Chapter IX

THE next evening there was given, at the Imperial Palace, a ball and supper, to which none but _la haute noblesse_ were invited. The dancing began with a brilliant Polonaise, which, headed by the Empress-Queen and her husband, passed through the rooms in stately procession, in singular and picturesque contrast and harmony with another faded and more solemn procession and array of figures in antique armour and dainty ruffs and doublets, and gold chains and princely mantles, the ancestral portraits who watched the formal slow dance-movement from the walls.

After the Polonaise came the supper, which was somewhat prolonged. The supper over, a minuet was danced, and afterward, the company being now happy and cheerful, and being, moreover, of sufficiently high and similar rank to dispense with somewhat of the rigid court etiquette, began to wander through the rooms in an informal manner, and to arrange _contre-danses_ among themselves.

In those days the _contre-danse_ had not hardened itself into the quadrille. It was danced, not in fours, but in sets of varying numbers, and of characters and figures mostly undefined.

In one of the great halls, recently erected by the Emperor-architect, Charles VI., in a different taste from the older rooms, with marble floors and ceiling, and lined with mirrors, a very large set, composed of guests of the highest rank, was being watched by no inconsiderable number of their companions.

It is difficult to conceive a more magnificent or fascinating sight, reflected and multiplied as it was by the mirrors on the walls.

The Princess von Isenberg-Wertheim was dancing with a young noble, a prince of the House of Colleredo, a very handsome, but gay and reckless, young man. The dance was drawing to a close, the musicians, playing one of the last figures, _La Pastorelle_, to a very delicate and fine movement, to which the dancers were devoting their utmost, closest attention and skill.

As the Princess was standing by her partner, awaiting their turn to go down the dance, a slight movement caused her to turn her head, and she found the Count, her friend, standing close to her.

"I am sorry to interrupt, Princess," he said, in a low voice, "but I fear something serious has happened to the Prince. He cannot be found."

The Princess turned very pale. She caught her breath for a moment, then she said, in the same tone, "Where is Karl, the _Jager_?"

"I do not know," replied the Count. "I never thought of him."

"Then he is not here," said the Princess, with a relieved air. "If Karl is with him the Prince is safe."

The Count made a very slight movement of his shoulders, but the Princess turned serenely to the young man.

"We will finish the figure, Monseigneur," she said graciously; "then, perhaps, you will excuse me."

"Nothing has happened to the Prince, believe me," said the young man kindly, as they moved down the room. "He has doubtless gone on some private expedition with his servant. He probably forgot to leave a message, and will return to-morrow."

The Princess was so reassured, apparently, by these reflections that she remained for the final figure of the dance. Then she left the palace, and, declining the Count's company, drove to her _Hotel_ alone.

She was more strangely moved than she could have explained to herself. She was, indeed, frightened and perplexed by her own feelings. She felt herself influenced by an hitherto unrecognised power, and, as it were, driven onwards by an overpowering impulse, not her own.

Returning, as she did, at an unexpected hour, her women were not in waiting for her, and, leaving the servants who had accompanied her from the palace in the hall of the _Hotel_, she wandered up the great staircase alone. The corridors and rooms were dimly lighted, and a perfect stillness reigned through the house.

The Princess ascended slowly towards her own apartment, where she expected to find some, at least, of her dressers, and in so doing, in a dimly-lighted corridor, she passed the rooms allotted to her children. The thought of them was not, indeed, in her mind when, as she passed a door, she fancied that she heard a suppressed, continued crying, as of children in distress. Still more moved and troubled by this faint pathetic sound she opened the door and went in. The room was an antechamber, and both it and the apartment beyond were dark. The Princess procured a small lamp from the corridor and entered the suite of rooms.

In the bedchamber beyond the antechamber she found the children, both sitting up in one bed, clasped in each other's arms, and crying quietly. The little boy had evidently come for shelter and comfort to his sister's bed.

"What is the matter, children?" said the Princess, in a tone which seemed to the little ones strangely soft and kind. "Why are you not asleep?"

The children had ceased crying, and were looking at her wonderingly as she stood in her jewels and ball-dress, a brilliant scarf of Indian work hanging from her arm, the lamp in her hand. They hardly knew whether it was their mother, whom they saw so seldom, or some serene ethereal visitant, who resembled her in face and form.

