Part 2
=Ladies’ Pictorial.=--“The compiler of this dainty little volume has produced a veritable lucky bag for the dipper who is anxious to find something smart and clever.”
=Madame.=--“A book that should find favour on every woman’s table.”
=Literary World.=--“The epigrams are well selected, and should form a perfect armoury for any young bachelor put up to propose the toast of ‘The Ladies.’… There is good variety too.”
=_Dress in a Nutshell._= By “R.” A Booklet every woman who wishes to dress tastefully should certainly possess. Crown 16mo, cloth, 1s.; sewed, 6d.
=_Weeds and Flowers._= Poems by WILLIAM LUTHER LONGSTAFF, Author of “The Tragedy of the Lady Palmist.” Crown 8vo, art cloth, gilt extra, gilt top, 2s. 6d. nett.
=Sun.=--“Mr Longstaff has real fire and passion in all of his work. He has a graceful touch and a tuneful ear. There is exquisite melody in his metre.”
=Times.=--“He has passion and energy enough to stock half a dozen average minor poets.… But he has in him something of the stuff of which poetry--as opposed to verse--is made.”
=Court Circular.=--“Unquestionably a poet of a very high order--musical, suggestive, imaginative and picturesque. ‘In the Times to come’ is a beautiful poem, full of suggestion, with a subtle melody of its own. How well Mr Longstaff can write is seen in ‘A Hopeless Dawn.’ It is the work of a true poet. Mr Longstaff’s poems deserve more extended notice. There is art in his work, and music; and his verse is full of promise. Mr Longstaff’s muse is frank and sincere, and many of his readers will forgive her for not posing as a prude.”
=_Ballads of Ghostly Shires._= By GEORGE BARTRAM, Author of “The People of Clopton,” “The White-headed Boy,” etc. Dedication accepted by Theodore Watts-Dunton. Small 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. nett.
=Speaker.=--“We hail with the greatest pleasure Mr George Bartram’s ‘Ballads of Ghostly Shires.’”
=Academy.=--“His descriptive passages have the true poetic touch, and a fresh grace about them. He is, in truth, well worth reading, and has the distinction of writing narrative verse well in a lyric age. It is a breezy, picturesque, taking little book.”
=Athenæum.=--“Mr Bartram has the gift of description, and his vigorous narrative verse moves swiftly.”
=Sunday Sun.=--“Remarkable and beautiful poems. Enjoyable reading.”
=_Village Life and Feeling._= Songs and Verses. By RUPERT UPPERTON, the Ploughboy Poet. 2s. 6d. nett.
=Scotsman.=--“This is a pleasant and an interesting volume of healthy English verse.… The book deserves to be read, and will interest any curious lover of poetry.”
=North Star.=--“Amusing and instructive poems illustrative of village life. Those who are on the lookout for new recitations should examine this volume.”
=Glasgow Herald.=--“His humour and satire are genial and well-meaning. He is not without sentiment, and his lyrical pieces will be heartily appreciated.”
=Morning Leader.=--“There is some good stuff and not a little quaint feeling in the verses of Rupert Upperton.”
=St Andrew’s.=--“Many a simple soul--and there are millions of such in our land--utterly unable to appreciate the poetry of the critics, will find itself charmed, purified and elevated by the kindly muse of Mr Upperton. Messrs Greening & Co. have done their work well, and enshrined these ‘woodnotes wild’ in a beautiful piece of letterpress.”
HER MAJESTY’S EDITION
=_Rip Van Winkle_=, together with “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.” By WASHINGTON IRVING, and the Complete Literary and Theatrical History of the Story by S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD, Author of “Fame, the Fiddler.” With Portraits of Her Majesty’s Theatre Company, and Illustrations by W. G. MEIN. Dedicated to Mr H. Beerbohm-Tree. Crown 8vo, art cloth, decorative cover by Will Smart, top edge gilt, 2s.
=Bookman.=--“This edition of Irving’s famous legends is in every way to be commended. Type, paper and illustrations are good, and Mr Fitz-Gerald adds to the originals the stage and literary history of ‘Rip van Winkle,’ which is well worth reading.”
=Pall Mall Gazette.=--“A pretty and interesting little book.”
=Topical Times.=--“A really interesting memento, and it costs only 2s.--a perfectly absurd price for a book of this size and quality. Beautifully bound in green cloth, red lettered, it is well printed, and artistically illustrated by Mr Will G. Mein.”
