"Brilliant, highly-coloured sketches ... contains beyond doubt some of the best writing that has come from Mr. Grenville-Murray's pen."—St. James's Gazette."Limned audaciously, unsparingly, and with much ability."—World."Distinguished by their pitiless fidelity to nature."—Society."Extremely personal. The author, brilliant as were his parts, appears to have laboured under a delusion which obliged him to mistake personal abuse for satire, and ill-nature for moral indignation."—Athenæum."Some of Mr. Murray's trenchant blows do real service to the cause of public morality and order."—Daily Telegraph."Includes unvarnished portraits of various characters who have made a flutter in recent times in this little world of ours."—Vanity Fair.
"Brilliant, highly-coloured sketches ... contains beyond doubt some of the best writing that has come from Mr. Grenville-Murray's pen."—St. James's Gazette.
"Limned audaciously, unsparingly, and with much ability."—World.
"Distinguished by their pitiless fidelity to nature."—Society.
"Extremely personal. The author, brilliant as were his parts, appears to have laboured under a delusion which obliged him to mistake personal abuse for satire, and ill-nature for moral indignation."—Athenæum.
"Some of Mr. Murray's trenchant blows do real service to the cause of public morality and order."—Daily Telegraph.
"Includes unvarnished portraits of various characters who have made a flutter in recent times in this little world of ours."—Vanity Fair.
THE MISSES D'ORENBARRE EXHIBIT THEIR AVERSION TO FAT MEN AND SMOKERSTHE MISSES D'ORENBARRE EXHIBIT THEIR AVERSION TO FAT MEN AND SMOKERS:from"UNDER THE LENS."
VIZETELLY'S ONE-VOLUME NOVELS.In Crown 8vo, good readable type, and attractive binding, price 6s. each.
"The idea of publishing cheap one-volume novels is a good one, and we wish the series every success."—Saturday Review.
"The idea of publishing cheap one-volume novels is a good one, and we wish the series every success."—Saturday Review.
The Book that made M. Ohnet's reputation, and was crowned by the French Academy.PRINCE SERGE PANINE.By GEORGES OHNET.Author of "The Ironmaster."
Translated, without Abridgment, from the110th French Edition.
MR. BUTLER'S WARD.By MABEL ROBINSON.
"A charming book, poetically conceived, and worked out with tenderness and insight."—Athenæum."The heroine is a very happy conception, a beautiful creation whose affecting history is treated with much delicacy, sympathy, and command of all that is touching."—Illustrated News."'Mr. Butler's Ward' is of exceptional merit and interest as a first novel.... All the characters are new to fiction, and the author is to be congratulated on having made so full and original a haul out of the supposed to be exhausted waters of modern society.... A writer who can at the outset write such admirable sense and transform the results of much minute observation into so pathetic and tender a whole, takes at once a high position."—Graphic.
"A charming book, poetically conceived, and worked out with tenderness and insight."—Athenæum.
"The heroine is a very happy conception, a beautiful creation whose affecting history is treated with much delicacy, sympathy, and command of all that is touching."—Illustrated News.
"'Mr. Butler's Ward' is of exceptional merit and interest as a first novel.... All the characters are new to fiction, and the author is to be congratulated on having made so full and original a haul out of the supposed to be exhausted waters of modern society.... A writer who can at the outset write such admirable sense and transform the results of much minute observation into so pathetic and tender a whole, takes at once a high position."—Graphic.
THE CORSARS; OR, LOVE AND LUCRE.By JOHN HILL.Author of "The Waters of Marah," "Sally," &c.
"It is indubitable that Mr. Hill has produced a strong and lively novel, full of story, character, situations, murder, gold mines, excursions, and alarms. The book is so rich in promise that we hope to receive some day from Mr. Hill a romance which will win every vote."—Saturday Review.
"It is indubitable that Mr. Hill has produced a strong and lively novel, full of story, character, situations, murder, gold mines, excursions, and alarms. The book is so rich in promise that we hope to receive some day from Mr. Hill a romance which will win every vote."—Saturday Review.
COUNTESS SARAH.By GEORGES OHNET.Author of "The Ironmaster."
TRANSLATED, WITHOUT ABRIDGMENT, FROM THE 118th FRENCH EDITION.
"The book contains some very powerful situations and first-rate character studies."—Whitehall Review.
"The book contains some very powerful situations and first-rate character studies."—Whitehall Review.
BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN.By INA L. CASSILIS.Author of "Society's Queen," "Strangely Wooed: Strangely Won," &c.
