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* * * * *

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=THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA WING.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

* * * * *

BY INGRAHAM LOVELL.

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* * * * *

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* * * * *

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* * * * *

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* * * * *

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moving throughout, moves steadily to the close, describing
delicately and analytically the soul conflict of a man and a
woman, sundered and separate, with a yearning for each other’s
love.

* * * * *

BY F. J. RANDALL.

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* * * * *

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* * * * *

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* * * * *

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* * * * *

BY MARCELLE TINAYRE.

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story deals with a girl’s love and a heroic sacrifice dictated
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uncompromising in its delineation of certain hard, some might
say repulsive facts of life, yet instinct all through with an
exquisitely tender and beautiful passion of human interest and
human sympathy.

* * * * *

BY CLARA VIEBIG.

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_Daily Telegraph._—“The tale is powerfully told . . . the tale
will prove absorbing with its minute characterisation and real
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alive.”

_Daily Telegraph._—“Quite excellent.”

* * * * *

BY H. G. WELLS.

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* * * * *

BY MARGARET WESTRUP.

=ELIZABETH’S CHILDREN.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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=HELEN ALLISTON.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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=THE YOUNG O’BRIENS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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=PHYLLIS IN MIDDLEWYCH.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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or mirth.”

* * * * *

BY EDITH WHARTON.

=THE GREATER INCLINATION.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

_Daily Telegraph._—“Teems with literary ability and dramatic
force.”

_Outlook._—“Miss Wharton writes with a sympathy, insight and
understanding that we have seldom seen equalled.”

* * * * *

BY IDA WILD.

=ZOË THE DANCER.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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good English. Her style is often clever and brilliant. It shews
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* * * * *

BY M. P. WILLCOCKS.

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_Evening Standard._—“Wonderfully alive and pulsating with a
curious fervour which brings round the reader the very
atmosphere which the author describes. . . . A fine, rather
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_Queen._—“An unusually clever book.”

=THE WINGLESS VICTORY.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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=A MAN OF GENIUS.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

_Daily Telegraph._—“‘Widdicombe’ was good, and ‘The Wingless
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has given us something that should assure her place in the front
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_Punch._—“There is no excuse for not reading ‘A Man of Genius’
and making a short stay in the ‘seventh Devon of delight.’”

=THE WAY UP.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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attention more completely than any of Miss Willcocks’ three
previous novels.”

_World._—“The author has given us her best. This is a real
literary achievement, a novel in a thousand and a work of art.”

_Literary World._—“This is a novel that on every page bears the
hall-mark of a genius.”

* * * * *

BY F. E. MILLS YOUNG.

=A MISTAKEN MARRIAGE.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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=CHIP.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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_Athenœum._—“A tale . . . of unusual romantic interest.”

=ATONEMENT.= Crown 8vo. 6/-

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end is extraordinarily moving. The characters are human beings,
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exceptional and strong book.”

_Daily Chronicle._—“A vigorous and striking story . . .
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clear and incisive as it is in defining his characters.”

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TRANSCRIBER NOTES

Misspelled words and printer errors have been corrected. Where multiple spellings occur, majority use has been employed.

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