The little Princess, however, with the self-possession of her class, apparently left this point undecided, and began in her quiet, stately little way to explain.

"It was dark," she said, "and we were asleep, Fritz and I, and we both dreamed the same dream. We thought that we were walking in a beautiful garden, where there were trees, and flowers, and butterflies, and wide cascades of water, in which rainbows were shining; and while we were playing there, and were very happy chasing the butterflies, the Herr Tutor, who was an angel, and who went to heaven, came and took us by the hand; and, when we saw his face, we knew that he is an angel now; and he led us through the garden, and talked to us of many things--of God, and of angels, and of heaven--just as he used to do. But I saw that, though he talked so pleasantly, he was leading us out of this pleasant garden, and the flowers grew dim, and the butterflies flew away, and the sky became very dark. And he led us quite out of the garden into a burial-ground, where there were tombs, and open graves, and crosses, and tall dark trees that bore no flower; and the Herr Tutor told us not to be afraid, and led us on through the graves without speaking any more. He led us into the midst of the burial-ground, and in the midst of the burial-ground there was a Calvary, and at the foot of the Calvary there was a bier. And on the bier we saw you and papa lying quite straight and still, and we thought that you were dead. And the Herr Tutor vanished away; and we were so frightened that we cried. And we knelt side by side, and prayed to the Christ that He would come down. And the Christ came down from the cross, and came to the bier, and touched it, and you and papa stood up beautiful and smiling, and came towards us with outstretched hands, and the Christ vanished away. And we were so glad that we awoke; and it was dark, and there was no Christ, and no Herr Tutor, who is an angel, and no papa, and no one to tell us what to do or where to go."

As the little Princess ceased some servants came in, with whispered explanations and apologies. The Princess went to her own room. She had not known what to say to the child; indeed, she hardly knew what had passed. She allowed herself to be undressed, and lay down.

But, in the deep silence of the hours that preceded the dawn, an overpowering restlessness took possession of her. A sense of strange forces and influences, to which she was utterly unaccustomed, seemed present to her spirit: a crowd of fair and heavenly existences, which seemed to follow on the steps of that singular boy who had first attracted her wearied fancy, the Signorina's singing, which had stamped this impression upon her mind, the strange tenderness she had been conscious of, the renewed sense of her husband's grace and beauty, his alarming absence, her children's mystical dream. A new world seemed to open to her. She felt how poor and bare her life had been, how deserted by these gracious creatures of the imagination, how unblessed by the purest, the truest art--the art of pathos and of love.

With the streaks of dawn that stole into the chamber she was conscious of an irrepressible desire that took possession of her to rise and go forth. An irresistible power seemed to draw her to follow: she rose, and, dressing herself in such clothes as were at hand, she went out.

The house itself was quite still, but faintly in the distance might be heard the sound of a bell. In so religious a Court as that of Vienna there were private chapels attached to most of the houses of the nobility, and there was one attached to a neighbouring palace, to which there was a private communication with the _Hotel_ taken by the Prince.

Following the sound of the bell the Princess traversed several passages, and reached at last a staircase, down which she turned. As she reached the first landing two women came out from an open door. They started at the sight of the Princess. They were the Princess Isoline and Faustina.

"Is it you, Princess?" said the former. "What has called you up so early?"

"Are you going to the chapel, Isoline?" said the Princess. "May I come with you?"

+ + + + +

The three ladies entered the chapel by a private door, which led them to a pew behind the stalls. Upon the original Gothic stone-work and tracery of the chapel, which was very old, had been introduced rococo work in mahogany and brass, angels and trumpets and scrolls. The stalls and organs were covered with filigree work of this description, the windows filled with paintings in the same florid and incongruous taste. There were few persons in the chapel, most of them being ladies from the adjoining palaces, together with a few musicians, for the musical part of the service was carefully performed by a large and well-paid staff.

Two of the ladies were Protestant, the third, Faustina, a Catholic of a very undeveloped type; but the music of the Mass spoke a mysterious language, recognisable to hearts of every creed.

Before the altar, laden with gilded plate and lighted with candles in silver sconces, the priest said Mass. Above him, in the window, painted in a lovely Italian landscape full of figures, with towns and castles and mountain ranges and market-people with horses and cattle, were represented, in careful and minute painting, the three Marys before the empty tomb.

