Part 15
=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
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘All the stories are told by a man whose heart and soul are in his profession of literature.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘The appearance of _Terminations_ will in no way shake the general belief in Mr. Henry James’s accomplished touch and command of material. On the contrary, it confirms conclusions long since foregone, and will increase the respect of his readers.... With such passages of trenchant wit and sparkling observation, surely in his best manner, Mr. James ought to be as satisfied as his readers cannot fail to be.’
SOME WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN
BY MAARTEN MAARTENS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Maarten Maartens here shows himself a master of the short story, and more of a cosmopolitan than we had suspected.’
=The Academy.=--‘We have enjoyed the book, and we think it contains much excellent work. It has all the wit, the discretion, the worldliness of Mr. Anthony Hope’s social studies. And it has, in addition, a genuine cosmopolitanism rare enough in English fiction.’
=The Outlook.=--‘The women Mr. Maartens has known are various and interesting, and the episodes which he has chosen to depict are cleverly imagined.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘Mr. Maarten Maartens displays all his genius as a humorist, a story-teller, and a painter of talent.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE DANCER IN YELLOW
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Guardian.=--‘A very clever and finished study of a dancer at one of the London theatres. We found the book very pleasant and refreshing, and laid it down with the wish that there were more like it.’
=The World.=--‘_The Dancer in Yellow_ takes us by surprise. The story is both tragic and pathetic.... We do not think he has written any more clever and skilful story than this one, and particular admiration is due to the byways and episodes of the narrative.’
THE WIDOWER
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Mr. Norris’s new story is one of his best. There is always about his novels an atmosphere of able authorship ...and _The Widower_ is handled throughout in the perfect manner to which Mr. Norris’s readers are accustomed.’
=Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘There is distinction of all kinds in every paragraph, and the whole is worthy of the delicately-finished details. Mr. Norris is always delightfully witty, clever, and unfailing in delicacy and point of style and manner, breezily actual, and briskly passing along. In a word, he is charming.’
MARIETTA’S MARRIAGE
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘A fluent style, a keen insight into certain types of human nature, a comprehensive and humorous view of modern society--these are gifts Mr. Norris has already displayed, and again exhibits in his present volume. From the first chapter to the last, the book runs smoothly and briskly, with natural dialogue and many a piquant situation.’
=The Daily News.=--‘Every character in the book is dexterously drawn. Mr. Norris’s book is interesting, often dramatic, and is the work of, if not a deep, a close and humorous observer of men and women.’
A VICTIM OF GOOD LUCK
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It has not a dull page from first to last. Any one with normal health and taste can read a book like this with real pleasure.’
=The Spectator.=--‘The brightest and cleverest book which Mr. Norris has given us since he wrote _The Rogue_.
=The Saturday Review.=--‘Novels which are neither dull, unwholesome, morbid, nor disagreeable, are so rare in these days, that _A Victim of Good Luck_ ... ought to find a place in a book-box filled for the most part with light literature.... We think it will increase the reputation of an already very popular author.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE COUNTESS RADNA
BY W. E. MORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Speaker.=--‘In style, skill in construction, and general “go,” it is worth a dozen ordinary novels.’
=Black and White.=--‘The novel, like all Mr. Norris’s work, is an excessively clever piece of work, and the author never for a moment allows his grasp of his plot and his characters to slacken.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘Mr. Norris writes throughout with much liveliness and force, saying now and then something that is worth remembering. And he sketches his minor characters with a firm touch.’
THE IMAGE BREAKERS
BY GERTRUDE DIX
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Outlook.=--‘We have here a book packed with thought, suggestive, sincere. The story is told supremely well. It has construction, it has atmosphere. The characters live, breathe, love, suffer. Everything is on the high plane of literature. It is a book of absorbing interest.’
A PROPHET OF THE REAL
BY ESTHER MILLER
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Miss Miller’s study is both striking and original. The young authoress knows how to tell her story, and her manner, the way in which she describes the emotions of her characters, is always adequate and often eloquent. She shows us the girl as she was in the days of her servitude, gives us all the illuminating details of her sordid existence; then she shows us the pathetic blossoming of the nipped bud under the influence of kindness, the transformation of the morbid girl into a beautiful and gracious woman. Miss Miller is really to be congratulated on her heroine. The study is interesting and faithful.’
THE GLOWWORM
BY MAY BATEMAN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘It has quite a character of its own; it has charm and it has feeling. The minor characters are all good, and there is a pleasant humour always at hand to relieve a story otherwise tragical enough.’
=Punch.=--‘A clever, well-written story.’
=Truth.=--‘As interesting as it is original.’
=The Morning Post.=--‘It is distinctly a fine piece of fiction, for the author can delineate character with precision and sympathy, and her style is admirably polished.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Miss Bateman has given us a very careful and sympathetic story of the successive phases of a fine nature; the character is consistently developed with a tender compassion for the impracticable and appreciation for the beautiful. The authoress has, moreover, a fund of shrewd common-sense which, combined with keen observation and humour, makes her book both readable and entertaining.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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GILLETTE’S MARRIAGE
BY MAMIE BOWLES
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘This is an extraordinarily clever performance and will be found most absorbing. The characterisation is excellent, the dialogue natural and alive, the emotion poignant and real.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is decidedly clever and human, and the brilliantly bold heroism of Gillette’s final act of self-sacrifice is effective. One must always admit its undeniable power.’
THE FALL OF LORD PADDOCKSLEA
BY LIONEL LANGTON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The World.=--‘A very clever and good-humoured _jeu d’esprit_. The talk is excellent, the atmosphere of worldliness and self-interest tempered by the very best manners and form, the verisimilitude of Lady Killiecrankie, are all much to be commended.’