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=Western Morning News.=—“It is a smartly written and deeply interesting story, well out of the beaten track of novelists.”

=Literary World.=—“The story is well told. . . . Four racy chapters take us thus far, and seven lively ones follow.”

=Public Opinion.=—“From this point the interest in the story is such that there is no putting the book down till the _dénouement_ is reached. The writing is smart, clever, and telling.”

=Critic.=—“A powerful story, unconventional as regards both subject and treatment. [Here the reviewer analyses the plot.] This situation is handled with extraordinary delicacy and skill, and the book is an admirable study of repressed emotions.”

=Monitor.=—“Miss Williams has here seized on an original concept, and given it fitting presentation. The ‘experiment’ is a novel one, and its working out is a deft piece of writing. The psychology of the work is faultless, and this study of a beautiful temperament, in a crude frame, has with it the verity of deep observation and acute insight. . . . We await with considerable confidence Miss Williams’ next venture.”

=Sheffield Independent.=—“The writer has treated a delicate and unusual situation with delicacy and originality. The heroine’s character is drawn with firmness and clearness, and the whole story is vivid and picturesque. . . . The history of the experiment is exceedingly well told. Keen insight into character, and cleverness in its delineation, as well as shrewd observation and intense sympathy, mark the writer’s work, while the style is terse and clear, and the management of trying scenes extremely good.”

_=Darab’s Wine-Cup=_, and other Powerful and Vividly-Written Stories. By BART KENNEDY, Author of “The Wandering Romanoff,” etc. New and cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

=Aberdeen Free Press.=—“Will be welcomed as something fresh in the world of fiction.”

=St James’s Budget.=—“A volume characteristic of the author’s splendid powers.”

=M. A. P.=—“Mr Kennedy writes powerfully, and can grip the reader’s imagination, or whirl it off into the strangest domains of glamour and romance at will. . . . There is a future for this clever young man from Tipperary. He will do great things.”

=Outlook.=—“Mr Bart Kennedy is a young writer of singular imaginative gifts, and a style as individual as Mr Kipling’s.”

=Weekly Dispatch.=—“The author has exceptional gifts, a strong and powerful individuality, a facile pen, rich imagination, and constructive ability of a high order. This volume ought to find a place on every library shelf.”

=Critic.=—“Of a highly imaginative order, and distinctly out of the ordinary run. . . . The author has a remarkable talent for imaginative and dramatic presentation. He sets before himself a higher standard of achievement than most young writers of fiction.”

=Cork Herald.=—“Gracefully written, easy and attractive in diction and style, the stories are as choice a collection as we have happened on for a long time. They are clever; they are varied; they are fascinating. We admit them into the sacred circle of the most beautiful that have been told by the most sympathetic and skilled writers. . . . Mr Kennedy has a style, and that is rare enough nowadays—as refreshing as it is rare.”

“_=Fame, the Fiddler.=_” A Story of Literary and Theatrical Life. By S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD. Crown 8vo, cloth, new and cheaper edition, 2s. 6d.

=Graphic.=—“The volume will please and amuse numberless people.”

=Pall Mall Gazette.=—“A pleasant, cheery story. Displays a rich vein of robust imagination.”

=Sun.=—“Interesting all through, and the inclination is towards finishing it at one sitting.”

=Scotsman.=—“An amusing and entertaining story of Bohemian life in London.”

=Standard.=—“There are many pleasant pages in ‘Fame, the Fiddler,’ which reminds us of ‘Trilby,’ with its pictures of Bohemian life, and its happy-go-lucky group of good-hearted, generous scribblers, artists, and playwrights. Some of the characters are so true to life that it is impossible not to recognise them. Among the best incidents in the volume must be mentioned the production of Pryor’s play, and the account of poor Jimmy Lambert’s death, which is as moving an incident as we have read for a long time. Altogether, ‘Fame, the Fiddler’ is a very human book, and an amusing one as well.”

=Catholic Times.=—“We read the volume through, and at the conclusion marvelled at the wonderful knowledge of life the author displays. For although the whole work is written in a light, humorous vein, underneath this current of humour there is really an astonishing amount of wisdom, and wisdom that is not displayed every day. . . . It is a vivid description of times gay and melancholy, that occur in many lives. Mr Fitz-Gerald has done his work well, so well that we loitered on many pages, and closed the book finally with a feeling that it is a faithful history of the journalist, the author, the theatrical individual, and the man who ekes out a living by playing the _rôle_ of all three.”