Greening’s Masterpiece Library
“A handsome and artistic series.” _Vide_ Press.
=_Ringan Gilhaize._= A Romance of the Covenanters. By JOHN GALT. Edited, with an Introduction, by Sir GEORGE DOUGLAS. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d.
=St James’s Gazette.=--“The splendid panorama it gives of some of the most stirring and far-reaching events in Scottish history, and the skill shown by the author in so arranging his materials that the historic is always subordinated to the human interest, render the book in every way worthy of revival.”
=_Rasselas._= A Romance of Abyssinia. By Dr JOHNSON. Edited, with an Introduction, by JUSTIN HANNAFORD. Illustrated by W. S. ROGERS. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d.
=Morning Leader.=--“Well printed and pleasant to handle.”
=Globe.=--“A very acceptable edition. The text is set forth in large, bold type; Mr W. S. Rogers supplies eight graphic illustrations, while Mr Justin Hannaford furnishes an introduction in which the literary history of the story is pleasantly recounted.”
=_Vathek._= An Eastern Romance. By WILLIAM BECKFORD. Edited, with an Introduction, by JUSTIN HANNAFORD. Illustrated by W. S. ROGERS. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3s 6d.
=Saturday Review.=--“A work of vivid and picturesque imagination, great power, and no small originality. It is saturated with the fragrance and voluptuousness of the East.”
=Outlook.=--“In the way of Eastern romances ‘Vathek’ has always easily stood first. The present edition is handsomely got up, and contains several well-executed illustrations.”
=_The Black Tulip._= A Romance of Old Holland. By ALEXANDRE DUMAS. Newly done into English, with Introduction, by S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD. Illustrated by JOHN HASSALL. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
=Sun.=--“A delightful edition artistically bound and attractively got up. Mr John Hassall is seen at his best in the illustrations.”
=Glasgow Herald.=--“We recommend it, not only as one of the most interesting, but as without exception, and in every sense of the word, the most readable of Dumas’s works.”
=_The Epicurean._= A Tale of Mystery and Adventure. By THOMAS MOORE. Edited, with an Introduction, by JUSTIN HANNAFORD. Illustrated by WILL SMART. 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 3s. 6d.
=Bookman.=--“An interesting, well-produced reprint of Moore’s popular Eastern romance.”
=Great Thoughts.=--“It is as bright, and fresh and entertaining as when first it took the reading world by storm in 1827.”
=Whitehall Review.=--“This reprint is welcome, and the manner in which it is printed, bound and produced, is a credit to the eminent firm who are responsible for the edition.”
=_Salathiel;_= or, The Immortal. A Wonderful Romance of Old Palestine. By Dr GEO. CROLY. Edited and revised, with an Introduction, by Rev. T. A. SEED. Illustrated by W. G. MEIN. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (In preparation.)
=_Asmodeus;_= or, The Devil on Two Sticks. An Illustrated Edition of the Celebrated Novel by LE SAGE, Author of “Gil Blas.” Edited by JUSTIN HANNAFORD. Illustrated by JOHN HASSALL. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (In preparation.)
=_Colomba._= A Corsican Romance. By PROSPER MERIMÉE, Author of “Carmen.” Edited, with an Introduction, by Rev. T. A. SEED. Illustrated by W. S. ROGERS. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (In preparation.)
_Several well-known and popular works by great writers are in active preparation for this artistic series of masterpieces._
POPULAR FICTION
=An Obscure Apostle.= A Powerful and Dramatic Tale, translated from the Polish of Mdme. ORZESZKO by Count S. C. de SOISSONS. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Saturday Review.=--“An absorbing and delightful story, and we are sure it will be read with the greatest pleasure by those who can best appreciate the merits of the finer kinds of fiction.”
=British Weekly.=--“A good story, dramatic, poetic and pathetic.”
=Daily Graphic.=--“An admirable translation of a fine, intensely human tragedy. One reads it from first to last entirely fascinated.”
=Bookman.=--“A deeply impressive story it is, and if Madame Orzeszko has written others equally good, we must hope Count de Soissons will translate them for us.”
=St James’s Gazette.=--“A curious and interesting story, which, apart from its power, deserves notice because of the novelty of its material. The jaded appetite, weary of English drawing-rooms, Californian mines, and Indian flirtations, will here find an absolutely fresh _entourage_ to a very remarkable story.… It is pictorial, poetic and dramatic.”
