Chapter VII: Part 7

=The Spectator.=--‘The emergence of a book so fresh, so original, and so wholesome, is peculiarly welcome. We can cordially recommend Miss Jacob’s powerful and engrossing romance. It deserves to rank along with _The House with the Green Shutters_ in the limited category of those tales of the countryside in which there is nothing provincial or parochial. Few novelists of recent years have set themselves so high a standard in their initial effort as Miss Jacob, whose work is singularly free from the faults of a novice. Her style is excellent--lucid, natural, unaffected; her energy is under control; she understands the art of self-effacement, of omission, of reticence, and she is as successful in dealing with her gentle as with her simple characters.’

IF I WERE KING

BY JUSTIN HUNTLY M‘CARTHY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Times.=--‘A novel of exceptional distinction; the scenes are fresh and vivid; the movement quick and natural; and, above all, the phrasing has almost a classical richness and carefulness of verbal selection. It is seldom that the style of a romantic novel brings it so near to literature.’

=The Spectator.=--‘Mr. M‘Carthy has made a tale out of his play, and it is a good tale. There is some excellent verse scattered up and down the book. He has experimented boldly and has succeeded.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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FOLLY CORNER

BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Mrs. Henry Dudeney is to be much congratulated. _Folly Corner_ is quite a delightful novel--a well-conceived story admirably told. Side by side with a notable story, the authoress places little pictures of Nature, of farm-life and country sights and sounds. Her descriptions of the life at _Folly Corner_ afford a keen and unusual pleasure. We come to the last page with a strong wish for more, and a lively and unsatisfied interest in the chief characters concerned.’

THE MATERNITY OF HARRIOTT WICKEN

BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=Literature.=--‘A notable book. Mrs. Dudeney has the power of translating a feeling, an impression into a few vivid words, which faithfully transmit her experience to the mind of the reader, and this is a great art.’

=The Daily Mail.=--‘The story is as singular as its title, and as strong as straightforward.... The drama haunts and grips us. There is humour in it, too, excellent humour. _The Maternity of Harriott Wicken_ is a story that has elemental human nature in every chapter, and, therefore, sinks deep in the mind.’

SPINDLE AND PLOUGH

BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Mrs. Dudeney has a power, as precious as it is rare, of conveying a whole scene in a few well-chosen words. Her observation is acute, her word-painting well-nigh exquisite.’

=The Spectator.=--‘Mrs. Dudeney possesses the inestimable art of grasping and holding the attention of her readers.’

THE COURTESY DAME

BY R. MURRAY GILCHRIST

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=Literature.=--‘It possesses all the sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral, but through it a thousand lights and shades of human passion are seen to play. The story will immediately grip the reader and hold him until he reaches the last chapter.’

=The Morning Post.=--‘Mr. Murray Gilchrist is an artist to the point of his pen, whose story is at once among the freshest and sweetest of recent essays in imaginative writing.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE HOSTS OF THE LORD

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Mrs. Steel’s latest wonderful romance of Indian life. It is ‘57 in little, and in our own day. Mrs. Steel has again subtly and keenly shown us how unique is her power of realising the unstably poised, the troubled half-and-half mind that is the key to the Indian problem.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘No one, not even the Kipling of an earlier day, quite does for India what Mrs. Steel does; she sees Indian life steadily, and sees it whole with a vision that is truthful, sympathetic. Such is the wealth of her observation that her page is rich with colour as an Eastern bazaar, and fragrant as a basket of quinces.’

VOICES IN THE NIGHT

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Times.=--‘It is the native mind which Mrs. Steel shows us as no other writer has done. She sketches in the native scenes with intimate detail, with ease in obtaining her effects.’

=Black and White.=--‘Mrs. Steel works on a crowded canvas, yet every figure stands out distinctly. _Voices in the Night_ is a book to be read carefully. It is a book to be kept and to be read more than once. It is a novel of the best kind, and deserves the attention of the readers who find nothing praiseworthy in the effusions of the popular successes.’

ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Spectator.=--‘We have read Mrs. Steel’s book with ever-increasing surprise and admiration--surprise at her insight into people with whom she can scarcely have been intimate, admiration for the genius which has enabled her to realise that wonderful welter of the East and West, which Delhi must have presented just before the Mutiny. There is many an officer who would give his sword to write military history as Mrs. Steel has written the history of the rising, the siege, and the storm. It is the most wonderful picture. We know that none who lived through the Mutiny will lay the book down without a gasp of admiration, and believe that the same emotion will be felt by thousands to whom the scenes depicted are but lurid phantasmagoria.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘A picture, glowing with colour, of the most momentous and dramatic events in all our Empire’s later history. We have read many stories having for their setting the lurid background of the Indian Mutiny, but none that for fidelity to fact, for vivacity of imagination, for masterly breadth of treatment, comes within half a dozen places of this.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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IN THE PERMANENT WAY

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Spectator.=--‘While her only rival in this field of fiction is Mr. Kipling, her work is marked by an even subtler appreciation of the Oriental standpoint--both ethical and religious--a more exhaustive acquaintance with native life in its domestic and indoor aspects, and a deeper sense of the moral responsibilities attaching to our rule in the East. The book is profoundly interesting from beginning to end.’

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A volume of charming stories and of stories possessing something more than mere charm. Stories made rich with beauty and colour, strong with the strength of truth, and pathetic with the intimate pathos which grows only from the heart. All the mystery and the frankness, the simplicity and the complexity of Indian life are here in a glowing setting of brilliant Oriental hues. A book to read and a book to buy. A book which no one but Mrs. Steel could have given us, a book which all persons of leisure should read, and for which all persons of taste will be grateful.’

FROM THE FIVE RIVERS

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Times.=--‘Mrs. Steel has evidently been brought into close contact with the domestic life of all classes, Hindu and Mahommedan, in city and village, and has steeped herself in their customs and superstitions.... Mrs. Steel’s book is of exceptional merit and freshness.’

=The Athenæum.=--‘They possess this great merit, that they reflect the habits, modes of life, and ideas of the middle and lower classes of the population of Northern India better than do systematic and more pretentious works.’

=The Globe.=--‘She puts before us the natives of our Empire in the East as they live and move and speak, with their pitiful superstitions, their strange fancies, their melancholy ignorance of what poses with us for knowledge and civilisation, their doubt of the new ways, the new laws, the new people, “Shah Sujah’s Mouse,” the gem of the collection--a touching tale of unreasoning fidelity towards an English “Sinny Baba” is a tiny bit of perfect writing.’

THE POTTER’S THUMB

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Globe.=--‘This is a brilliant story--a story that fascinates, tingling with life, steeped in sympathy with all that is best and saddest.’

=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘The impression left upon one after reading _The Potter’s Thumb_ is that a new literary artist, of very great and unusual gifts, has arisen.... In short, Mrs. Steel must be congratulated upon having achieved a very genuine and amply deserved success.’

=The Scotsman.=--‘It is a capital story, full of variety and movement, which brings with great vividness before the reader one of the phases of Anglo-Indian life. Mrs. Steel writes forcibly and sympathetically, and much of the charm of the picture which she draws lies in the force with which she brings out the contrast between the Asiatic and European world. _The Potter’s Thumb_ is very good reading, with its mingling of the tragedy and comedy of life. Its evil woman _par excellence_ ... is a finished study.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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RED ROWANS

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘Judge it by what canons of criticism you will the book is a work of art.... The story is simple enough, but it is as lifelike as anything in modern fiction. The people speak and act as people do act and speak. There is not a false note throughout. Mrs. Steel draws children as none but a master-hand can draw.’

=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘Far and away above the average of novels, and one of those books which no reader should miss.’

=The Daily News.=--‘The book is written with distinction. It is moving, picturesque, the character drawing is sensitive and strong.’

=Black and White.=--‘It reveals keen sympathy with nature and clever portraiture, and it possesses many passages both humorous and pathetic.’

THE FLOWER OF FORGIVENESS

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Academy.=--‘Nothing here ought to be neglected, for there is in most places something profitable for not too obtrusive exhortation, and almost everywhere something for enjoyment.’