"The City of the Sunlight," sang the choir, in an elaborate anthem, with an allegro movement of the tenors that spoke of sunshine amid the grass and flowers and flashing sea, of the breezy south wind upon rippling water and golden hair; and after them the bass recitative, with a positive assurance that knew no doubt, asserted "The gates--the gates of it are many--many," which the tenors and altos, with a sudden inspiration, interpreted, "God's purposes fulfilled--fulfilled in many ways;" and the whole choir, in a minor key, as with hushed and awe-struck voices, completed the theme, "But the end is union in the heart--the heart of the Crucifix; in the City--the City of the Saints."

* * * * *

On her return from the chapel a note from the Prince was put into the Princess's hand. It merely stated that he was gone to Hernhuth to the Count Zinzendorf. It had been written at a tavern in the environs of the city, after his sudden determination had been formed the day before, and had been entrusted to a servant of the inn to deliver. He had arrived at the _Hotel_ after the Princess had left, and, on asking for her Highness, had been told by a careless porter that she was at the Palace. Wandering about the Palace courts late at night he had been arrested as a suspicious person, and kept prisoner till the morning.

+ + + + +

In course of time (posts were slow in those days) the Princess received a long letter from her husband, giving an account of Hernhuth, and of his conversations with the Count, and concluding with these words:--

"From all this you will, doubtless, conclude that Hernhuth does not suit me very well, and that the Count and I do not always agree. It would be more after Isoline's taste. I like the children's dream, as you tell it, best. We have been dead, and laid upon a bier; but we will, please God, live hereafter for the children and the Christ."

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BY the kind permission of the Hon. Mrs. MAXWELL-SCOTT, of Abbotsford, the great-granddaughter of Sir WALTER, the MSS. and other material at Abbotsford were examined by Mr. ANDREW LANG during the preparation of his Introductory Essays and Notes to the Series, so that the BORDER EDITION may be said to contain all the results of the latest researches as to the composition of the Waverley Novels.

The Border Waverley

1. WAVERLEY. With 12 Illustrations by Sir H.
RAEBURN, R.A., R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A., JOHN PETTIE,
R.A., H. MACBETH-RAEBURN, D. HERDMAN, W. J.
LEITCH, ROBERT HERDMAN, R.S.A., and J. ECKFORD
LAUDER.

2. GUY MANNERING. With 10 Illustrations by J.
MACWHIRTER, A.R.A., R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A., C. O.
MURRAY, CLARK STANTON, R.S.A., GOURLAY STEELL,
R.S.A., F. S. WALKER, R. HERDMAN, R.S.A., and J.
B. MACDONALD, A.R.S.A.

3. THE ANTIQUARY. With 10 Illustrations by J.
MACWHIRTER, A.R.A., SAM BOUGH, R.S.A., R. HERDMAN,
R.S.A., W. M'TAGGART, A.R.S.A., J. B. MACDONALD,
A.R.S.A., and A. H. TOURRIER.

4. ROB ROY. With 10 Illustrations by R. W.
MACBETH, A.R.A., and SAM BOUGH, R.S.A.

5. OLD MORTALITY. With 10 Illustrations by J.
MACWHIRTER, A.R.A., R. HERDMAN, R.S.A., SAM BOUGH,
R.S.A., M. L. GOW, D. Y. CAMERON, LOCKHART BOGLE,
and ALFRED HARTLEY.

6. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. With 10 Illustrations
by Sir J. E. MILLAIS, Bart., HUGH CAMERON, R.S.A.,
SAM BOUGH, R.S.A., R. HERDMAN, R.S.A., and WAL.
PAGET.

7. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE and THE BLACK DWARF. With
7 Illustrations by Sir GEORGE REID, P.R.S.A.,
GEORGE HAY, R.S.A., HORATIO MACCULLOCH, R.S.A., W.
E. LOCKHART, R.S.A., H. MACBETH-RAEBURN, and T.
SCOTT.

8. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. With 8 Illustrations
by Sir J. E. MILLAIS, Bart., JOHN SMART, R.S.A.,
SAM BOUGH, R.S.A., GEORGE HAY, R.S.A., and H.
MACBETH-RAEBURN.