=The Modern Argonauts.= A Novel. By ELIZA ORZESZKO, Author of “An Obscure Apostle.” Translated from the Polish by Count S. C. de SOISSONS. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Liverpool Review.=--“‘The Modern Argonauts’ is a remarkable piece of fiction; a work of powerful conception, of original and charming expression, and of noble and exhilarating thought.”
=Spectator.=--“Madame Orzeszko paints in ‘The Modern Argonauts’ the domestic tragedy of a successful modern millionaire with a boldness and a vigour that remind one of Jokai. The characterisation shows the influence of modern ideas in their most advanced and disintegrating form.… It is a luridly picturesque problem novel.”
=Daily News.=--“The picture which Madame Orzeszko presents, painted on impressionist lines, with suggestions of the symbolistic school, is distinctly striking.… Each of the characters in this stirring work is individualised with great skill.”
=Daily Chronicle.=--“A powerful story, clever and amusing.”
=Dundee Courier.=--“The story is powerful; the English vigorous; the moral commendable.”
=Evening Times.=--“Its power fascinates us. The originality of the conception, the skill with which the characters are drawn, and the vigour and vividness of the writing testify not only to keen insight into human nature, but to Madame Orzeszko’s maintenance to the eve of threescore years rare and youthful freshness.”
=A Girl of the North.= A Tale of London and Canada. By HELEN MILECETE. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Saturday Review.=--“It is piquant and up-to-date. Miss Milecete’s style is engagingly direct and simple, and she has a natural talent for story-telling.”
=Topical Times.=--“A pretty story, charmingly written.… It is pleasant to read, mainly because it is well written, but its glimpses of existence in Canada and West End life do not lack either picturesqueness or humour.”
=Outlook.=--“There is some clever writing in this novel, and the Canadian chapters are particularly fresh and picturesque.”
=An Exile in Bohemia.= A powerful and enthralling Novel. By ERNEST E. WILLIAMS, Author of “Made in Germany,” etc., etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=A Detached Pirate.= A Novel. By HELEN MILECETE, Author of “A Girl of the North.” Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Ladies’ Pictorial.=--“A clever and audacious book. The story is told in letters, and very clever letters they are … Miss Vandeleur is not _nervy_, and I prefer her wholesome audacity to the wild wailing of ‘The Love Letters of an Englishwoman.’”
=Court Circular.=--“A bright and fascinating book.”
=Truth.=--“A light and bright modern story of a _divorcée_ with herself as co-respondent. Her habit of masquerading as a man got her into this truly American scrape, and the truly American way in which she got out of it and was re-united to her Othello, is told in the difficult form of letters with a spirit worthy of so whimsical a plot.”
=Committed to His Charge.= A Canadian Romance. By KATE and ROBINA LIZARS. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Athenæum.=--“This book is decidedly interesting. The authors have a very pleasant gift of gaiety and an agreeable way of expressing themselves.”
=Daily News.=--“Both interesting and amusing.”
=Record.=--“Very clever and humorous.”
=Daily Graphic.=--“A clever and entertaining novel.”
=Christian World.=--“The incidents connected with the four years’ rectorship of Tom Huntley are cleverly arranged and as cleverly told.… We have nothing but praise for this book, which is strongly suggestive of George Eliot’s ‘Scenes from Clerical Life.’”
=His Grace’s Grace.= A Powerful Novel. By the Author of “The Hypocrite,” “Miss Malevolent,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Where the Oranges Grow.= A Humorous Novel. By N. A. LEYKEN (the Russian Mark Twain). Translated from the original by Count S. C. de SOISSONS. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=The Tragedy of a Pedigree.= An Interesting Story. By HUGO AMES. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Sketch.=--“Such easy epigrammatic talk as is to be found in this book is not often met with. It is witty and delightful, and the characters seem to be drawn from life with a master-pen.”
=Scotsman.=--“An excellent story, well written and easily read.”
=Sunday Special.=--“Can be recommended as a bright, terse, epigrammatic novel of to-day. There are so few writers who are capable of constructing a neat and telling epigram that the present volume is doubly welcome.”
=Vanity Fair.=--“This novel is entertaining, suggestive, gently cynical and quick with promise.”
=Madame.=--“It is a crisp delineation of modern social life, abounding in excellent characterisation, sparkling dialogue and epigrams that are new and smart. There is scarcely a page of the book that does not contain a sentence worth reading a second time and then marking with pencil for another perusal.”