=CHEAPER FICTION=

_=Pelican Tails.=_ A Collection of smart, up-to-date Tales of Modern Life, written, edited and selected by FRANK M. BOYD (Editor of “The Pelican.”) One of the most popular and entertaining volumes of short stories that has ever been published. An ideal companion for a railway journey or a spare hour or two. Crown 8vo, picture wrapper designed and drawn by W. S. ROGERS, 1s. (In active preparation.)

_=The Devil in a Domino.=_ A Psychological Mystery. By CHAS. L’EPINE, Author of “The Lady of the Leopard,” “Miracle Plays,” etc. Cover designed by C. H. BEAUVAIS. Long 12mo, cloth, 1s.

=Truth.=—“The story is written with remarkable literary skill, and, notwithstanding its gruesomeness, is undeniably fascinating.”

=Sketch.=—“It is a well-written story. An admirable literary style, natural and concise construction, succeed in compelling the reader’s attention through every line. We hope to welcome the author again, working on a larger scene.”

=Star.=—“May be guaranteed to disturb your night’s rest. It is a gruesome, ghastly, blood-curdling, hair-erecting, sleep-murdering piece of work, with a thrill on every page. Read it.”

=Sunday Chronicle.=—“A very clever study by ‘Charles L’Epine,’ who should by his style be an accomplished author not unknown in other ranks of literature. Beyond comparison it is the strongest shilling shocker we have read for many a day. The author has succeeded in heaping horror upon horror until one’s blood is curdled.”

_=That Fascinating Widow=_, and other Frivolous and Fantastic Tales, for River, Road and Rail. By =S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald=. Long 12mo, cloth, 1s.

=The Scotsman.=—“The widow is a charmingly wicked person. The stories are well written, with a pleasant humour of a farcical sort; they are never dull.”

=Whitehall Review.=—“Written with all the dash and ease which Mr Fitz-Gerald has accustomed us to in his journalistic work. There is a breezy, invigorating style about this little book which will make it a favourite on the bookstalls.”

=Glasgow Herald.=—“Nonsense, genial harmless nonsense, to which the most captious and morose of readers will find it difficult to refuse the tribute of a broad smile, even if he can so far restrain himself as not to burst out into genuine laughter.”

=The Referee.=—“Another little humorous book is ‘That Fascinating Widow,’ by Mr S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, who can be very funny when he tries. The story which gives the title to the book would make a capital farce. ‘The Blue-blooded Coster’ is an amusing piece of buffoonery.”

=The Globe.=—“The author, Mr S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, has already shown himself to be the possessor of a store of humour, on which he has again drawn for the furnishing of the little volume he has just put together. Among the tales included are several which might be suitable for reading or recitation, and none which are dull. Mr Fitz-Gerald frankly addresses to that portion of the public which desires nothing so much as to be amused, and likes even its amusements in small doses. Such a public will entertain itself very pleasantly with Mr Fitz-Gerald’s lively tales, and will probably name as its favourites those titled ‘Pure Cussedness,’ ‘Splidgings’ First Baby,’ and ‘The Blue-blooded Coster.’”

_=Shadows.=_ A Series of Side Lights on Modern Society. By ERNEST MARTIN. (Dedicated to Sir Henry Irving.) Crown 8vo, art cloth, gilt tops, 2s.

=Phoœnix.=—“‘Shadows’ is a very clever work.”

=Western Mercury.=—“Clever sketches, intensely dramatic, original and forceful, based on scenes from actual life, and narrated with much skill.”

=Weekly Times.=—“A series of pictures sketched with considerable power. The last one, ‘Hell in Paradise,’ is terrible in the probable truth of conception.”

=Northern Figaro.=—“Mr Martin’s descriptive paragraphs are coached in trenchant, convincing language, without a superfluous word sandwiched in anywhere. . . . ‘Shadows’ may be read with much profit, and will give more than a superficial insight into various phases of society life and manners.”

_=Death and the Woman.=_ A Powerful Tale. By ARNOLD GOLSWORTHY. Picture cover drawn by =Sydney H. Syme=. Crown 8vo, 1s.

=Scotsman.=—“A cleverly constructed story about a murder and a gang of diamond robbers. . . . The tale never has to go far without a strong situation. It is a capital book for a railway journey.”

=Star.=—“A good shilling’s worth of highly coloured sensationalism. Those readers who want a good melodramatic story smartly told, Mr Golsworthy’s latest effort will suit down to the ground.”