NUMA ROUMESTAN; OR, JOY ABROAD AND GRIEF AT HOME.By ALPHONSE DAUDET.
TRANSLATED BY Mrs. J. G. LAYARD.
"'Numa Roumestan' is a masterpiece; it is really a perfect work; it has no fault, no weakness. It is a compact and harmonious whole."—Mr. Henry James.
"'Numa Roumestan' is a masterpiece; it is really a perfect work; it has no fault, no weakness. It is a compact and harmonious whole."—Mr. Henry James.
A MUMMER'S WIFE.A REALISTIC NOVEL.By GEORGE MOORE, Author of "A Modern Lover."
"A striking book, different in tone from current English fiction. The woman's character is a very powerful study."—Athenæum."'A Mummer's Wife,' in virtue of its vividness of presentation and real literary skill, may be regarded as in some degree a representative example of the work of a literary school that has of late years attracted to itself a good deal of the notoriety which is a very useful substitute for fame."—Spectator."'A Mummer's Wife' holds at present a unique position among English novels. It is a conspicuous success of its kind."—Graphic.
"A striking book, different in tone from current English fiction. The woman's character is a very powerful study."—Athenæum.
"'A Mummer's Wife,' in virtue of its vividness of presentation and real literary skill, may be regarded as in some degree a representative example of the work of a literary school that has of late years attracted to itself a good deal of the notoriety which is a very useful substitute for fame."—Spectator.
"'A Mummer's Wife' holds at present a unique position among English novels. It is a conspicuous success of its kind."—Graphic.
THE FORKED TONGUE.By R. LANGSTAFF DE HAVILLAND, M.A.Author of "Enslaved," &c.
THE THREATENING EYE.By E. F. KNIGHT.Author of "A Cruise in the Falcon."
In Large Crown 8vo, beautifully printed on toned paper, and handsomely bound, with gilt edges, price 7s. 6d., suitable in every way for a present,
An Illustrated Edition of M. Ohnet's Celebrated Novel,THE IRONMASTER; OR, LOVE AND PRIDE.
Translated from the146thFrench Edition and Containing 42 Full-Page Engravings by French Artists, Printed Separate from the Text.
"M. Georges Ohnet's 'Ironmaster' has proved the greatest literary success in any language of recent times, the author having already realised £12,000 from the French edition of the work."
"M. Georges Ohnet's 'Ironmaster' has proved the greatest literary success in any language of recent times, the author having already realised £12,000 from the French edition of the work."
"The Ironmaster" is published in small 8vo, without the Illustrations, price 3s. 6d.
Second Edition, in small 8vo, price 3s. 6d.A MODERN LOVER.By GEORGE MOORE. Author of "A Mummer's Wife."
In small 8vo, price 3s. 6d.CAROLINE BAUER AND THE COBURGS.FROM THE GERMAN.
IllustratedwithTwocarefully engravedPortraitsofCaroline Bauer.
"Caroline Bauer's name became in a mysterious and almost tragic manner connected with those of two men highly esteemed and well remembered in England—Prince Leopold of Coburg, the husband and widower of Princess Charlotte, afterwards first King of the Belgians, and his nephew, Prince Albert's trusty friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar."—The Times."Caroline Bauer was rather hardly used in her lifetime, but she certainly contrived to take a very exemplary revenge. People who offended her are gibbeted in one of the most fascinating books that has appeared for a long time. Nothing essential escaped her eye, and she could describe as well as she could observe. She lived in England when George IV. and his remarkable Court were conducting themselves after their manner, and she collected about as pretty a set of scandals as ever was seen."—Vanity Fair.
"Caroline Bauer's name became in a mysterious and almost tragic manner connected with those of two men highly esteemed and well remembered in England—Prince Leopold of Coburg, the husband and widower of Princess Charlotte, afterwards first King of the Belgians, and his nephew, Prince Albert's trusty friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar."—The Times.
"Caroline Bauer was rather hardly used in her lifetime, but she certainly contrived to take a very exemplary revenge. People who offended her are gibbeted in one of the most fascinating books that has appeared for a long time. Nothing essential escaped her eye, and she could describe as well as she could observe. She lived in England when George IV. and his remarkable Court were conducting themselves after their manner, and she collected about as pretty a set of scandals as ever was seen."—Vanity Fair.