9. IVANHOE. With 12 Illustrations by AD. LALAUZE.

10. THE MONASTERY. With 10 Illustrations by GORDON
BROWNE.

11. THE ABBOT. With 10 Illustrations by GORDON
BROWNE.

12. KENILWORTH. With 12 Illustrations by AD.
LALAUZE.

13. THE PIRATE. With 10 Illustrations by W. E.
LOCKHART, R.S.A., SAM BOUGH, R.S.A., HERBERT
DICKSEE, W. STRANG, LOCKHART BOGLE, C. J. HOLMES,
and F. S. WALKER.

14. THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL. With 10 Illustrations
by JOHN PETTIE, R.A., and R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A.

15. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK. With 15 Illustrations by
W. Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A., JOHN PETTIE, R.A., F.
DADD, R.I., ARTHUR HOPKINS, A.R.W.S., and S. L.
WOOD.

16. QUENTIN DURWARD. With 12 Illustrations by AD.
LALAUZE.

17. ST. RONAN'S WELL. With 10 Illustrations by Sir
G. REID, P.R.S.A., R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A., W. HOLE,
R.S.A., and A. FORESTIER.

18. REDGAUNTLET. With 12 Illustrations by Sir
JAMES D. LINTON, P.R.I., JAMES ORROCK, R.I., SAM
BOUGH, R.S.A., W. HOLE, R.S.A., G. HAY, R.S.A., T.
SCOTT, A.R.S.A., W. BOUCHER, and FRANK SHORT.

19. THE BETROTHED AND THE TALISMAN. With 10
Illustrations by HERBERT DICKSEE, WAL. PAGET, and
J. LE BLANT.

20. WOODSTOCK. With 10 Illustrations by W. HOLE,
R.S.A.

21. THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH. With 10 Illustrations
by Sir G. REID, P.R.S.A., JOHN PETTIE, R.A., R. W.
MACBETH, A.R.A., and ROBERT HERDMAN, R.S.A.

22. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. With 10 Illustrations by
R. DE LOS RIOS.

23. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS and THE SURGEON'S
DAUGHTER. With 10 Illustrations by W. HATHERELL,
R.I., and W. B. WOLLEN, R.I.

24. CASTLE DANGEROUS, CHRONICLES OF THE
CANON-GATE, ETC. With 10 Illustrations by H.
MACBETH-RAEBURN and G. D. ARMOUR.

The Border Waverley

SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

_TIMES._--"It would be difficult to find in these days a more competent and sympathetic editor of Scott than his countryman, the brilliant and versatile man of letters who has undertaken the task, and if any proof were wanted either of his qualifications or of his skill and discretion in displaying them, Mr. Lang has furnished it abundantly in his charming Introduction to 'Waverley.' The editor's own notes are judiciously sparing, but conspicuously to the point, and they are very discreetly separated from those of the author, Mr. Lang's laudable purpose being to illustrate and explain Scott, not to make the notes a pretext for displaying his own critical faculty and literary erudition. The illustrations by various competent hands are beautiful in themselves and beautifully executed, and, altogether, the 'Border Edition' of the Waverley Novels bids fair to become the classical edition of the great Scottish classic."

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_ATHENAEUM._--"The handsome 'Border Edition' has been brought to a successful conclusion. The publisher deserves to be complimented on the manner in which the edition has been printed and illustrated, and Mr. Lang on the way in which he has performed his portion of the work. His introductions have been tasteful and readable; he has not overdone his part; and, while he has supplied much useful information, he has by no means overburdened the volumes with notes."

_NOTES AND QUERIES._--"This spirited and ambitious enterprise has been conducted to a safe termination, and the most ideal edition of the Waverley Novels in existence is now completed."

_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"Of all the many collections of the Waverley Novels, the 'Border Edition' is incomparably the most handsome and the most desirable.... Type, paper, illustrations, are altogether admirable."

_MAGAZINE OF ART._--"Size, type, paper, and printing, to say nothing of the excessively liberal and charming introduction of the illustrations, make this perhaps the most desirable edition of Scott ever issued on this side of the Border."

_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"There is absolutely no fault to be found with it, as to paper, type, or arrangement."

