle and upper classes were crushed under a dead weight of taxation; how a great league was formed to combat the evil; and how victory was won by a device which is at once ingenious and convincing. In the French phrase it gives the reader furiously to think, and even those who differ from the author’s forecast will delight in the stirring narrative and the many passages of trenchant satire.
VALERIE UPTON.Miss A. D. Sedgwick.
This is a study of one type of the American young woman, who, with the phrases of self-sacrifice and idealism always upon her lips, is radically cold-hearted and selfish. It is a brilliant character study, and the repellent figure of the daughter is relieved by the gracious character of her mother—a character which is in many ways one of the most subtle and attractive in modern fiction.
FARM OF THE DAGGER.Eden Phillpotts.
Dartmoor is as much Mr. Phillpotts’s own country by right of conquest as the Scottish Borders were Sir Walter Scott’s, and Exmoor the late Mr. R. D. Blackmore’s. The present tale deals with the time of the American War and the early years of the nineteenth century. It is the study of a feud between neighbours; a grim story of passion, relieved by a charming love tale. The atmosphere of the moors is wonderfully rendered, and the men and women of the tale have borrowed from their environment a kind of spacious strength. It is also a record of action and adventure, and combines the merits of a novel of character with those of a fine romance.
EXPENSIVE MISS DU CANE.S. Macnaughtan.
This is a comedy of a country house in which a number of present-day types appear, drawn with admirable insight and a touch of kindly irony. There is tragedy in the tale, but tragedy of the kind common in our modern world, which is unspoken and scarcely realized. The heroine is singularly sympathetic and carefully studied, and no reader will be able to avoid the spell of her charm.
No. 5 JOHN STREET.Richard Whiteing.
This book, which first brought Mr. Whiteing into fame, is the most realistic and powerful of modern studies of slum life.
CLEMENTINA.A. E. W. Mason.
The story of the romantic love match of the Old Pretender, the father of Prince Charlie, and how the bride was stolen and carried to Italy by the inimitable Captain Wogan. Mr. Mason is the true successor of the late Mr. Seton Merriman, and no man living can tell a better tale.
THE AMERICAN PRISONER.Eden Phillpotts.
A story of the great war with Napoleon. The scene is laid mainly in Devon, and since “Lorna Doone” there has been no better picture of the West Country and its people.
JOHN CHARITY.H. A. Vachell.
A story of California in the old days of the Spanish dominion.
LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET.Miss Braddon.
Miss Braddon’s first, best, and most powerful story—a story that shares with “East Lynne” the distinction of being the most widely-read novel of modern times.
HIS HONOR AND A LADY.Sara J. Duncan.
A story of high Indian politics, in which the great public servant, who knows no master but his conscience, is contrasted with the time-server, who succeeds where he fails, and steps into his shoes. The character of the Lieutenant-Governor is one of the finest modern studies of the best type of British administrator.
THE MAN FROM AMERICA.Mrs. Henry de la Pasture.
This “sentimental comedy” tells of an old French vicomte who lives in Devon, of his grandchildren, and of how the “man from America,” the son of a former comrade, appears as a providence to save his fortunes. Mrs. De la Pasture has few rivals in the delineation of the little worries and tragedies of social life.
BYMrs. HUMPHRY WARD.
MARCELLA.
At a time when Socialism is in the air, this novel should be read with keen interest. Marcella is a beautiful, high-spirited girl who leaves her own class to devote her life to the service of the poor.
THE MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM ASHE.
This book has been universally acknowledged to be one of the most brilliant of modern social studies. The characters are in the main drawn from real personages; and apart from the dramatic interest of the story, much light is shed on certain aspects of modern political life. Its place is with the books that do not die, and it is the most attractive and brilliant of all Mrs. Ward’s novels.
ROBERT ELSMERE.
The famous book which is the parent of all modern theological speculations. Comparable in sheer intellectual power to the best work of George Eliot, and unquestionably the most notable work of fiction that has been produced for years.
THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE.
OLD GORGON GRAHAM.G. H. Lorimer.
This is a pendant to the “Letters of a Self-Made Merchant,” which may be taken as the gospel of the American business man, and which has had an unprecedented success in the United States and in this country.
THE HOSTS OF THE LORD.Flora Annie Steel.
Mrs. Steel, after Mr. Rudyard Kipling, is the greatest novelist of India, and in this volume there is much of her best work. No writer has shown more vividly the contrast between the civilized life of the Anglo-Indian and the strange native world of ancient fears and famine around him.
MOONFLEET.J. Meade Falkner.
The dead Mohunes of Moonfleet, the smugglers who invade their vault, a secret cipher, and hidden treasure are amongst the ingredients of as spirited, fine-flavoured, and fascinating a tale as a man could wish to read.
WHITE FANG.Jack London.
The press says of “White Fang”:—“A masterpiece of its kind. It rivals, if it does not surpass, the most magical feats of Mr. Kipling’s genius.”—“A powerful and fascinating story.”—“A piece of work showing really amazing power.”
OWD BOB.Alfred Ollivant.
This is the saga of a dog, fully equal to Jack London’s “White Fang,” and unequalled since “Rab and His Friends.” It is “a fine open-air, blood-stirring book, to be enjoyed by all to whom a dog is dear.”
And many other equally interesting works of fiction.