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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_WORLD._--"Curious and engrossing.... The wife of the man chiefly concerned is a finely presented character, and at the close the author achieves the beautiful and the true."

_ACADEMY._--"A virile and varied novel of free life on the Pacific Coast of America."

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_DAILY MAIL._--"Full of spirit as well as of all-round literary excellence.... The scenes are vivid, the passions are strong, the persons who move in the pages have life and warmth, and the interest they arouse is often acutely eager. The book grips."

_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"A particularly clever and readable story."

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THE PRIDE OF JENNICO

_BEING A MEMOIR OF_

CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO

By EGERTON CASTLE

_ACADEMY._--"A capital romance."

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_LIVERPOOL DAILY MERCURY._--"The book is written in a strong and terse style of diction with a swift and vivid descriptive touch. In its grasp of character and the dramatic nature of its plot it is one of the best novels of its kind since Stevenson's _Prince Otto_."

_COSMOPOLIS._--"A capital story, well constructed and well written. The style deserves praise for a distinction only too rare in the present day."

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STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY

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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_INDEPENDENT (NEW YORK)._--"This book of buccaneers will stir the blood of young people who care for stories that tell of wild fighting on pirate ships and lawless riots ashore in the time when the ocean was not at command of steam's civilizing power.... Mr. Stockton has given the charm of his genius to the book."

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By CECIL LOWIS

_BRITISH WEEKLY._--"The scene is laid in India, and to our mind it is quite as good as Mrs. Steel."

_WHITEHALL REVIEW._--"A clever tale."

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BISMILLAH

By A. J. DAWSON

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_ACADEMY._--"Romantic and dramatic, and full of colour."

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_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"An interesting and pleasing tale."

_SCOTSMAN._--"Mr. Dawson sustains the interest of his readers to the end. The characters are well defined, the situations are frequently dramatic, the descriptive passages are clear and animated, and a rich vein of genuine human nature runs through the narrative."

_DUNDEE ADVERTISER._--"Mr. Dawson has caught the spirit of the country, and his romance has the Moorish glamour about it delicious as a memory of Tangiers in sunset."

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HER MEMORY

By MAARTEN MAARTENS

AUTHOR OF "MY LADY NOBODY," ETC.

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_ATHENÆUM._--"Maarten Maartens has never written a brighter social story, and it has higher qualities than brightness."

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--" It is a most delicate bit of workmanship, and the sentiment of it is as exquisite as it is true. All the characters are drawn with rare skill: there is not one that is not an admirable portrait.'

_LITERATURE._--"A powerful and sometimes painful study, softened by many touches of pathos and flashes of humour--occasionally of sheer fun. On the whole, it will stand comparison with any of its predecessors for dramatic effect and strength of style."

_TRUTH._--"Mr. Maarten Maartens' latest and, perhaps, finest novel."

_SCOTSMAN._--"The book is one of singular power and interest, original and unique."

_LEEDS MERCURY._--"_Her Memory_ is a book which only a man of genius could write, and as a study of character it is fascinating.... The prevailing impression left by _Her Memory_ is that of beauty and strength. Unlike the majority of contemporary novels, the story before us is one which arrests thought, as well as touches some of the deepest problems of life."

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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 throws much instructive light upon certain subordinate phases of the great popular upheaval that convulsed France between 1788 and 1794.... Recounted with unflagging vivacity and inexhaustible good humour."

_DAILY MAIL._--"This lively piece of imagination is animated throughout by strong human interest and novel incident."

_LITERATURE._--"It is a charming book, this historical romance of Dr. Weir Mitchell's; in narrative power, in dramatic effect, in vivid movement, and in mordant and singularly effective style.... No novelist of whom we know, not even Felix Gras, has so vividly brought before us the life of lower Paris in the awful days of the Terror. A dozen or so admirable reproductions of the drawings specially made by A. Castaigne for 'François,' during its serial appearance, add attraction to a romance as notable as it is delightful."

_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"The author meets with a master's ease every call that is made upon his resources, and the calls are neither few nor light. The design, bold though it is, lies so well within his compass as to suggest a reserve of strength rather than limitations. And a style that is versatile but always distinguished, delicate but always virile, terse but never obscure, is in a strong hand an instrument for strong work. The pictures by A. Castaigne are worthy of the text."

_GLASGOW HERALD._--"Dr. Weir Mitchell's story deserves nothing but praise."

_SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"There is plenty of movement, and the interest culminates but never flags. It is quite the best picaresque novel we have come across for a long time past.... The story could hardly be bettered."

_GLASGOW DAILY MAIL._--"It is altogether a most entertaining narrative, witty and humorous in its dialogue, exciting in its incidents, and not without its pathetic side."

_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"Dr. Weir Mitchell is certainly to be congratulated on the whole volume."

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ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN

_LITERATURE._--"A charming book.... If the delightful wilderness which eventually develops into a garden occupies the foreground, there is still room for much else--for children, husbands, guests, gardeners, and governesses, all of which are treated in a very entertaining manner."

_TIMES._--"A very bright little book--genial, humorous, perhaps a little fantastic and wayward here and there, but full of bright glimpses of nature and sprightly criticisms of life. Elizabeth is the English wife of a German husband, who finds and makes for herself a delightful retreat from the banalities of life in a German provincial town by occupying and beautifying a deserted convent."

_SCOTSMAN._--"The garden in question is somewhere in Germany.... Its owner found it a wilderness, has made it a paradise, and tells the reader how. The book is charmingly written.... The people that appear in it are almost as interesting as the flowers.... Altogether it is a delightful book, of a quiet but strong interest, which no one who loves plants and flowers ought to miss reading."

_ACADEMY._--"'I love my garden'--that is the first sentence, and reading on, we find ourselves in the presence of a whimsical, humorous, cultured, and very womanly woman, with a pleasant, old-fashioned liking for homeliness and simplicity; with a wise husband, three merry babes, aged five, four, and three, a few friends, a gardener, an old German house to repose in, a garden to be happy in, an agreeable literary gift, and a slight touch of cynicism. Such is Elizabeth. The book is a quiet record of her life in her old world retreat, her adventures among bulbs and seeds, the sayings of her babies, and the discomfiture and rout of a New Woman visitor.... It is a charming book, and we should like to dally with it."

_GLASGOW HERALD._--"This book has to do with more than a German garden, for the imaginary diary which it contains is really a description, and a very charming and picturesque one, of life in a north German country house."

_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"No mere extracts could do justice to this entirely delightful garden book."

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_SPEAKER._--"Entirely delightful."

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THE LOVES

OF THE

LADY ARABELLA

By M. E. SEAWELL

_SPEAKER._--"A story told with so much spirit that the reader tingles with suspense until the end is reached.... A very pleasant tale of more than common merit."

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"It is short and excellent reading.... Old Peter Hawkshaw, the Admiral, is a valuable creation, sometimes quite 'My Uncle Toby'.... The scene, when the narrator dines with him in the cabin for the first time, is one of the most humorous in the language, and stamps Lady Hawkshaw--albeit, she is not there--as one of the wives of fiction in the category of Mrs. Proudie herself.... The interest is thoroughly sustained to the end.... Thoroughly healthy and amusing."

_WORLD._--"Brisk and amusing throughout."

_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"A spirited romance.... It is the brightest tale of the kind that we have read for a long time."

_DAILY MAIL._--"A robust and engaging eighteenth century romance."

_SCOTSMAN._--"The story possesses all the elements of a good-going love romance, in which the wooing is not confined to the sterner sex; while its flavour of the sea will secure it favour in novel-reading quarters where anything approaching sentimentality or sermonizing does not meet with much appreciation."

_MORNING POST._--"There is a spirit and evident enjoyment in the telling of the story which is refreshing."

_ACADEMY._--"A brisk story of old naval days."

_SPECTATOR._--"Pleasant reading is furnished in _The Loves of the Lady Arabella_."

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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, happy-go-lucky style which characterizes the more recent fictional works of the author of that singularly earnest and impressive romance, _Robbery under Arms_."

_DAILY MAIL._--"As pleasant as ever."

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

_SCOTSMAN._--"A volume of five short stories by Mr. Rolf Boldrewood is heartily welcome.... All are about Australia, and all are excellent.... His shorter stories will enhance his popularity."

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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 across a pleasant, little green oasis in the arid desert of minor novels.... In these the author's refinement, tenderness, and charm of manner are as well exemplified as in any of her earlier works.... The book is one that we can most cordially recommend."