=Literary World.=—“We do not remember having read a book that possessed the quality of _grip_ in a greater degree than is the case with ‘Death and the Woman.’ . . . Every page of every chapter develops the interest, which culminates in one of the most sensational _dénouements_ it has been our lot to read. The flavour of actuality is not destroyed by any incredible incident; it is the inevitable thing that always happens. ‘Death and the Woman’ will supply to the brim the need of those in search of a holding drama of modern London life.”

_=The Fellow-Passengers.=_ A Mystery and its Solution. A Detective Story. By RIVINGTON PYKE, Author of “The Man who Disappeared.” Long 12mo, cloth, 1s.

=Whitehall Review.=—“Those who love a mystery with plenty of ‘go,’ and a story which is not devoid of a certain amount of realism, cannot do better than pick up ‘Fellow-Passengers.’ The characters are real men and women, and not the sentimental and artificial puppets to which we have been so long accustomed by our sensationalists. The book is brightly written, and of detective stories it is the best I have read lately.”

=Weekly Dispatch.=—“If you want a diverting story of realism, bordering upon actuality, you cannot do better than take up this bright, vivacious, dramatic volume. It will interest you from first page to last.”

=Catholic Times.=—“This is a well-written story, with a good plot and plenty of incident. From cover to cover there is not a dull page, and the interest keeps up to the end.”

=Glasgow News.=—“It is a thriller. . . . The sort of book one cannot help finishing at a sitting, not merely because it is short, but because it rivets. . . . The author uses his materials with great ingenuity, his plot is cleverly devised, and he very effectively works up to a striking _dénouement_.”

=Illustrated Books for Children=

_=Nonsense Numbers and Jocular Jingles=_ =For Funny Little Folk=. Written by DRUID GRAYL, with full-page Illustrations by WALTER J. MORGAN. 4to, cloth boards, 5s.

_=The Grand Panjandrum=_, and other fanciful Fairy Tales for the youthful of all Ages, Climes and Times. By =S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald=, Author of “The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch,” “The Wonders of the Secret Cavern,” “The Mighty Toltec,” etc. Many full-page and smaller Illustrations by GUSTAVE DARRÉ. Second Edition. Square 8vo, art cloth, gilt, 3s. 6d.

=Truth.=—“A decided acquisition to the children’s library.”

=Ladles’ Pictorial.=—“Quite one of the brightest of the season’s gift books.”

=Spectator.=—“Well provided with fun and fancy.”

=Morning Post.=—“Bright and thoroughly amusing. It will please all children. The pictures are excellent.”

=Echo.=—“Of the pile (of children’s books) before us, Mr Adair Fitz-Gerald’s ‘Grand Panjandrum’ is the cleverest. Mr Fitz-Gerald needs no introduction to the nursery of these days.”

=Times.=—“Very fanciful.”

=Church News.=—“This is one of the most delightful books of nonsense we have read since we welcomed ‘The Wallypug of Why.’”

=Scotsman.=—“Will make the eyes of readers open wide with wonder and delight.”

=Lloyd’s.=—“Will amuse all children lucky enough to get this neat and pretty volume.”

=Pall Mall Gazette.=—“A charming little book. Simply written, and therefore to be comprehended of the youthful mind. It will be popular, for the writer has a power of pleasing which is rare.”

=Literary World.=—“A handsomely bound, mouth-watering, in every way up-to-date volume, written especially for and on behalf of the toddler or the newly breeched.”

=People.=—“A delightful story for children, something in the style of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ but also having some flavour of Kingsley’s ‘Water Babies.’”

=Sun.=—“Good fairy stories are a source of everlasting joy and delight. Mr Adair Fitz-Gerald breaks fresh ground and writes pleasantly. . . . The book has the added advantage of being charmingly illustrated in colour by Gustave Darré.”

=Nottingham Guardian.=—“It is a merry book, and should keep the nursery in a good humour for hours. It is artistically got up, the illustrations by Mr Gustave Darré being of a high order of merit.”

=Manchester Courier.=—“It should prove a great favourite with young people, being written by one who evidently takes the utmost interest in them and their ways. The full-page illustrations are very pretty.”

=Weekly Sun.=—“Mr Adair Fitz-Gerald is a well-known writer of fairy stories and humorous books for the young. ‘The Grand Panjandrum’ is just the sort of book to please youngsters of all ages, being full of pleasant imaginings, and introducing its readers to a host of curious people.”