Side-Lights
Fourth Edition, in Post 8vo, handsomely bound, price 7s. 6d.SIDE-LIGHTS ON ENGLISH SOCIETY:Sketches from Life, Social and Satirical.By E. C. GRENVILLE-MURRAY.
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CONTENTS:—I. FLIRTS. II. ON HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SERVICE. III. SEMI-DETACHED WIVES. IV. NOBLE LORDS. V. YOUNG WIDOWS. VI. OUR SILVERED YOUTH, OR NOBLE OLD BOYS.
"This is a startling book. The volume is expensively and elaborately got up; the writing is bitter, unsparing, and extremely clever."—Vanity Fair."Mr. Grenville-Murray sparkles very steadily throughout the present volume, and puts to excellent use his incomparable knowledge of life and manners, of men and cities, of appearances and facts. Of his several descants upon English types, I shall only remark that they are brilliantly and dashingly written, curious as to their matter, and admirably readable."—Truth."No one can question the brilliancy of the sketches, nor affirm that 'Side-Lights' is aught but a fascinating book.... The book is destined to make a great noise in the world."—Whitehall Review.
"This is a startling book. The volume is expensively and elaborately got up; the writing is bitter, unsparing, and extremely clever."—Vanity Fair.
"Mr. Grenville-Murray sparkles very steadily throughout the present volume, and puts to excellent use his incomparable knowledge of life and manners, of men and cities, of appearances and facts. Of his several descants upon English types, I shall only remark that they are brilliantly and dashingly written, curious as to their matter, and admirably readable."—Truth.
"No one can question the brilliancy of the sketches, nor affirm that 'Side-Lights' is aught but a fascinating book.... The book is destined to make a great noise in the world."—Whitehall Review.
Second Edition, with Frontispiece and Vignette, price 5s.HIGH LIFE IN FRANCE UNDER THE REPUBLIC:SOCIAL AND SATIRICAL SKETCHES IN PARIS AND THE PROVINCES.By E. C. GRENVILLE-MURRAY.Author of "Side-Lights on English Society," &c.
"Take this book as it stands, with the limitations imposed upon its author by circumstances, and it will be found very enjoyable.... The volume is studded with shrewd observations on French life at the present day."—Spectator."A very clever and entertaining series of social and satirical sketches, almost French in their point and vivacity."—Contemporary Review.
"Take this book as it stands, with the limitations imposed upon its author by circumstances, and it will be found very enjoyable.... The volume is studded with shrewd observations on French life at the present day."—Spectator.
"A very clever and entertaining series of social and satirical sketches, almost French in their point and vivacity."—Contemporary Review.
In Large Post 8vo, cloth gilt, price 9s.IMPRISONED IN A SPANISH CONVENT:AN ENGLISH GIRL'S EXPERIENCES.By E. C. GRENVILLE-MURRAY.
ILLUSTRATED WITH PAGE AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS.
The Rich WidowTHE RICH WIDOW (reduced from the original engraving).
Second Edition, in large 8vo, handsomely bound, with gilt edges, price 10s. 6d.PEOPLE I HAVE MET.By E. C. GRENVILLE-MURRAY.
Illustrated with 54 tinted Page Engravings, from Designs byFred. Barnard.
CONTENTS:—
"Mr. Grenville-Murray's pages sparkle with cleverness and with a shrewd wit, caustic or cynical at times, but by no means excluding a due appreciation of the softer virtues of women and the sterner excellences of men. The talent of the artist (Mr. Barnard) is akin to that of the author, and the result of the combination is a book that, once taken up, can hardly be laid down until the last page is perused."—Spectator.
"Mr. Grenville-Murray's pages sparkle with cleverness and with a shrewd wit, caustic or cynical at times, but by no means excluding a due appreciation of the softer virtues of women and the sterner excellences of men. The talent of the artist (Mr. Barnard) is akin to that of the author, and the result of the combination is a book that, once taken up, can hardly be laid down until the last page is perused."—Spectator.
An Edition of "PEOPLE I HAVE MET" is published in small 8vo, with Sixteen Illustrations, price 6s.
A BUCK OF THE REGENCYA BUCK OF THE REGENCY:from "DUTCH PICTURES."
"Mr. Sala's best work has in it something of Montaigne, a great deal of Charles Lamb—made deeper and broader—and not a little of Lamb's model, the accomplished and quaint Sir Thomas Brown. These 'Dutch Pictures' and 'Pictures Done With a Quill' should be placed alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes's inimitable budgets of friendly gossip and Thackeray's 'Roundabout Papers.' They display to perfection the quick eye, good taste, and ready hand of the born essayist—they are never tiresome."—Daily Telegraph.