THE WORKS OF

THOMAS HARDY

Collected Edition

1. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES.
2. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD.
3. THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.
4. A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
5. TWO ON A TOWER.
6. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.
7. THE WOODLANDERS.
8. JUDE THE OBSCURE.
9. THE TRUMPET-MAJOR.
10. THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA.
11. A LAODICEAN.
12. DESPERATE REMEDIES.
13. WESSEX TALES.
14. LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES.
15. A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES.
16. UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.
17. THE WELL-BELOVED.
18. WESSEX POEMS, and other Verses.
19. POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.

THE WORKS OF

CHARLES KINGSLEY

WESTWARD HO!

HYPATIA; or, New Foes with an old Face.

TWO YEARS AGO.

ALTON LOCKE, Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography.

HEREWARD THE WAKE, "Last of the English."

YEAST: A Problem.

POEMS: including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda,
Songs, Ballads, etc.

THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
With Illustrations by LINLEY SAMBOURNE.

THE HEROES; or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children.
With Illustrations by the Author.

GLAUCUS; or, The Wonders of the Shore. With
Illustrations.

MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY; or, First Lessons in Earth
Lore for Children. With Illustrations.

AT LAST. A Christmas in the West Indies. With
Illustrations.

THE HERMITS.

HISTORICAL LECTURES AND ESSAYS.

PLAYS AND PURITANS, and other Historical Essays.

THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON.

PROSE IDYLLS, New and Old.

SCIENTIFIC LECTURES AND ESSAYS.

SANITARY AND SOCIAL LECTURES AND ESSAYS.

LITERARY AND GENERAL LECTURES AND ESSAYS.

ALL SAINTS' DAY: and other Sermons.

DISCIPLINE: and other Sermons.

THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD. Sermons.

GOSPEL OF THE PENTATEUCH.

SERMONS FOR THE TIMES.

VILLAGE SERMONS, AND TOWN AND COUNTRY SERMONS.

THE WATER OF LIFE: and other Sermons.

WESTMINSTER SERMONS.

THE NOVELS

OF

F. MARION CRAWFORD

1. MR. ISAACS: A Tale of Modern India.
2. DOCTOR CLAUDIUS: A True Story.
3. A ROMAN SINGER.
4. ZOROASTER.
5. MARZIO'S CRUCIFIX.
6. A TALE OF A LONELY PARISH.
7. PAUL PATOFF.
8. WITH THE IMMORTALS.
9. GREIFENSTEIN.
10. TAQUISARA: A Novel.
11. A ROSE OF YESTERDAY.
12. SANT' ILARIO.
13. A CIGARETTE-MAKER'S ROMANCE.
14. KHALED: A Tale of Arabia.
15. THE THREE FATES.
16. THE WITCH OF PRAGUE.
17. MARION DARCHE: A Story without Comment.
18. KATHARINE LAUDERDALE.
19. THE CHILDREN OF THE KING.
20. PIETRO GHISLERI.
21. DON ORSINO.
22. CASA BRACCIO.
23. ADAM JOHNSTONE'S SON.
24. THE RALSTONS.
25. CORLEONE: A Tale of Sicily.
26. VIA CRUCIS: A Romance of the Second Crusade.
27. IN THE PALACE OF THE KING: A Love Story of Old Madrid.
28. CECILIA: A Story of Modern Rome.
29. MARIETTA: A Maid of Venice.
30. THE HEART OF ROME.
31. SOPRANO: A Portrait.
32. "WHOSOEVER SHALL OFFEND----"
33. A LADY OF ROME.
34. ARETHUSA.

THE NOVELS

OF

ROLF BOLDREWOOD

1. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS: A Story of Life and
Adventure in the Bush and in the Gold-fields of
Australia.