_DAILY NEWS._--"Each story that comes to us from the hand of Mrs. Oliphant moves us to admiration for its delicate craftsmanship, the keen appreciation it displays of the resources of situation and character. The posthumous volume, 'That Little Cutty, and other Stories,' is an excellent example of Mrs. Oliphant's power of telling a story swiftly and with dramatic insight. Every touch tells.... The little volume is worthy of its author's high and well-deserved reputation."

_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"All three are admirably written in that easy, simple narrative style to which the author had so thoroughly accustomed us. It will be for many of Mrs. Oliphant's friends a wholly unexpected pleasure to have a new volume of fiction with her name on the title-page."

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"They are models of what such stories should be."

_SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"Excellent examples of Mrs. Oliphant's work."

_SCOTSMAN._--"All three stories have a fine literary flavour and an artistic finish, and within their limited scope present some subtle analyses of character."

_NORTHERN WHIG._--"Anything from the pen of the late Mrs. Oliphant will always be welcome to a large number of readers, who will therefore note with pleasant interest the publication by Messrs. Macmillan of a neat volume containing three tales, 'That Little Cutty,' 'Dr. Barrère,' and 'Isabel Dysart.' Of the three, although all are most readable, the most skilfully constructed is the second named, the plot and climax of which are decidedly dramatic. The last story deals with the still unforgotten period of the horrible Burke and Hare revelations in Edinburgh."

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THE FOREST LOVERS

A ROMANCE

By MAURICE HEWLETT

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_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 with him with unfailing resource and artistic skill, while he unrolls for us the course of thrilling adventures, ending, after many tribulations, in that ideal happiness towards which every romancer ought to wend his tortuous way.... There are few books of this season which achieve their aim so simply and whole-heartedly as Mr. Hewlett's ingenious and enthralling romance."

_WORLD._--"If there are any romance-lovers left in this matter-of-fact end of the century, _The Forest Lovers_, by Mr. Maurice Hewlett, should receive a cordial welcome. It is one of those charming books which, instead of analyzing the morbid emotions of which we are all too weary, opens a door out of this workaday world and lets us escape into fresh air. A very fresh and breezy air it is which blows in Mr. Hewlett's forest, and vigorous are the deeds enacted there.... There is throughout the book that deeper and less easily defined charm which lifts true romance above mere story-telling--a genuine touch of poetic feeling which beautifies the whole."

_DAILY MAIL._--"It is all very quaintly and pleasingly done, with plenty of mad work, and blood-spilling, and surprising adventure."

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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 furnished with clever phrases."

_ATHENÆUM._--"Remarkably clever.... The writing throughout is clear, and the story is well constructed."

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

_GUARDIAN._--"The novel is well written, and full of complex interests and personalities. It touches on many questions and problems clearly and skilfully."

_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"A book which entirely interested us for the whole of a blazing afternoon. He writes uncommonly well."

_BOOKMAN._--"The excellence of Mr. Herrick's book lies not in the solution of any problem, nor in the promulgation of any theory, nor indeed in any form of docketing and setting apart of would-be final 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 originality and life. The self-engrossed Adela is so cleverly drawn that we are hardly ever out of sympathy with her aspirations, and Molly Parker, the 'womanly' foil, is delightful."

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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 accidents, though there is no lack of exciting incidents of this kind in his story.... What charmed us chiefly in the story was the close 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 merits of his narrative.... We venture to think that no one will be 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."

_ATHENÆUM._--"The story is vividly told, and decidedly well kept up with tales of hairbreadth escapes and collisions commendable for vigour and naturalness.... A book which holds the interest."

_WORLD._--"Better worth reading than half the romances published, for it contains matter that is as interesting as it is absolutely novel."

_ACADEMY._--"A monstrous entertaining little book. Open it anywhere and your luck will hardly fail you. And for real gripping adventure you begin to doubt whether any career is worthy to show itself in the same caboose with that of an 'engineer.'... His life is as full of adventure as a pirate's.... A valuable contribution to the literature that is growing around the Romance of Steam."

_WESTMINSTER GAZETTE_.--"Singularly fascinating. It is just crammed with moving episodes and hair-raising adventures, all set down with a vivid and unadorned vigour that is a perfect example of the art of narration. The pulses quicken, the heart bounds, as we read."

_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 of those rare stories which make a direct appeal alike to the taste and feeling of most men and women, and which afford a gratification that is far greater than that of mere critical approval. It is, in plain English, a beautiful book--beautiful in language and in 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.