Chapter I: Front Matter

THE PICCADILLY NOVELS.

_POPULAR STORIES BY THE BEST AUTHORS._

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By MRS. ALEXANDER.

Maid, Wife, or Widow?

By WALTER BESANT & JAMES RICE.

Ready-Money Mortiboy.
My Little Girl.
Case of Mr. Lucraft.
This Son of Vulcan.
With Harp & Crown.
The Golden Butterfly.
By Celia's Arbour.
Monks of Thelema.
'Twas In Trafalgar's Bay.
The Seamy Side.
Ten Tears' Tenant.
Chaplain of the Fleet.

By WALTER BESANT.

All Sorts and Conditions of Men.
The Captains' Room.
All In a Garden Fair.

By ROBERT BUCHANAN.

A Child of Nature.
God and the Man.
Shadow of the Sword.
Love Me for Ever.
Martyrdom of Madeline.
Annan Water.
The New Abelard.

By MRS. LOVETT CAMERON.

Deceivers Ever.
Juliet's Guardian.

By MORTIMER COLLINS.

Sweet Anne Page.
Transmigration.
From Midnight to Midnight.

By MORTIMER & FRANCES COLLINS.

Blacksmith and Scholar.
The Village Comedy.
You Play Me False.

By WILKIE COLLINS.

Antonina.
Basil.
Hide and Seek.
The Dead Secret.
The Queen of Hearts.
My Miscellanies.
The Woman in White.
The Moonstone.
Man and Wife.
Poor Miss Finch.
Miss or Mrs.?
The New Magdalen.
The Frozen Deep.
The Law and the Lady.
The Two Destinies.
The Haunted Hotel.
The Fallen Leaves.
Jezebel's Daughter.
The Black Robe.
Heart and Science.

By DUTTON COOK.

Paul Foster's Daughter.

By WILLIAM CYPLES.

Hearts of Gold.

By ALPHONSE DAUDET.

Port Salvation.

By JAMES DE MILLE.

A Castle in Spain.

By J. LEITH DERWENT.

Our Lady of Tears.
Circe's Lovers.

By M. BETHAM-EDWARDS.

Felicia.
Kitty.

By MRS. ANNIE EDWARDES.

Archie Lovell.

By R. E. FRANCILLON.

Olympia.
Queen Cophetua.
A Real Queen.
One by One.

Prefaced by SIR BARTLE FRERE.

Pandurang Hari.

By EDWARD GARRETT.

The Capel Girls.

By CHARLES GIBBON.

Robin Gray.
For Lack of Gold.
In Love and War.
What will World say?
For the King.
In Honour Bound.
Queen of the Meadow.
In Pastures Green.
Flower of the Forest.
A Heart's Problem.
The Braes of Yarrow.
The Golden Shaft.
Of High Degree.
Fancy Free.
Loving a Dream.

By THOMAS HARDY.

Under the Greenwood Tree.

By JULIAN HAWTHORNE.

Garth.
Ellice Quentin.
Sebastian Strome.
Prince Saroni's Wife.
Dust.
Beatrix Randolph.
Fortune's Fool.

By SIR ARTHUR HELPS.

Ivan de Biron.

By MRS. ALFRED HUNT.

Thornicroft's Model.
The Leaden Casket.
Self-Condemned.

By JEAN INGELOW.

Fated to be Free.

By HENRY JAMES, Jun.

Confidence.

By HARRIETT JAY.

Queen of Connaught.
The Dark Colleen.

By HENRY KINGSLEY.

Number Seventeen.
Oakshott Castle.

By E. LYNN LINTON.

Patricia Kemball.
The Atonement of Leam Dundas.
The World Well Lost.
Under Which Lord?
With a Silken Thread.
Rebel of the Family.
'My Love!'
Ione.

By HENRY W. LUCY.

Gideon Fleyce.

By JUSTIN McCARTHY.

Waterdale Neighbours.
My Enemy's Daughter.
Linley Rochford.
A Fair Saxon.
Dear Lady Disdain.
Miss Misanthrope.
Donna Quixote.
Comet of a Season.
Maid of Athens.

By GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D.

Paul Faber, Surgeon.
Thomas Wingfold.

By MRS. MACDONELL.

Quaker Cousins.

By KATHARINE S. MACQUOID.

Lost Rose.
The Evil Eye.

By FLORENCE MARRYAT.

Open! Sesame!
Written in Fire.

By JEAN MIDDLEMASS.

Touch and Go.

By D. CHRISTIE MURRAY.

A Life's Atonement.
Joseph's Coat.
Val Strange.
Coals of Fire.
A Model Father.
Hearts.
By the Gate of the Sea.
The Way of the World.

By MRS. OLIPHANT.

Whiteladies.

By MARGARET A. PAUL.

Gentle and Simple.

By JAMES PAYN.

Lost Sir Massingberd.
The Best of Husbands.
Fallen Fortunes.
Halves.
Walter's Word.
What He Cost Her.
Less Black than we're Painted.
By Proxy.
High Spirits.
Under One Roof.
Carlyon's Year.
A Confidential Agent.
From Exile.
A Grape from a Thorn.
For Cash Only.
Kit: a Memory.
The Canon's Ward.

By E. C. PRICE.

Valentina.
The Foreigners.

By MRS. J. H. RIDDELL.

Her Mother's Darling.
The Prince of Wales's Garden Party.

By CHARLES READE.

It is Never Too Late to Mend.
Hard Cash.
Peg Woffington.
Christie Johnstone.
Griffith Gaunt.
The Double Marriage
Love Me Little, Love Me Long.
Foul Play.
Cloister and Hearth.
The Course of True Love.
The Autobiography of a Thief.
Put Yourself in His Place.
Terrible Temptation.
The Wandering Heir.
A Simpleton.
A Woman-Hater.
Readiana.
Singleheart and Doubleface.
The Jilt.
Good Stories of Men and other Animals.

By F. W. ROBINSON.

Women are Strange.
The Hands of Justice.

By JOHN SAUNDERS.

Bound to the Wheel.
One Against the World.
Guy Waterman.
The Lion in the Path.
The Two Dreamers.

By KATHARINE SAUNDERS.

Joan Merryweather.
Margaret and Elizabeth.
Gideon's Rock.
The High Mills.

By T. W. SPEIGHT.

The Mysteries of Heron Dyke.

By R. A. STERNDALE.

The Afghan Knife.

By BERTHA THOMAS.

Proud Maisie.
The Violin-player.
Cressida.

By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

The Way We Live Now.
American Senator.
Kept in the Dark.
Frau Frohmann.
Marion Fay.
Mr. Scarborough's Family.
The Land-Leaguers.

By FRANCES E. TROLLOPE.

Mabel's Progress.
Anne Furness.
Like Ships upon the Sea.

By T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.

Diamond Cut Diamond.

By IVAN TURGENIEFF, and Others.

Stories from Foreign Novelists.

By C. C. FRASER-TYTLER.

Mistress Judith.

By SARAH TYTLER.

What She Came Through.
The Bride's Pass.

By J. S. WINTER.

Cavalry Life.
Regimental Legends.

_CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY, W._

STRANGE STORIES

STRANGE STORIES

BY GRANT ALLEN (_J. Arbuthnot Wilson_)

_WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY GEORGE DU MAURIER_

London CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1884