=Greening’s Humorous Books=

_=The Pillypingle Pastorals.=_ A Series of Amusing Rustic Tales and Sketches. By DRUID GRAYL. Profusely Illustrated by WALTER J. MORGAN. Crown 8vo, art cloth, 3s. 6d.

_=The Pottle Papers.=_ Written by TRISTRAM COUTTS, Author of “A Comedy of Temptation.” Illustrated by =L. Raven Hill=. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

=THE POTTLE PAPERS=, the fourth edition of which is just ready, is a really funny book written by Saul Smiff, and illustrated by Mr L. Raven Hill. “Anyone who wants a good laugh should get “The Pottle Papers,” says the =Sheffield Daily Telegraph=. “They are very droll reading for an idle afternoon, or picking up at any time when ‘down in the dumps.’ They are very brief and very bright, and it is impossible for anyone with the slightest sense of humour to read the book without bursting into ‘the loud guffaw’ which does not always ‘bespeak the empty mind.’” The =Pall Mall Gazette= says it contains “Plenty of boisterous humour of the Max Adeler kind . . . humour that is genuine and spontaneous. The author, for all his antics, has a good deal more in him than the average buffoon. There is, for example, a very clever and subtle strain of feeling running through the comedy in ‘The Love that Burned’—a rather striking bit of work. Mr Raven Hill’s illustrations are as amusing as they always are.” The =St James’s Budget= accorded this book a very long notice, and reproduced some of the pictures. The reviewer said: “Who says the sense of humour is dead when we have ‘The Pottle Papers’? We can put the book down with the feeling that we have spent a very enjoyable hour and laughed immoderately. ‘The Pottle Papers’ will be in everybody’s hands before long.” H.R.H. the Prince of Wales honoured the author by accepting a copy of his book; and the =Court Circular= remarked: “The Prince of Wales has accepted a copy of Saul Smiff’s delightfully merry book, ‘The Pottle Papers.’ The Prince is sure to enjoy Raven Hill’s clever sketches.” This funniest of funny books is published at 2s. 6d., strongly bound in cloth.

_=Dan Leno, Hys Booke.=_ A volume of Frivolities: Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical, Anecdotal and Nonsensical. Written by DAN LENO. Profusely illustrated by Sidney H. Sime, Frank Chesworth, W. S. Rogers, Gustave Darré, Alfred Bryan and Dan Leno. Fifth Edition, containing a New Chapter, and an Appreciation of Dan Leno, written by Clement Scott. Crown 8vo, art cloth, gilt edges, 2s. Popular Edition, sewed, picture cover, 1s.

=DAN LENO, HYS BOOKE=, is, says the =Liverpool Review=, “the funniest publication since ‘Three Men in a Boat.’ In this autobiographical masterpiece the inimitable King of Comedians tells his life story in a style that would make a shrimp laugh.” This enormously successful book of genuine and spontaneous humour has been received with a complete chorus of complimentary criticisms and pleasing “Press” praise and approval. Here are a few reviewers’ remarks: “Bombshells of fun.”—=Scotsman.= “One long laugh from start to finish.”—=Lloyd’s.= “Full of exuberant and harmless fun.”—=Globe.= “A deliciously humorous volume.”—=English Illustrated Magazine.= “The fun is fast and furious.”—=Catholic Times.= “It is very funny.”—=St Paul’s.= These are a few opinions taken at random from hundreds of notices. Says the =Daily News= (Hull): “The funniest book we have read for some time. You must perforce scream with huge delight at the dry sayings and writings of the funny little man who has actually killed people with his patter and his antics. Page after page of genuine fun is reeled off by the great little man.”

_=Bachelor Ballads=_ and other Lazy Lyrics. By HARRY A. SPURR, Author of “A Cockney in Arcadia.” With Fifty Illustrations by JOHN HASSALL. Crown 8vo, art cloth, 3s. 6d.

_=The Pottle’s Progress.=_ Being the Further Adventures of Mr and Mrs Pottle. By TRISTRAM COUTTS, Author of “The Pottle Papers,” etc. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. (In preparation.)

=Guides, Etc.=

_=London.=_ A Handy Guide for the Visitor, Sportsman and Naturalist. By J. W. CUNDALL. Including an Article on “Literary Restaurants,” by CLEMENT SCOTT. Numerous Illustrations. Second Year of Publication. Long 12mo, cloth, 6d.

=Vanity Fair.=—“A capital little guide book. No bulky volume this, but a handy booklet full of pithy information on all the most important subjects connected with our great city.”

=Outlook.=—“A handy booklet, more tasteful than one is accustomed to.”