"Mr. Sala's best work has in it something of Montaigne, a great deal of Charles Lamb—made deeper and broader—and not a little of Lamb's model, the accomplished and quaint Sir Thomas Brown. These 'Dutch Pictures' and 'Pictures Done With a Quill' should be placed alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes's inimitable budgets of friendly gossip and Thackeray's 'Roundabout Papers.' They display to perfection the quick eye, good taste, and ready hand of the born essayist—they are never tiresome."—Daily Telegraph.
In Crown 8vo, price 5s.DUTCH PICTURES, and PICTURES DONE WITH A QUILL.
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FORMING THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE CHOICER MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.
A SMALL NUMBER OF COPIES OF THE ABOVE WORK HAVE BEEN PRINTED IN DEMY OCTAVO, ON HAND-MADE PAPER, WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS ON INDIA PAPER MOUNTED.
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Uniform with the above Volume,UNDER THE SUN.ESSAYS MAINLY WRITTEN IN HOT COUNTRIES.ByGEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.
Illustrated with an etched Portrait of the Author, and various Page Engravings.
In One Volume, Demy 8vo, 560 pages, price 12s., theFifth EditionofAMERICA REVISITED,From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific;INCLUDING A SOJOURN AMONG THE MORMONS IN SALT LAKE CITY.By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.
ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY 400 ENGRAVINGS.
CONTENTS.
America Revisited"It was like your imperence to come smouchin' round here, looking after de white folks' washin."
"In 'America Revisited' Mr. Sala is seen at his very best; better even than in his Paris book, more evenly genial and gay, and with a fresher subject to handle."—World."Mr. Sala's good stories lie thick as plums in a pudding throughout this handsome work."—Pall Mall Gazette."A new book of travel by Mr. Sala is sure to be welcome. He possesses the happy knack of adorning whatever he touches, and of finding something worth telling when traversing beaten ground."—Athenæum."A pleasant day may be spent with this book. Open where you will you find kindly chat and pleasant description. The illustrations are admirable."—Vanity Fair."As for the style of this entertaining and lively book, it is exactly what we should have expected. The writer is full of life, observation, and swiftness to seize upon salient and characteristic points. His description of the Chinese quarter of San Francisco may be strongly commended."—Saturday Review."This brilliant work possesses an irresistible charm, difficult to define indeed, but none the less delightful. Reading it is like listening to a good talker—the usual slightly wearisome sense of reading is effaced by the vivaciousness of the style in which the cleverestfeuilletonisteof the day has narrated his experiences on the occasion of his last visit to America."—Morning Post."'America Revisited' is bright, lively, and amusing. We doubt whether Mr. Sala could be dull even if he tried."—Globe.
"In 'America Revisited' Mr. Sala is seen at his very best; better even than in his Paris book, more evenly genial and gay, and with a fresher subject to handle."—World.
"Mr. Sala's good stories lie thick as plums in a pudding throughout this handsome work."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"A new book of travel by Mr. Sala is sure to be welcome. He possesses the happy knack of adorning whatever he touches, and of finding something worth telling when traversing beaten ground."—Athenæum.
"A pleasant day may be spent with this book. Open where you will you find kindly chat and pleasant description. The illustrations are admirable."—Vanity Fair.
"As for the style of this entertaining and lively book, it is exactly what we should have expected. The writer is full of life, observation, and swiftness to seize upon salient and characteristic points. His description of the Chinese quarter of San Francisco may be strongly commended."—Saturday Review.
"This brilliant work possesses an irresistible charm, difficult to define indeed, but none the less delightful. Reading it is like listening to a good talker—the usual slightly wearisome sense of reading is effaced by the vivaciousness of the style in which the cleverestfeuilletonisteof the day has narrated his experiences on the occasion of his last visit to America."—Morning Post.
"'America Revisited' is bright, lively, and amusing. We doubt whether Mr. Sala could be dull even if he tried."—Globe.
Paris Herself Again
Seventh Edition, in Crown 8vo, 558 pages, attractively bound, price 3s. 6d., or gilt at the side and with gilt edges, 5s.
PARIS HERSELF AGAIN.ByGEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.
WITH 350 CHARACTERISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRENCH ARTISTS.
