Chapter I: Sausages and Palaver

" II.--ILLUMINATION

" III.--WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH

" IV.--CALAMITY CAÑON

" V.--SPECULATIONS

" VI.--WHICH CONTAINS A MORAL

" VII.--OF BLOOD AND WATER

" VIII.--WHICH ENDS IN FLAMES

" IX.--"IS WRIT IN MOODS AND FROWNS AND
WRINKLES STRANGE"

" X.--THE DAUGHTERS OF THEMIS

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_BEING A MEMOIR OF_

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By EGERTON CASTLE

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BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS

By FRANK R. STOCKTON

AUTHOR OF "RUDDER GRANGE"

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_

GEORGE VARIAN AND B. WEST CLINEDINST

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By MAARTEN MAARTENS

AUTHOR OF "MY LADY NOBODY," ETC.

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_Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing Master during the French Revolution_

By S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D.

AUTHOR OF "HUGH WYNNE," ETC.

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"It is delightfully entertaining throughout, and
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OF THE

LADY ARABELLA

By M. E. SEAWELL

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_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"It is short and excellent reading.... Old
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_WORLD._--"Brisk and amusing throughout."

_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"A spirited romance.... It is the brightest tale
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_DAILY MAIL._--"A robust and engaging eighteenth century romance."

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_MORNING POST._--"There is a spirit and evident enjoyment in the
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_ACADEMY._--"A brisk story of old naval days."

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A

ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN

_AND OTHER STORIES_

By ROLF BOLDREWOOD

CONTENTS

A ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN

THE FENCING OF WANDAROONA: A RIVERINA REMINISCENCE

THE GOVERNESS OF THE POETS

OUR NEW COOK: A TALE OF THE TIMES

ANGELS UNAWARES

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"Eminently readable, being written in the breezy,
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_DAILY MAIL._--"As pleasant as ever."

_GLASGOW HERALD._--"They will repay perusal."

_SCOTSMAN._--"A volume of five short stories by Mr. Rolf Boldrewood
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THAT LITTLE CUTTY

_DR. BARRÈRE, ISABEL DYSART_

By MRS. OLIPHANT

AUTHOR OF "THE CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD," ETC., ETC.

_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"It has all her tenderness and homely humour, and
in the case of all three stories there is a good idea well worked
out."

_LITERATURE._--"To come across a work of Mrs. Oliphant's is to come
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_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"They are models of what such stories should
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_SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"Excellent examples of Mrs. Oliphant's
work."

_SCOTSMAN._--"All three stories have a fine literary flavour and an
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analyses of character."

_NORTHERN WHIG._--"Anything from the pen of the late Mrs. Oliphant
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THE FOREST LOVERS

A ROMANCE

By MAURICE HEWLETT

_SPECTATOR._--"_The Forest Lovers_ is no mere literary _tour de
force_, but an uncommonly attractive romance, the charm of which is
greatly enhanced by the author's excellent style."

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"Mr. Maurice Hewlett's _Forest Lovers_ stands
out with conspicuous success.... He has compassed a very remarkable
achievement.... For nearly four hundred pages he carries us along
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of which we are all too weary, opens a door out of this workaday
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deeds enacted there.... There is throughout the book that deeper
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whole."

_DAILY MAIL._--"It is all very quaintly and pleasingly done, with
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warm throughout as living human tissues, well deserves to be set
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of interpreting nature there are passages in this book that I have
never seen surpassed in prose fiction."

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THE

GOSPEL OF FREEDOM

By ROBERT HERRICK

AUTHOR OF "THE MAN WHO WINS," "LITERARY LOVE LETTERS, AND OTHER STORIES"

_DAILY MAIL._--"Distinctly enjoyable and suggestive of much
profitable thought."

_SCOTSMAN._--"The book has a deal of literary merit, and is well
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and the story is well constructed."

W. D. HOWELLS in _LITERATURE_.--"A very clever new novel."

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_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"A book which entirely interested us for the
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solution of any problem, nor in the promulgation of any theory, nor
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answers to the enigmas of existence. He simply tells a story and
leaves us to draw what conclusion we like. The admirable thing is
that his story is a particularly interesting one, and that he tells
it remarkably well.... There are some delightful minor characters."