=Pelican.=—“As full of useful and entertaining information as is an egg of meat.”

=Bookman.=—“A very lively and readable little guide.”

=To-day.=—“One of the best guide books for visitors to London. It is a model of lucidity and informativeness, and the profuse illustrations are admirably executed.”

=Glasgow Herald.=—“A useful little work for those who have no desire to wade through many pages of information before getting what they want.”

_=America Abroad.=_ A Handy Guide for Americans in England. Edited by J. W. CUNDALL. With numerous Illustrations. Ninth Year of Publication. 6d.

_=In Quaint East Anglia.=_ Descriptive Sketches. By T. WEST CARNIE. Illustrated by W. S. ROGERS. Long 12mo, cloth, 1s. (_See page 5._)

“_=Sisters by the Sea.=_” Seaside and Country Sketches. By CLEMENT SCOTT, Author of “Blossom Land,” “Amongst the Apple Orchards,” Etc. Frontispiece and Vignette designed by GEORGE POWNALL. Long 12mo, attractively bound in cloth, 1s. (_See page 3._)

A BOOK OF GREAT INTEREST.
AT ALL BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIES. SECOND EDITION.
=RUDYARD KIPLING:=
THE MAN AND HIS WORK.

Being an Attempt at Appreciation. By G. F. MONKSHOOD.
With a Portrait of Mr Kipling, and an Autograph Letter to
the Author in facsimile.
_Crown 8vo, crimson buckram, gilt top, 5/- nett._
A FEW OF MANY PRESS OPINIONS

=Daily Telegraph.=—(Mr W. L. COURTNEY in “Books of the Day.”)—“He writes fluently, and has genuine enthusiasm for his subject, and an intimate acquaintance with his work. Moreover, his book has been submitted to Mr Kipling, whose characteristic letter to the author is set forth in the Preface. . . . Of Mr Kipling’s heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting.” (Here follows a long extract.)

=Scotsman.=—“This well-informed volume . . . is plainly sincere. It is thoroughly well studied, and takes pains to answer all the questions that are usually put about Mr Kipling. The writer’s enthusiasm carries both himself and his reader along in the most agreeable style. . . . One way and another, his book is full of interest; those who wish to talk about Mr Kipling will find it invaluable, while the thousands of his admirers will read it through with delighted sympathy.”

=Western Daily Press.=—“A very praiseworthy attempt, and by a writer imbued with a fervent esteem for his subject. . . . This valuation of the work of our most virile Empire author should hold the attention of those who have well studied the subject and can appreciate accordingly.”

=Sun.=—“The author has carefully compiled a lot of most interesting matter, which he has edited with care and conscientiousness, and the result is a volume which every lover of Kipling can read with pleasure.”

=Spectator.=—“It is very readable. It tells us some things which we might not otherwise have known, and puts together in a convenient form many things which are of common knowledge.”

=Outlook.=—“Something more than an attempt at appreciation. . . . Mr Monkshood has written what all the young men at home and abroad who treasure Mr Kipling’s writings think, but have not expressed. The volume is a striking testimony to the hold which work that is clean and sane and virile has upon the rising generation. And for this we cannot be sufficiently thankful.”

=Globe.=—“It has at the basis both knowledge and enthusiasm—knowledge of the works estimated and enthusiasm for them. . . . This book may be accepted as a generous exposition of Mr Kipling’s merits as a writer. We can well believe that it will have many interested and approving readers.”

=Irish Times.=—“A well-thought-out and earnest appreciation of the great writer and his works.”

=Academy.=—“The book should give its subject pleasure, for Mr Monkshood is very keen and cordial. His criticisms have some shrewdness too. Here is a passage . . .” (Long quotation follows.)

=Sunday Times.=—“Sure to attract much attention. In it we are given a sketch of Mr Kipling’s career and the story of his various works, along with some sane and balanced criticism. . . . The book is written brightly, thoughtfully, and informingly.”

=Bookseller.=—“It is acute in perception, and sympathetic to the verge of worship, with just as much criticism as will allow that the hero has his limitations. . . . Mr Monkshood’s well-informed and well-written critique possesses undoubted ability and attraction.”

=Yorkshire Herald.=—“This work, which is highly appreciative, will be received with enthusiasm. . . . From this point the biography becomes even more interesting. . . . The author deals at length with Kipling’s works, and with sufficient forcefulness and originality to hold the reader’s attention throughout. The biography has undoubted merit and will be largely read.”

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