"The author's 'round-about' chapters are as animated as they are varied and sympathetic, for few Englishmen have the Frenchvervelike Mr. Sala, or so light a touch on congenial subjects. He has stores of out-of-the-way information, a very many-sided gift of appreciation, with a singularly tenacious memory, and on subjects like those in his present work he is at his best."—The Times."Most amusing letters they are, with clever little pictures scattered so profusely through the solid volume that it would be difficult to prick the edges with a pin at any point without coming upon one or more. Few writers can rival Mr. Sala's fertility of illustration and ever ready command of lively comment."—Daily News."'Paris Herself Again' furnishes a happy illustration of the attractiveness of Mr. Sala's style and the fertility of his resources. For those who do and those who do not know Paris these volumes contain a fund of instruction and amusement."—Saturday Review."This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala. Endowed with a facility to extract humour from every phase of the world's stage, and blessed with a wondrous store of recondite lore, he outdoes himself when he deals with a city like Paris that he knows so well, and that affords such an opportunity for his pen."—Truth."'Paris Herself Again' is infinitely more amusing than most novels, and will give you information which you can turn to advantage, and innumerable anecdotes for the dinner-table and the smoking-room. There is no style so chatty and so unwearying as that of which Mr. Sala is a master."—The World.
"The author's 'round-about' chapters are as animated as they are varied and sympathetic, for few Englishmen have the Frenchvervelike Mr. Sala, or so light a touch on congenial subjects. He has stores of out-of-the-way information, a very many-sided gift of appreciation, with a singularly tenacious memory, and on subjects like those in his present work he is at his best."—The Times.
"Most amusing letters they are, with clever little pictures scattered so profusely through the solid volume that it would be difficult to prick the edges with a pin at any point without coming upon one or more. Few writers can rival Mr. Sala's fertility of illustration and ever ready command of lively comment."—Daily News.
"'Paris Herself Again' furnishes a happy illustration of the attractiveness of Mr. Sala's style and the fertility of his resources. For those who do and those who do not know Paris these volumes contain a fund of instruction and amusement."—Saturday Review.
"This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala. Endowed with a facility to extract humour from every phase of the world's stage, and blessed with a wondrous store of recondite lore, he outdoes himself when he deals with a city like Paris that he knows so well, and that affords such an opportunity for his pen."—Truth.
"'Paris Herself Again' is infinitely more amusing than most novels, and will give you information which you can turn to advantage, and innumerable anecdotes for the dinner-table and the smoking-room. There is no style so chatty and so unwearying as that of which Mr. Sala is a master."—The World.
ZOLA'S POWERFUL REALISTIC NOVELS.In Crown 8vo, price 6s. each.
PIPING HOT!("POT-BOUILLE.")
Translated from the 63rd French edition. Illustrated with Sixteen Page Engravings by French Artists.
NANA:TRANSLATED WITHOUT ABRIDGMENT FROM THE 127th FRENCH EDITION.
Illustrated with Twenty-four Tinted Page Engravings, by French Artists.
Mr. HENRY JAMES on "NANA."
"A novelist with a system, a passionate conviction, a great plan—incontestable attributes of M. Zola—is not now to be easily found in England or the United States, where the story-teller's art is almost exclusively feminine, is mainly in the hands of timid (even when very accomplished) women, whose acquaintance with life is severely restricted, and who are not conspicuous for general views. The novel, moreover, among ourselves, is almost always addressed to young unmarried ladies, or at least always assumes them to be a large part of the novelist's public."This fact, to a French story-teller, appears, of course, a damnable restriction, and M. Zola would probably decline to takeau sérieuxany work produced under such unnatural conditions. Half of life is a sealed book to young unmarried ladies, and how can a novel be worth anything that deals only with half of life? These objections are perfectly valid, and it may be said that our English system is a good thing for virgins and boys, and a bad thing for the novel itself, when the novel is regarded as something more than a simplejeu d'esprit, and considered as a composition that treats of life at large and helps us toknow."
"A novelist with a system, a passionate conviction, a great plan—incontestable attributes of M. Zola—is not now to be easily found in England or the United States, where the story-teller's art is almost exclusively feminine, is mainly in the hands of timid (even when very accomplished) women, whose acquaintance with life is severely restricted, and who are not conspicuous for general views. The novel, moreover, among ourselves, is almost always addressed to young unmarried ladies, or at least always assumes them to be a large part of the novelist's public.