=Red Fate.= A Powerful Novel. By EDMUND FORBES. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.
=Daily Despatch.=--“In ‘Red Fate’ we have a daring book. Messrs Greening have in Mr Forbes the writer of a strong book that will cause some talk.”
=The Scotsman.=--“The story possesses the merits of freshness, originality and ingenuity. It is written in an animated and picturesque style, and is full of life and incident.”
=Onlooker.=--“Mr Edmund Forbes has drawn a striking study, and his style and language are always most scholarly. Grellier is a real and living character. It is a book that could only have been written by one endowed with the imagination and musical pen that betray the poet.”
=The Prettiness of Fools.= A Realistic and Powerful Novel. By EDGAR HEWITT. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Literary World.=--“Very entertaining reading.”
=Dundee Advertiser.=--“A singularly strong story.”
=Morning Post.=--“An ambitious book, ambitious in its style and in the bold way it affects to tackle matters which are generally reserved for private conversation. At the same time it were ungracious to deny that Mr Edgar Hewitt has written a very clever book, full of keen observation, and not unseasoned with humour.”
=Gentlewoman.=--“A powerful and interesting book, with the interest kept up till the end … altogether a very amusing and clever book.”
=The Magnetism of Sin.= A Tale Founded on Fact. By “ÆSCULAPIUS.” Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Midland Mail.=--“An interesting story.… Exceedingly well written.”
=Daily Despatch.=--“‘The Magnetism of Sin’ is a story as choke full of mystery as any tale could be.… The author of the book--who is obviously a very daring young man--has written a story which is as remarkable in its way as ‘The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.’”
=Evening News= (Manchester).--“Lovers of the sensational in fiction will find plenty to interest them in ‘The Magnetism of Sin.’… The story is full of romance and dramatic incident, the chapters dealing with the raid on the house by the police, the fight for liberty, the bold escape of the double-dyed traitor, and his subsequent capture and execution in Australia being particularly thrilling.”
=The After-Taste.= A Novel. By COMPTON READE, Author of “Hard Lines,” “Under which King,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
Dr PARKER (of the City Temple) says:--“From beginning to end the action of the story is most vivid and most natural. It must certainly win itself many readers.”
=Literary World.=--“This novel is decidedly above the average.”
=Daily Graphic.=--“Amply repays for the reading, for it is written with a keen sense of the fitness of things, and without setting probability at nought--qualities not too frequently found in novels. It is written in a sympathetic style, and keeps the attention centred in the interesting career of the heroine.”
=Daughters of Pleasure.= A Novel. By ANNA, COMTESSE DE BRÉMONT. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.
=Topical Times.=--“Brisk and spicy without being blatant and salacious … a very good book, which says a lot of things that wanted saying frankly but delicately. It is, at the same time, an engrossing romance.”
=Globe.=--“Readers will find plenty of cleverness and ‘go,’ the Bohemian side of artistic life being described with verisimilitude as well as graphic force.”
=Books of To-day.=--“A story of deep human interest, set forth with undoubted literary talent, sense of style, and an ability to handle pure narrative that is rare and welcome. A book which can not only be read with interest, but re-read.”
=The Seekers Of Sentiment.= A Series of Powerful Stories. By a “WESTMINSTER SCHOOLBOY.” Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=The Power of the Past.= A Novel. By DAISY HUGH PRYCE, Author of “The Pasha,” “Goddesses Three,” “Valda Hanem,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.
=A Son of Africa.= A Tale of Marvellous Adventures. By ANNA, COMTESSE DE BRÉMONT, Author of “Daughters of Pleasure,” “The Gentleman Digger,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Morning Post.=--“Written with unmistakable power.”
=Weekly Times.=--“Deserves to be the success of the season.”
=World.=--“Contains striking incidents graphically related. We cannot fail to admire the ingenuity displayed by the writer.”
=St James’s Gazette.=--“A strange and weird story is ‘A Son of Africa,’ the latest from the pen of Anna, Comtesse de Brémont, author of ‘The Gentleman Digger.’ From the writer of that story we expect and get vivid word-pictures and local colouring. The descriptions of scenery and incident are wonderfully striking and impressive.… Such is the story of ‘A Son of Africa’ in brief outline. The filling in is sometimes lurid, but always forceful. It is written with power and grip.”