=The Glasgow Herald.=--‘A clever book which should tend to widen Mrs. Steel’s circle among the reading public.’

=The Scotsman.=--‘They have a rich imaginative colour always.’

=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘Much sympathy with humanity however dark the skin, and a delicate touch in narrative, raise Mrs. F. A. Steel’s Indian Stories into a high rank. There is a pathos in them not common among Anglo-Indian story-tellers.’

MISS STUART’S LEGACY

BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Saturday Review.=--‘It throbs with the vigour of real creative power.’

=The Spectator.=--‘It is remarkably clever; it is written in a style which has ease, dignity, grace, and quick responsiveness to the demands of the theme; it has passages of arresting power and fine reticent pathos; and it displays a quick eye for character and a power of depicting it with both force and subtlety.’

=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A most faithful, vivid impression of Indian life.’

=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘A singularly powerful and fascinating story.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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BOWERY TALES

(George’s Mother, and Maggie.)

BY STEPHEN CRANE

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Morning Post.=--‘Mr. Crane never wrote anything more vivid than the story in which Maggie takes the heroine’s part. It is as admirable in its own field as _The Red Badge of Courage_ in another.’

=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Stephen Crane knew the Bowery very well, and in these two stories its characteristics come out with the realism of Mr. Arthur Morrison’s studies of the East End. Both are grim and powerful sketches.’

PICTURES OF WAR

(The Red Badge of Courage, and The Little Regiment.)

BY STEPHEN CRANE

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=Truth.=--‘The pictures themselves are certainly wonderful.... So fine a book as Mr. Stephen Crane’s _Pictures of War_ is not to be judged pedantically.’

=The Daily Graphic.=--’ ... A second reading leaves one with no whit diminished opinion of their extraordinary power. Stories they are not really, but as vivid war pictures they have scarcely been equalled.... One cannot recall any book which conveys to the outsider more clearly what war means to the fighters than this collection of brilliant pictures.’

THE OPEN BOAT

BY STEPHEN CRANE

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Saturday Review.=--’ ... The most artistic thing Mr. Crane has yet accomplished.’

=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Each tale is the concise, clear, vivid record of one sensational impression. Facts, epithets, or colours are given to the reader with a rigorousness of selection, an artfulness of restraint, that achieves an absolute clearness in the resulting imaginative vision. Mr. Crane has a personal touch of artistry that is refreshing.’

ACTIVE SERVICE

BY STEPHEN CRANE

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘The characters are admirably sketched and sustained. There is tenderness; there is brilliancy; there is real insight into the minds and ways of women and of men.’

=The Spectator.=--‘Mr. Crane’s plot is ingenious and entertaining, and the characterisation full of those unexpected strokes in which he excels.’

=The Academy.=--‘The book is full of those feats of description for which the author is famous. Mr. Crane can handle the epithet with surprising, almost miraculous dexterity. _Active Service_ quite deserves to be called a remarkable book.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE THIRD VIOLET

BY STEPHEN CRANE

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘We have never come across a book that brought certain sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as does _The Third Violet_, which introduces us to a farming family, to the boarders at a summer hotel, and to the young artists of New York. The picture is an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader, so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American cousins. _The Third Violet_ incidentally contains the best dog we have come across in modern fiction. Mr. Crane’s dialogue is excellent, and it is dialogue of a type for which neither _The Red Badge of Courage_ nor his later books had prepared us.’

AFRICAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT

BY A. J. DAWSON

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘His stories have the special attraction of stories of a country by a man who has knowledge of it and is under its fascination; and are good stories into the bargain. He has a pretty humour, and the gift of telling a story well, and special knowledge to work upon; the result is an entertaining book.’

=The Scotsman.=--‘The stories are all invented and written with that glow of imagination which seems to come of Eastern sunshine.... They are besides novel and readable in no ordinary degree, and they make a book which will not fail to interest every one who takes it up.’

THE STORY OF RONALD KESTREL

BY A. J. DAWSON

In One Volume, price 6s.