_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"The characters, all American, have
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that we are hardly ever out of sympathy with her aspirations, and
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THE

GENERAL MANAGER'S

STORY

By HERBERT ELLICOTT HAMBLEN

_ILLUSTRATED_

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"Remarkable for the fulness of its author's
knowledge.... Nor does the interest of Mr. Hamblen's volume depend
solely on its vivid account of sensational escapes and dramatic
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and exact account of the everyday working of a great railroad....
There was not a page that we did not find full of interest and
instruction. It was all real, and most of it new, while Mr. Hamblen's
vivid and straightforward style does much to enhance the intrinsic
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able to leave the breathless and realistic account of such an episode
as the chase of the runaway engine--not a figment of the imagination,
but a sober and hideous fact, accounted for and explained by the
most intelligible of mechanical reasons--without a thrill of genuine
excitement."

_SCOTSMAN._--"Mr. Hamblen shows a mastery of detail, and is easy and
fluent in American railwaymen's jargon, much of it more expressive
than polite. His book is well written, instructive, and of thrilling
interest. There are almost a score of capital illustrations."

_DAILY MAIL._--"The pages are full of rough, but attractive,
characters, forcible language, brakemen, locomotives, valves,
throttles, levers, and fire-scoops; and the whole dashing record is
casually humorous amid its inevitable brutalities, and is of its kind
excellent."

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_WORLD._--"Better worth reading than half the romances published, for
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_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"A most interesting volume."

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THE CHOIR INVISIBLE

By JAMES LANE ALLEN

AUTHOR OF "SUMMER IN ARCADY," "A KENTUCKY CARDINAL," ETC.

_ACADEMY._--"A book to read, and a book to keep after reading. Mr.
Allen's gifts are many--a style pellucid and picturesque, a vivid
and disciplined power of characterization, and an intimate knowledge
of a striking epoch and an alluring country.... So magical is the
wilderness environment, so fresh the characters, so buoyant the life
they lead, so companionable, so well balanced, and so touched with
humanity, the author's personality, that I hereby send him greeting
and thanks for a brave book.... _The Choir Invisible_ is a fine
achievement."

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--Mr. Allen's power of character drawing invests
the old, old story with renewed and absorbing interest.... The
fascination of the story lies in great part in Mr. Allen's graceful
and vivid style."

_DAILY MAIL._--"_The Choir Invisible_ is one of those very few books
which help one to live. And hereby it is beautiful even more than by
reason of its absolute purity of style, its splendid descriptions of
nature, and the level grandeur of its severe, yet warm and passionate
atmosphere."

_BRITISH WEEKLY._--"Certainly this is no commonplace book, and I have
failed to do justice to its beauty, its picturesqueness, its style,
its frequent nobility of feeling, and its large, patient charity."

_SPEAKER._--"We trust that there are few who read it who will fail to
regard its perusal as one of the new pleasures of their lives.... One
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and feeling of most men and women, and which afford a gratification
that is far greater than that of mere critical approval. It is,
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sentiments, in design and in execution. Its chief merit lies in
the fact that Mr. Allen has grasped the true spirit of historical
romance, and has shown how fully he understands both the links which
unite, and the time-spaces which divide, the different generations of
man."

_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"Mr. James Lane Allen is a writer who cannot well
put pen to paper without revealing how finely sensitive he is to
beauty."

_BOOKMAN._--"The main interest is not the revival of old times, but a
love-story which might be of today, or any day, a story which reminds
one very pleasantly of Harry Esmond and Lady Castlewood."

_ATLANTIC MONTHLY._--"We think he will be a novelist, perhaps even a
great novelist--one of the few who hold large powers of divers sort
in solution to be precipitated in some new unexpected form."

_GUARDIAN._--"One of those rare books that will bear reading many
times."

_DAILY NEWS._--"Mr. J. L. Allen shows himself a delicate observer,
and a fine literary artist in _The Choir Invisible_."

_ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE._--"A book that should be read by all those who
ask for something besides sensationalism in their fiction."

_SPECTATOR._--"Marked by beauty of conception, reticence of
treatment, and it has an atmosphere all its own."

_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"It is written with singular delicacy and has an
old-world fragrance which seems to come from the classics we keep in
lavender.... There are few who can approach his delicate execution in
the painting of ideal tenderness and fleeting moods."

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Transcriber's Notes.

1. Italic text is indicated by _underscores_ and bold text by
=equal signs=.

2. Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as
possible.

3. Obvious punctuation, simple spelling, grammar, and typographical
errors have been silently corrected.

4. The spelling of some Maori words have been corrected.