=The Gentleman Digger.= Realistic Pictures of Life in Johannesburg. By ANNA, COMTESSE DE BRÉMONT, Author of “A Son of Africa,” etc. New Edition, revised to date, with a new Preface. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Academy.=--“The Comtesse de Brémont presents us with a terribly realistic picture of life in Johannesburg during the raging of the gold fever.”
=Daily Telegraph.=--“Those who like a good story, pleasantly told, should read ‘The Gentleman Digger.’… Readers who turn their attention to this volume will, apart from the interesting plot, gain much insight into the manners and customs of a land which is only just breaking into civilisation as we understand it.”
=Spectator.=--“The characters are true to life, and the narration is continuous and spirited. The Comtesse de Brémont knows how to describe people and places, and there is local colouring.”
=Cynthia’s Damages.= A Story of Stage-_craft_. By REGINALD TURNER. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.
=In The World of Mimes.= A Story of Theatrical Life. By LEWIS MELVILLE, Author of “The Life of Thackeray,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Mora:= One Woman’s History. An Interesting Novel by T. W. SPEIGHT, Author of “The Crime in the Wood,” “The Mysteries of Heron Dyke,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
=Scotsman.=--“One may run through the story of ‘Mora’ with considerable enjoyment of the brisk development of an amusing little drama.… It is clever in contrivance, and lively and entertaining.”
=Athenæum.=--“The story is pleasing and wholesome. Its general character is that of a comedy with occasional lapses into the realm of drama.… ‘Mora’ is quite like literature, with some amusing scenes, and a general prevalence of good temper.”
=Two Days in a Life-time.= a Novel. By T. W. SPEIGHT, Author of “Mora,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
=For Himself Alone.= A Novel. By T. W. SPEIGHT, Author of “The Mystery of Heron Dyke,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Ashes Tell no Tales.= A Novel. By Mrs ALBERT S. BRADSHAW, Author of “False Gods,” “The Gates of Temptation,” “Wife or Slave,” etc. Cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Lady.=--“A strong and dramatic novel.”
=Record.=--“The story shows great power and the character of Julie is a wonderful creation.”
=North Star.=--“The book is considerably above the average, and bears evidence of insight into character and skill in plot construction of no mean order. The story has a thrilling interest, and is dramatically told.”
=Ira Lorraine.= A Story of To-day. By CORALIE FEVEZ. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.
=Illustrated London News.=--“Full of incident and movement.”
=Weekly Despatch.=--“This is a very pretty love story charmingly told. The characters are cleverly drawn. There are, of course, trials, and the lights and shadows of a woman’s troubled career, but what love story was ever written without its trials and the inevitable ‘all’s well’? In the case of ‘Ira Lorraine’ the end is satisfactory.”
=A Comedy of Temptation;= or, The Amateur Fiend. A Tale. By TRISTRAM COUTTS, Author of “The Pottle Papers.” Cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Daily News.=--“A very bright and breezy little story, wholesome and amusing.”
=Athenæum.=--“May be heartily recommended. A really ingenious story, and provides quite pleasurable excitement, while throughout the book runs a vein of facetious humour which will make it doubly welcome.”
=Echo.=--“A very sprightly tale, which, despite the extravagance of its leading motive, is full of humour--good humour and human nature.”
=Daily Telegraph.=--“The author of the unquestionably humorous and conspicuously successful ‘Pottle Papers’ has given the novel-reading public another ‘taste of his quality’ in this fantastic story.… The element of surprise predominates throughout this eminently entertaining narrative; unexpectedness is the essential characteristic of all its more salient incidents, comical or tragical; its dialogue sparkles with genuine, irresistible fun.”
=Spectator.=--“Mr Tristram Coutts has a genuine gift of humour, and his account of the chequered courtship of a young London clerk is enlivened with many hilarious touches. The account of the household of Mr Merridew, the irrepressible, if impecunious, optimist who named all his numerous progeny after famous commanders and authors, is really delightful.”
=The Weird Well.= A Tale of To-day. By Mrs ALEC M’MILLAN, Author of “The Evolution of Daphne,” “So Runs my Dream,” etc. Art cloth, 3s. 6d.
=Scotsman.=--“Carefully constructed and written with skill, which makes it always agreeable to read.”
=Literary World.=--“An interesting, brightly-written story.”
=Weekly Times.=--“Very powerfully written. Will be read with breathless interest.”
=Such is the Law.= An Interesting Story. By MARIE M. SADLEIR, Author of “An Uncanny Girl,” etc. Cloth, 6s.
=Vanity Fair.=--“A very entertaining novel.”