=The Athenæum.=--‘The sketches of life and scenery in Morocco and in New South Wales are attractive, the literary composition keeps a good level throughout. Mr. Dawson is a writer of ability who has seen men and things, and should go far.’

JOSEPH KHASSAN: HALF-CASTE

BY A. J. DAWSON

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘Since Mr. Kipling’s famous ballad, which emphasised the underlying unity of martial spirit common to East and West, we have read no more striking or suggestive study of Oriental and Occidental modes of thought than this work, which deals with their fundamental differences. The story is laid at first and last in Morocco, which the author knows better than most Englishmen. Mr. Dawson’s style is vivid and not without distinction. His work is virile as well as good reading: he can command both humour and pathos.’

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is strong, undeniably strong; a well-written book with many admirable character-studies. The book is undoubtedly a powerful one.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE LION AND THE UNICORN

BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Eight short stories, each of them written with a brilliance worthy of the author of _Soldiers of Fortune_, and each a perfect piece of workmanship. Every one of them has a striking and original idea, clothed in the words and picturesque details of a man who knows the world. They are genuine literature. Each is intensely fresh and distinct, ingenious in conception, and with a meaning compounded of genuine stuff. There is something in all of the stories, as well as immense cleverness in bringing it out.’

=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Stories of real excellence, distinctive and interesting from every point of view.’

SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

_In One Volume, price 6s. Illustrated._

=The Athenæum.=--‘The adventures and exciting incidents in the book are admirable; the whole story of the revolution is most brilliantly told. This is really a great tale of adventure.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘We turn the pages quickly, carried on by a swiftly moving story, and many a brilliant passage: and when we put the book down, our impression is that few works of this season are to be named with it for the many qualities which make a successful novel. We congratulate Mr. Harding Davis upon a very clever piece of work.’

THE NIGGER OF THE ‘NARCISSUS’

BY JOSEPH CONRAD

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=A. T. Quiller-Couch in Pall Mall Magazine.=--‘Mr. Conrad’s is a thoroughly good tale. He has something of Mr. Crane’s insistence; he grips a situation, an incident, much as Mr. Browning’s Italian wished to grasp Metternich; he squeezes emotion and colour out of it to the last drop; he is ferociously vivid; he knows the life he is writing about, and he knows his seamen too. And, by consequence, the crew of the _Narcissus_ are the most plausibly life-like set of rascals that ever sailed through the pages of fiction.’

THE INHERITORS

BY JOSEPH CONRAD AND E. M. HUEFFER

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘This is a remarkable piece of work, possessing qualifications which before now have made a work of fiction the sensation of its year. Its craftsmanship is such as one has learnt to expect in a book bearing Mr. Conrad’s name.... Amazing intricacy, exquisite keenness of style, and a large, fantastic daring in scheme. An extravaganza _The Inheritors_ may certainly be called, but more ability and artistry has gone to the making of it than may be found in four-fifths of the serious fiction of the year.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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JACK RAYMOND

BY E. L. VOYNICH

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘This is a remarkable book. Mrs. Voynich has essayed no less than to analyse a boy’s character as warped even to the edge of permanent injury by the systematic sternness--aggravated on occasion into fiendish brutality--of his guardian. We know nothing in recent fiction comparable with the grim scene in which the boy forces his uncle to listen to the maledictions of the Commination Service directed against himself. _Jack Raymond_ is the strongest novel that the present season has produced, and it will add to the reputation its author won by _The Gadfly_.’

THE GADFLY

BY E. L. VOYNICH

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Academy.=--‘A remarkable story, which readers who prefer flesh and blood and human emotions to sawdust and adventure should consider as something of a godsend. It is more deeply interesting and rich in promise than ninety-nine out of every hundred novels.’

=The World.=--‘The strength and originality of the story are indisputable.’

=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘A very strikingly original romance which will hold the attention of all who read it, and establish the author’s reputation at once for first-rate dramatic ability and power of expression.’

VOYSEY

BY R. O. PROWSE

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Standard.=--‘The analytical power displayed makes this book a remarkable one, and the drawing of the chief figures is almost startlingly good.’

=The Daily News.=--‘A novel of conspicuous ability.’

