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ATHEN�UM.—"The author writes in a clear, attractive style, and succeeds in maintaining the reader's interest from the first page to the last."
WORLD.—"One of the best stories that we have recently read. The touches of Burmese ways and character are excellent. The local colour is sufficient, and the little group which plays the skilful comedy has rare variety and lifelikeness."
DAILY NEWS.—"We are grateful to it no less for its large and clear type, than for its merits as a novel."
ACADEMY.—"The life of the station is admirably drawn by Mr. Lowis, and the love-story holds, without exciting, the reader. A most readable novel."
LITERARY WORLD.—"Charming.... The reader may be assured of entertainment who trusts himself to Mr. Lowis's care."
SCOTSMAN.—"So much has been made of Anglo-Indian society in recent fiction that it must be doubly difficult for a novelist to excel in this field. But in this pleasant and refreshing story Mr. Lowis fairly does so, and his book deserves to be widely read."
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OFF THE HIGH ROAD
By ELEANOR C. PRICE.
AUTHOR OF "YOUNG DENYS," "IN THE LION'S MOUTH," ETC.
ATHEN�UM.—"A pleasant tale."
SPEAKER.—"A charming bit of social comedy, tinged with just a suspicion of melodrama.... The atmosphere of the story is so bright and genial that we part from it with regret."
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"At once ingenious, symmetrical, and entertaining.... Miss Price's fascinating romance."
LITERATURE.—"A simple, but very pleasant story."
SPECTATOR.—"The notion of an orphan heiress, the daughter of an Earl, and the cynosure of two London seasons, flying precipitately from her guardians, who are endeavouring to force her into a match with a man she detests, and hiding herself under an assumed name in a remote rural district of the Midlands, is an excellent motive in itself, and gains greatly from the charm and delicacy of Miss Price's handling."
ACADEMY.—"A quiet country book in the main, with more emotion than action, and continuous interest."
DAILY MAIL.—"One of the sweetest and most satisfying love stories that we have read for many weeks past. To read Off the High Road is as mentally bracing as an actual holiday among the rural delights of the farm, the orchard, and the spinney, in which the scenes of the novel are so refreshingly set."
GUARDIAN.—"Is the story of a summer in the life of a high-spirited and very charming heiress.... The book has a fresh open-air atmosphere that is decidedly restful."
BLACK AND WHITE.—"An admirable specimen of the genus 'light story.' Miss Eleanor C. Price tells her story with a gay good humour which is infectious. We are not asked to think, only to allow ourselves to be interested and amused.... We feel grateful to Miss Price for her bright well-written book. The girl of the mysterious advertisement is a charming character."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"A decidedly attractive little book, with a pleasing atmosphere of green fields, orchards, and wild-rose hedges."
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Forty-third Thousand
THE DAY'S WORK
By RUDYARD KIPLING
CONTENTS
The Bridgebuilders—A Walking Delegate—The Ship that Found Herself—The Tomb of his Ancestors—-The Devil and the Deep Sea—William the Conqueror—007—The Maltese Cat—Bread upon the Waters—An Error of the Fourth Dimension—My Sunday at Home—The Brushwood Boy
ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"This new batch of Mr. Kipling's short stories is splendid work. Among the thirteen there are included at least five of his very finest.... Speaking for ourselves, we have read The Day's Work with more pleasure than we have derived from anything of Mr. Kipling's since the Jungle Book.... It is in the Findlaysons, and the Scotts, and the Cottars, and the 'Williams,' that Mr. Kipling's true greatness lies. These are creations that make one feel pleased and proud that we are also English. What greater honour could there be to an English writer?"
TIMES.—"The book, take it altogether, will add to Mr. Kipling's high reputation both on land and by sea."
DAILY NEWS.—"They have all his strength."
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"If The Day's Work will not add to the author's reputation in this kind of work, which, indeed, might be difficult, it at all events will not detract from it. There is no lack of spirit and power; the same easy mastery of technical details; the same broad sympathy with the English-speaking race, wherever their life-tasks may lie. The style is throughout Kipling's own—terse, nervous, often rugged, always direct and workmanlike, the true reflection of Mr. Kipling's own genius."
