Part 14
=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._