"This fact, to a French story-teller, appears, of course, a damnable restriction, and M. Zola would probably decline to takeau sérieuxany work produced under such unnatural conditions. Half of life is a sealed book to young unmarried ladies, and how can a novel be worth anything that deals only with half of life? These objections are perfectly valid, and it may be said that our English system is a good thing for virgins and boys, and a bad thing for the novel itself, when the novel is regarded as something more than a simplejeu d'esprit, and considered as a composition that treats of life at large and helps us toknow."
THE "ASSOMMOIR;"(The Prelude to "Nana.")TRANSLATED WITHOUT ABRIDGMENT FROM THE 97th FRENCH EDITION.
Illustrated with Sixteen Tinted Page Engravings, by French Artists.
"After reading Zola's novels it seems as if in all others, even in the truest, there were a veil between the reader and the things described, and there is present to our minds the same difference as exists between the representations of human faces on canvas and the reflection of the same faces in a mirror. It is like finding truth for the first time."Zola is one of the most moral novelists in France, and it is really astonishing how anyone can doubt this. He makes us note the smell of vice, not its perfume: his nude figures are those of the anatomical table, which do not inspire the slightest immoral thought; there is not one of his books, not even the crudest, that does not leave behind it pure, firm, and unmistakable aversion, or scorn, for the base passions of which he treats."—Signor de Amicis.
"After reading Zola's novels it seems as if in all others, even in the truest, there were a veil between the reader and the things described, and there is present to our minds the same difference as exists between the representations of human faces on canvas and the reflection of the same faces in a mirror. It is like finding truth for the first time.
"Zola is one of the most moral novelists in France, and it is really astonishing how anyone can doubt this. He makes us note the smell of vice, not its perfume: his nude figures are those of the anatomical table, which do not inspire the slightest immoral thought; there is not one of his books, not even the crudest, that does not leave behind it pure, firm, and unmistakable aversion, or scorn, for the base passions of which he treats."—Signor de Amicis.
The above Works are published without the Illustrations, price 5s. each.
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GERMINAL; OR, MASTER AND MAN.THE RUSH FOR THE SPOIL.THE LADIES' PARADISE.THÉRÈSE RAQUIN.
NanaTHE ARRIVAL OF THE ELEVEN YOUNG MEN AT NANA'S EVENING PARTY.
In large 8vo, handsomely bound and gilt, price 7s. 6d.A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF M. EMILE ZOLA'S REALISTIC NOVEL,NANA.
Illustrated with upwards of 100 Engravings, nearly half of which are full-page.
TO BE FOLLOWED BY ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS OFTHE "ASSOMMOIR," PIPING HOT!AND THE REST OF M. ZOLA'S MORE POPULAR WORKS.
In Crown 8vo, handsomely bound and gilt, price 6s., the Third and Completely Revised Edition ofTHE STORY OFTHE DIAMOND NECKLACE,
COMPRISING A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE COUNTESS DE LA MOTTE, PRETENDEDCONFIDANTE OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE, WITH PARTICULARS OF THECAREERS OF THE OTHER ACTORS IN THIS REMARKABLE DRAMA.
By HENRY VIZETELLY.Author of "Berlin Under The New Empire," "Paris in Peril," &c.
Illustrated with an Exact Representation of the Diamond Necklace, from a contemporary Drawing, and a Portrait of the Countess de la Motte, engraved on Steel.
"Mr. Vizetelly's tale has all the interest of a romance which is too strange not to be true.... His summing up of the evidence, both negative and positive, which exculpates Marie-Antoinette from any complicity whatever with the scandalous intrigue in which she was represented as bearing a part, is admirable."—Saturday Review."We can, without fear of contradiction, describe Mr. Henry Vizetelly's 'Story of the Diamond Necklace' as a book of thrilling interest. He has not only executed his task with skill and faithfulness, but also with tact and delicacy."—Standard."Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is true."—Notes and Queries.
"Mr. Vizetelly's tale has all the interest of a romance which is too strange not to be true.... His summing up of the evidence, both negative and positive, which exculpates Marie-Antoinette from any complicity whatever with the scandalous intrigue in which she was represented as bearing a part, is admirable."—Saturday Review.
"We can, without fear of contradiction, describe Mr. Henry Vizetelly's 'Story of the Diamond Necklace' as a book of thrilling interest. He has not only executed his task with skill and faithfulness, but also with tact and delicacy."—Standard.
"Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is true."—Notes and Queries.
In Large Crown 8vo, handsomely printed and bound, price 6s.THE AMUSING ADVENTURES OF GUZMAN OF ALFARAQUE.A Spanish Novel. Translated by EDWARD LOWDELL.