MORNING POST.—"The book is so varied, so full of colour and life from end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it down till they have read the last."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"There are the same masterful grip and wielding of words that are almost surprised to find themselves meaning so much; the same buoyant joy in men who 'do' things."
ACADEMY.—"With sure instinct he labels the volume The Day's Work. That is just what these tales are—the day's work of a great imaginative and observant writer, of a master craftsman who, when he has no magnum opus on hand, rummages in drawers, peers into cupboards, for notions noted and not forgotten, for beginnings laid aside to be finished in their proper season."
SCOTSMAN.—"A fine book, one that even a dull man will rejoice to read."
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A DRAMA IN SUNSHINE
By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL
CONTENTS
LITERATURE.—"It has the joy of life in it, sparkle, humour, charm.... All the characters, in their contrasts and developments, are drawn with fine delicacy; and the book is one of those few which one reads again with increased pleasure."
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"A story of extraordinary interest.... Mr. Vachell's enthralling story, the d�nouement of which worthily crowns a literary achievement of no little merit."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"The tale is well told. Besides more than one scene of vividly dramatic force, there is some really excellent drawing of American character."
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."
ATHEN�UM.—"It is a story which the English reader will greet with pleasure.... The book is good reading to the end."
SPECTATOR.—"Full of colour, incident, and human interest, while its terse yet vivid style greatly enhances the impressiveness of the whole."
SCOTSMAN.—"Showing the grasp of a powerful hand on every page.... It is impossible in a brief sketch to give a grasp of all the threads in this complicated story, but they are unravelled with so much skill that the reader feels that everything happens because it must. The characterization, generally speaking, is masterly, and the dialogue is clever. The story increases in power and pathos from chapter to chapter."
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."
COUNTRY LIFE.—"This story of the later years of the eighteenth century will rank high in literature. It is a fine and spirited romance set in a slight but elegant and accurate frame of history. The book itself has a peculiar and individual charm by virtue of the stately language in which it is written.... It is stately, polished, and full of imaginative force."
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
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"A fine book.... They are exciting reading.... Eminently informing."
ACADEMY.—"Mr. Frank R. Stockton is always interesting, whether he writes for young or old."
SCOTSMAN.—"In these stirring romances of the sea he does not profess to give anything fresh; he merely puts into bright, crisp, modern language, the tales that were told in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the recognized chroniclers of the deeds of the freebooters who disported themselves on the American coasts in those picturesque times.... The book is very finely illustrated."
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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THE
TREASURY OFFICER'S WOOING
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."
SPECTATOR.—"It is plain that the writer may yet be a formidable rival to Mrs. Steel."
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BISMILLAH
By A. J. DAWSON
AUTHOR OF "MERE SENTIMENT," "GOD'S FOUNDLING," ETC.
A romantic story of Moorish life in the Rift Country and in Tangier by Mr. A. J. Dawson, whose last novel, God's Foundling, was well received in the beginning of the year, and whose West African and Australian Bush stories will be familiar to most readers of fiction. Bismillah is the title chosen for Mr. Dawson's new book, which may be regarded as the outcome of his somewhat adventurous experiences in Morocco last year.
ACADEMY.—"Romantic and dramatic, and full of colour."
GUARDIAN.—"Decidedly clever and original.... Its excellent local colouring, and its story, as a whole interesting and often dramatic, make it a book more worth reading and enjoyable than is at all common."
SPEAKER.—"A stirring tale of love and adventure.... There is enough of exciting incident, of fighting, intrigue, and love-making in Bismillah to satisfy the most exacting reader."
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.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Full of the quiet grace and literary excellence which we have now learnt to associate with the author."
DAILY NEWS.—"An interesting and characteristic example of this writer's manner. It possesses his sobriety of tone and treatment, his limpidity and minuteness of touch, his keenness of observation.... The book abounds in clever character sketches.... It is very good."
ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—There is something peculiarly fascinating in Mr. Maarten Maartens's new story. It is one of those exquisitely told tales, not unhappy, nor tragic, yet not exactly 'happy,' but full of the pain—as a philosopher has put it—that one prefers, which are read, when the reader is in the right mood, with, at least, a subdued sense of tears, tears of pleasure."
ATHEN�UM.—"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,
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