FROM A SWEDISH HOMESTEAD

BY SELMA LAGERLOF

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘The very strangeness of her genius is one of its chief charms. Her domain lies on the outskirts of fairyland, and there is an other-worldliness about her most real and convincing characters.’

=The Spectator.=--‘We are glad to welcome in this delightful volume evidence of the unabated vitality of that vein of fantastic invention which ran purest in the tales of Andersen. The influence of Gœthe’s _Wilhelm Meister_ is obvious in the longest and most beautiful story of the collection. But when all deductions are made on the score of indebtedness, the originality of plot and treatment remain unquestioned. The story is rendered touching and convincing by the ingenious charm and sincerity of the narrator.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE MANTLE OF ELIJAH

BY I. ZANGWILL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘Contains cleverness of a very varied kind--traits of fine imagination, of high spiritual feeling, keen observation, and a singular sense of discrimination in character and dialogue.’

=The Outlook.=--‘His story and the figures which people its pages are of a vivid and absorbing interest, instinct with life, and on every page some witty and memorable phrase, or trenchant thought, or vivid picture.’

THEY THAT WALK IN DARKNESS

BY I. ZANGWILL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Spectator.=--‘No reader, who is not blinded by prejudice, will rise from the perusal of this engrossing volume without an enhanced sense of compassion for, and admiration of, the singular race of whose traits Mr. Zangwill is, perhaps, the most gifted interpreter.’

=The Standard.=--‘These stories are of singular merit. They are, mostly, of a tragic order; but this does not by any means keep out a subtle humour; they possess also a tenderness ... and a power that is kept in great restraint and is all the more telling in consequence.’

DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO

BY I. ZANGWILL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=W. E. Henley in ‘The Outlook.’=--‘A brave, eloquent, absorbing, and, on the whole, persuasive book.... I find them all vastly agreeable reading, and I take pleasure in recognising them all for the work of a man who loves his race, and for his race’s sake would like to make literature.... Here, I take it--here, so it seems to me--is that rarest of rare things, _a book_.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It is hard to describe this book, for we can think of no exact parallel to it. In form, perhaps, it comes nearest to some of Walter Pater’s work. For each of the fifteen chapters contains a criticism of thought under the similitude of an “Imaginary Portrait.” ... We have a vision of the years presented to us in typical souls.’

THE MASTER

BY I. ZANGWILL

With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Queen.=--‘It is impossible to deny the greatness of a book like _The Master_, a veritable human document, in which the characters do exactly as they would in life.... I venture to say that Matt himself is one of the most striking and original characters in our fiction, and I have not the least doubt that _The Master_ will always be reckoned one of our classics.’

=The Literary World.=--‘In _The Master_, Mr. Zangwill has eclipsed all his previous work. This strong and striking story is genuinely powerful in its tragedy, and picturesque in its completeness.... The work strikes a truly tragic chord, which leaves a deep impression upon the mind.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO

BY I. ZANGWILL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Times.=--‘From whatever point of view we regard it, it is a remarkable book.’

=The Guardian.=--‘A novel such as only our own day could produce. A masterly study of a complicated psychological problem in which every factor is handled with such astonishing dexterity and intelligence that again and again we are tempted to think a really great book has come into our hands.’

=Black and White.=--‘A moving panorama of Jewish life, full of truth, full of sympathy, vivid in the setting forth, and occasionally most brilliant. Such a book as this has the germs of a dozen novels. A book to read, to keep, to ponder over, to remember.’

=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘The best Jewish novel ever written.’

THE KING OF SCHNORRERS

BY I. ZANGWILL

With over Ninety Illustrations by PHIL MAY and Others.

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Saturday Review.=--‘Mr. Zangwill has created a new figure in fiction, and a new type of humour. The entire series of adventures is a triumphant progress.... Humour of a rich and active character pervades the delightful history of Manasseh. Mr. Zangwill’s book is altogether very good reading. It is also very cleverly illustrated by Phil May and other artists.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It is a beautiful story. _The King of Schnorrers_ is that great rarity--an entirely new thing, that is as good as it is new.’