ILLUSTRATED WITH HIGHLY-FINISHED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL FROM DESIGNS BY STAHL.
"The wit, vivacity and variety of this masterpiece cannot be over-estimated."—Morning Post."A very well executed translation of a famous 'Rogue's Progress.'"—Spectator."The story is infinitely amusing, and illustrated as it is with several excellent designs on steel, it will be acceptable to a good many readers."—Scotsman.
"The wit, vivacity and variety of this masterpiece cannot be over-estimated."—Morning Post.
"A very well executed translation of a famous 'Rogue's Progress.'"—Spectator.
"The story is infinitely amusing, and illustrated as it is with several excellent designs on steel, it will be acceptable to a good many readers."—Scotsman.
In Crown 8vo, attractively bound, price 2s. 6d.THE RED CROSS, and other Stories.By LUIGI.
"The short stories are the best—Luigi is in places tender and pathetic."—Athenæum."The plans of the tales are excellent. Many of the incidents are admirable, and there is a good deal of pathos in the writing."—Scotsman.
"The short stories are the best—Luigi is in places tender and pathetic."—Athenæum.
"The plans of the tales are excellent. Many of the incidents are admirable, and there is a good deal of pathos in the writing."—Scotsman.
In Two Volumes, post 8vo, prices 10s. 6d.SOCIETY NOVELETTES.By F. C. BURNAND, H. SAVILE CLARKE, R. E. FRANCILLON, JOSEPH HATTON, RICHARD JEFFERIES, the Author of "A French Heiress in her own Château," &c. &c.
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In Demy 4to, handsomely printed and bound, with gilt edges, price 12s.A HISTORY OF CHAMPAGNE;WITH NOTES ON THE OTHER SPARKLING WINES OF FRANCE.By HENRY VIZETELLY.
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OUR GILDED YOUTH. ByE. C. Grenville-Murray——NICE GIRLS. ByR. Mounteney Jephson——NOBLE LORDS. ByE. C. Grenville-Murray——FLIRTS. ByE. C. Grenville-Murray——OUR SILVERED YOUTH. ByE. C. Grenville-Murray——MILITARY MEN AS THEY WERE. ByE. Dyne Fenton.
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Uniform with the above,THE OLD AGE OF LECOQ, THE DETECTIVE.By F. DU BOISGOBEY.
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IN PERIL OF HIS LIFE.
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THE LEROUGE CASE.
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"M. Gaboriau is a skilful and brilliant writer, capable of so diverting the attention and interest of his readers that not one word or line in his book will be skipped or read carelessly."—Hampshire Advertiser.
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
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"The interest is kept up throughout, and the story is told graphically and with a good deal of art."—London Figaro.
LECOQ THE DETECTIVE. Two vols.
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THE GILDED CLIQUE.
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"Full of incident and instinct with life and action. Altogether this is a most fascinating book."—Hampshire Advertiser.
THE MYSTERY OF ORCIVAL.
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"The Author keeps the interest of the reader at fever heat, and by a succession of unexpected turns and incidents, the drama is ultimately worked out to a very pleasant result. The ability displayed is unquestionable."—Sheffield Independent.
DOSSIER NO. 113.
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"The plot is worked out with great skill, and from first to last the reader's interest is never allowed to flag."—Dumbarton Herald.
THE LITTLE OLD MAN OF BATIGNOLLES.
THE SLAVES OF PARIS. Two vols.
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"Sensational, full of interest, cleverly conceived and wrought out with consummate skill."—Oxford and Cambridge Journal.
THE COUNT'S MILLIONS. Two vols.
INTRIGUES OF A POISONER.
THE CATASTROPHE. Two vols.
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THE OLD AGE OF LECOQ, THE DETECTIVE. Two vols.THE SEVERED HAND.IN THE SERPENTS' COILS.
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FROMONT THE YOUNGER & RISLER THE ELDER.ByA. Daudet.
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"The series starts well with M. Alphonse Daudet's masterpiece."—Athenæum.
"A terrible story, powerful after a sledge-hammer fashion in some parts, and wonderfully tender, touching, and pathetic in others."—Illustrated London News.
SAMUEL BROHL AND PARTNER.ByV. Cherbuliez.
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"M. Cherbuliez's novels are read by everybody and offend nobody. They are excellent studies of character, well constructed, peopled with interesting men and women, and the style in which they are written is admirable."—The Times.