2. A MODERN BUCCANEER.

3. THE MINER'S RIGHT: A Tale of the Australian
Gold-fields.

4. THE SQUATTER'S DREAM.

5. A SYDNEY-SIDE SAXON.

6. A COLONIAL REFORMER.

7. NEVERMORE.

8. PLAIN LIVING: A Bush Idyll.

9. MY RUN HOME.

10. THE SEALSKIN CLOAK.

11. THE CROOKED STICK; or, Pollie's Probation.

12. OLD MELBOURNE MEMORIES.

13. A ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN, and other Stories.

14. WAR TO THE KNIFE; or, Tangata Maori.

15. BABES IN THE BUSH.

16. IN BAD COMPANY, and other Stories.

By H. G. WELLS

THE PLATTNER STORY: and others.
TALES OF SPACE AND TIME.
THE STOLEN BACILLUS: and other Incidents.
THE INVISIBLE MAN. A Grotesque Romance.
LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM. A Story of a very Young Couple.
WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES.
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.
TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAM.
THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT Came to Earth.
KIPPS: The Story of a Simple Soul.

By A. E. W. MASON

THE COURTSHIP OF MORRICE BUCKLER.
THE PHILANDERERS.
MIRANDA OF THE BALCONY.

By EGERTON CASTLE

"LA BELLA": and others.
"YOUNG APRIL."
MARSHFIELD THE OBSERVER.
By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE
THE BATH COMEDY.
THE PRIDE OF JENNICO. Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico.
THE SECRET ORCHARD.

By MAARTEN MAARTENS

THE GREATER GLORY. A Story of High Life.
MY LADY NOBODY. A Novel.
GOD'S FOOL. A Koopstad Story.
THE SIN OF JOOST AVELINGH. A Dutch Story.
HER MEMORY.
AN OLD MAID'S LOVE.

THE NOVELS OF

ROSA N. CAREY

_WESTMINSTER GAZETTE._--"A clever delineator of
character, possessed of a reserve of strength in a
quiet, easy, flowing style, Miss Carey never fails
to please a large class of readers."

_STANDARD._--"Miss Carey has the gift of writing
naturally and simply, her pathos is true and
unforced, and her conversations are sprightly and
sharp."

_LADY._--"Miss Carey's novels are always welcome;
they are out of the common run--immaculately pure,
and very high in tone."

Over 700,000 of these works have been printed.

1. NELLIE'S MEMORIES. 52nd Thousand.
2. WEE WIFIE. 38th Thousand.
3. BARBARA HEATHCOTE'S TRIAL. 35th Thousand.
4. ROBERT ORD'S ATONEMENT. 28th Thousand.
5. WOOED AND MARRIED. 38th Thousand.
6. HERIOT'S CHOICE. 27th Thousand.
7. QUEENIE'S WHIM. 32nd Thousand.
8. NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS. 41st Thousand.
9. MARY ST. JOHN. 27th Thousand.
10. FOR LILIAS. 26th Thousand.
11. UNCLE MAX. 34th Thousand.
12. RUE WITH A DIFFERENCE. 24th Thousand.
13. THE HIGHWAY OF FATE. 23rd Thousand.
14. ONLY THE GOVERNESS. 37th Thousand.
15. LOVER OR FRIEND? 27th Thousand.
16. BASIL LYNDHURST. 24th Thousand.
17. SIR GODFREY'S GRAND-DAUGHTERS. 25th Thousand.
18. THE OLD, OLD STORY. 27th Thousand.
19. THE MISTRESS OF BRAE FARM. 30th Thousand.
20. MRS. ROMNEY and "BUT MEN MUST WORK." 14th Thousand.
21. OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES. 5th Thousand.
22. HERB OF GRACE. 25th Thousand.
23. A PASSAGE PERILOUS. 22nd Thousand.
24. AT THE MOORINGS. 21st Thousand.
25. THE HOUSEHOLD OF PETER. 21st Thousand.
26. NO FRIEND LIKE A SISTER. 18th Thousand.
27. THE ANGEL OF FORGIVENESS. 17th Thousand.

THE NOVELS AND TALES OF

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE

THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE. With Illustrations by KATE
GREENAWAY.

HEARTSEASE; or, the Brother's Wife. New Edition.
With Illustrations by KATE GREENAWAY.

HOPES AND FEARS; or, Scenes from the Life of a
Spinster. With Illustrations by HERBERT GANDY.

DYNEVOR TERRACE; or, the Clue of Life. With
Illustrations by ADRIAN STOKES.

THE DAISY CHAIN; or, Aspirations. A Family
Chronicle With Illustrations by J. P. ATKINSON.

THE TRIAL: More Links of the Daisy Chain. With
Illustrations by J. P. ATKINSON.