THE CELIBATES’ CLUB

BY I. ZANGWILL

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Mr. Zangwill’s _Bachelors’ Club_ and _Old Maids’ Club_ have separately had such a success--as their sparkling humour, gay characterisation, and irresistible punning richly deserved--that it is no surprise to find Mr. Heinemann now issuing them together in one volume. Readers who have not purchased the separate volumes will be glad to add this joint publication to their bookshelves. Others, who have failed to read either, until they foolishly imagined that it was too late, have now the best excuse for combining the pleasures of two.’

THE PREMIER AND THE PAINTER

BY I. ZANGWILL AND LOUIS COWEN

_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 in _propriâ personâ_.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE WORLD’S MERCY

BY MAXWELL GRAY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Speaker.=--‘Those who most admired _The Silence of Dean Maitland_ will find much to hold their attention, and to make them think in _The 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. If _The World’s Mercy_ is painful, it is undeniably forcible and dramatic, and it holds the reader from start to finish.’

THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN TREASURE

BY MAXWELL 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 Treasure_ is not a novel to be borrowed; it is a book to be bought and read, and read again and again.’

THE LAST SENTENCE

BY MAXWELL GRAY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Standard.=--‘_The Last Sentence_ is 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 through _The 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

BY MAXWELL GRAY

_In One Volume, price 6s._

LONDON; WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER

BY MAXWELL 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

BY EVELYN 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

BY FRANCES 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

BY DOROTHEA 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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GLORIA MUNDI

BY HAROLD 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 Mundi_ is 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

BY HAROLD FREDERIC

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Spectator.=--‘There is something more than the mere touch of the vanished hand that wrote _The Scarlet Letter_ in _Illumination_, 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

BY HAROLD FREDERIC

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Times.=--‘Harold Frederic stood head and shoulders above the ordinary run of novelists. _The Market-Place_ seizes 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

BY BERNARD 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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VIA LUCIS

BY KASSANDRA 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 Lucis_ is 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

BY ELIZABETH 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

BY ELIZABETH 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

BY DOLF 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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ST. IVES

BY ROBERT 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

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND LLOYD 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

BY LLOYD 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

BY C. 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE ASSASSINS

BY NEVILL 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 Assassins_ attracts 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

BY BASIL 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 same _mise-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

BY EDGAR JEPSON AND CAPTAIN D. 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

BY HAMLIN 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 Heart_ would suffice to win him a reputation. It is a fine book, instinct with humanity, quivering with strength, and in every fiber of it alive.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE BETH BOOK

BY SARAH GRAND

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=Punch.=--‘The heroine of _The Beth Book_ is 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 peruse _The Beth Book_ will 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

BY SARAH 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

BY SARAH 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.... _Ideala_ is 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

BY SARAH 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.=--‘In _Our Manifold Nature_ Sarah 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 Nature_ is 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE LAND OF COCKAYNE

BY MATILDE 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 as _The 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 as _The Land of Cockayne_ are epoch-making, voices that cry aloud in the wilderness of modern “literature,” and will be heard while others only cackle.’

THE BALLET DANCER

BY MATILDE 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 story _The 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 is _The Scourge-Stick_ the 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

BY E. LYNN LINTON

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Literary World.=--‘Whatever its exaggerations may be, _In Haste and at Leisure_ remains 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE LONDONERS

BY ROBERT 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 Londoners_ is 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

BY ROBERT 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

BY ROBERT 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

BY ROBERT 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 Slave_ is 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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FLAMES

BY ROBERT 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

BY BENJAMIN 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 story _Nude 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

BY H. 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 Rebel_ is 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

BY MARGARET 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 make _Sons of the Sword_ a 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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THE AWKWARD AGE

BY HENRY JAMES

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Outlook.=--‘In _The Awkward Age_ Mr. 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

BY HENRY JAMES

_In One Volume, price 6s._

=The Athenæum.=--‘In _The 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

BY HENRY 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

BY HENRY 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.’

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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WHAT MAISIE KNEW

BY HENRY 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

BY HENRY 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

BY HENRY JAMES