"Those who have read this singular story in the original need not be reminded of that supremely dramatic study of the man who lived two lives at once, even within himself. The reader's discovery of his double nature is one of the most cleverly managed of surprises, and Samuel Brohl's final dissolution of partnership with himself is a remarkable stroke of almost pathetic comedy."—The Graphic.
THE DRAMA OF THE RUE DE LA PAIX.ByA. Belot.
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"A highly ingenious plot is developed in 'The Drama of the Rue de la Paix,' in which a decidedly interesting and thrilling narrative is told with great force and passion, relieved by sprightliness and tenderness."—Illustrated London News.
MAUGARS JUNIOR.ByA. Theuriet.
"One of the most charming novelettes we have read for a long time."—Literary World.
"One of the most charming novelettes we have read for a long time."—Literary World.
WAYWARD DOSIA, & THE GENEROUS DIPLOMATIST.ByHenry Gréville.
"As epigrammatic as anything Lord Beaconsfield has ever written."—Hampshire Telegraph.
"As epigrammatic as anything Lord Beaconsfield has ever written."—Hampshire Telegraph.
A NEW LEASE OF LIFE, & SAVING A DAUGHTER'S DOWRY.ByE. About.
"'A New Lease of Life' is an absorbing story, the interest of which is kept up to the very end."—Dublin Evening Mail."The story, as a flight of brilliant and eccentric imagination, is unequalled in its peculiar way."—The Graphic.
"'A New Lease of Life' is an absorbing story, the interest of which is kept up to the very end."—Dublin Evening Mail.
"The story, as a flight of brilliant and eccentric imagination, is unequalled in its peculiar way."—The Graphic.
COLOMBA, & CARMEN.ByP. Mérimée.
"The freshness and raciness of 'Colomba' is quite cheering after the stereotyped three-volume novels with which our circulating libraries are crammed."—Halifax Times."'Carmen' will be welcomed by the lovers of the sprightly and tuneful opera the heroine of which Minnie Hauk made so popular. It is a bright and vivacious story."—Life.
"The freshness and raciness of 'Colomba' is quite cheering after the stereotyped three-volume novels with which our circulating libraries are crammed."—Halifax Times.
"'Carmen' will be welcomed by the lovers of the sprightly and tuneful opera the heroine of which Minnie Hauk made so popular. It is a bright and vivacious story."—Life.
A WOMAN'S DIARY, & THE LITTLE COUNTESS.ByO. Feuillet.
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"Is wrought out with masterly skill and affords reading which, although of a slightly sensational kind, cannot be said to be hurtful either mentally or morally."—Dumbarton Herald.
BLUE-EYED META HOLDENIS, & A STROKE OF DIPLOMACY.ByV. Cherbuliez.
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"'Blue-eyed Meta Holdenis' is a delightful tale."—Civil Service Gazette.
"'A Stroke of Diplomacy' is a bright vivacious story pleasantly told."—Hampshire Advertiser.
THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS.ByA. Theuriet.
"The rustic personages, the rural scenery and life in the forest country of Argonne, are painted with the hand of a master. From the beginning to the close the interest of the story never flags."—Life.
"The rustic personages, the rural scenery and life in the forest country of Argonne, are painted with the hand of a master. From the beginning to the close the interest of the story never flags."—Life.
THE TOWER OF PERCEMONT AND MARIANNE.ByGeorge Sand.
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"George Sand has a great name, and the 'Tower of Percemont' is not unworthy of it."—Illustrated London News.
THE LOW-BORN LOVER'S REVENGE.ByV. Cherbuliez.
"'The Low-born Lover's Revenge' is one of M. Cherbuliez's many exquisitely written productions. The studies of human nature under various influences, especially in the cases of the unhappy heroine and her low-born lover, are wonderfully effective."—Illustrated London News.
"'The Low-born Lover's Revenge' is one of M. Cherbuliez's many exquisitely written productions. The studies of human nature under various influences, especially in the cases of the unhappy heroine and her low-born lover, are wonderfully effective."—Illustrated London News.
THE NOTARY'S NOSE, AND OTHER AMUSING STORIES.ByE. About.
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"Crisp and bright, full of movement and interest."—Brighton Herald.
DOCTOR CLAUDE; OR, LOVE RENDERED DESPERATE.ByH. Malot. Two vols.
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"We have to appeal to our very first flight of novelists to find anything so artistic in English romance as these books."—Dublin Evening Mail.
THE THREE RED KNIGHTS; OR, THE BROTHERS' VENGEANCE.ByP. Féval.