THE PILLARS OF THE HOUSE; or, Under Wode, under
Rode. Two Vols. With Illustrations by HERBERT
GANDY.

THE YOUNG STEPMOTHER; or, a Chronicle of Mistakes.
With Illustrations by MARIAN HUXLEY.

THE CLEVER WOMAN OF THE FAMILY. With Illustrations
by ADRIAN STOKES.

THE THREE BRIDES. With Illustrations by ADRIAN
STOKES.

MY YOUNG ALCIDES: A Faded Photograph. With
Illustrations by ADRIAN STOKES.

THE CAGED LION. With Illustrations by W. J.
HENNESSY.

THE DOVE IN THE EAGLE'S NEST. With Illustrations
by W. J. HENNESSY.

THE CHAPLET OF PEARLS; or, the White and Black
Ribaumont. With Illustrations by W. J. HENNESSY.

LADY HESTER; or, Ursula's Narrative; and THE
DANVERS PAPERS. With Illustrations by JANE E.
COOK.

MAGNUM BONUM; or, Mother Carey's Brood. With
Illustrations by W. J. HENNESSY.

LOVE AND LIFE: an Old Story in Eighteenth Century
Costume. With Illustrations by W. J. HENNESSY.

UNKNOWN TO HISTORY. A Story of the Captivity of
Mary of Scotland. With Illustrations by W. J.
HENNESSY.

STRAY PEARLS. Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont,
Viscountess of Bellaise. With Illustrations by W.
J. HENNESSY.

THE ARMOURER'S 'PRENTICES. With Illustrations by
W. J. HENNESSY.

SCENES AND CHARACTERS; or, Eighteen Months at
Beechcroft. With Illustrations by W. J. HENNESSY.

CHANTRY HOUSE. With Illustrations by W. J.
HENNESSY.

A MODERN TELEMACHUS. With Illustrations by W. J.
HENNESSY.

BYWORDS. A collection of Tales new and old.

BEECHCROFT AT ROCKSTONE.

MORE BYWORDS.

A REPUTED CHANGELING; or, Three Seventh Years Two
Centuries Ago.

THE LITTLE DUKE, RICHARD THE FEARLESS. With
Illustrations.

THE LANCES OF LYNWOOD. With Illustrations by J. B.

THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE: A Story of the Last
Crusade. With Illustrations by ADRIAN STOKES.

TWO PENNILESS PRINCESSES. With Illustrations by W.
J. HENNESSY.

THAT STICK.

AN OLD WOMAN'S OUTLOOK IN A HAMPSHIRE VILLAGE.

GRISLY GRISELL; or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn. A
Tale of the Wars of the Roses.

HENRIETTA'S WISH. Second Edition.

THE LONG VACATION.

THE RELEASE; or, Caroline's French Kindred.

THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE BEN BERIAH.

THE TWO GUARDIANS; or, Home in this World. Second
Edition.

COUNTESS KATE AND THE STOKESLEY SECRET.

MODERN BROODS; or, Developments Unlooked for.

STROLLING PLAYERS: A Harmony of Contrasts. By C.
M. YONGE and C. R. COLERIDGE.

Works by Mrs. Craik

Olive: A Novel. With Illustrations by G. BOWERS.
Agatha's Husband: A Novel. With Illustrations by WALTER CRANE.
The Head of the Family: A Novel. With Illustrations by WALTER CRANE.
Two Marriages.
The Laurel Bush.
King Arthur: Not a Love Story.
About Money, and other Things.
Concerning Men, and other Papers.

Works by Mrs. Oliphant

Neighbours on the Green.
Kirsteen: the Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago.
A Beleaguered City: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen.
Hester: a Story of Contemporary Life.
He that Will Not when He May.
The Railway Man and his Children.
The Marriage of Elinor.
Sir Tom.
The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent.
A Country Gentleman and his Family.
A Son of the Soil.
The Second Son.
The Wizard's Son: A Novel.
Lady William.
Young Musgrave.

The Works of Dean Farrar

SEEKERS AFTER GOD. The Lives of Seneca, Epictetus,
and Marcus Aurelius.

ETERNAL HOPE. Sermons preached in Westminster
Abbey.

THE FALL OF MAN: and other Sermons.

THE WITNESS OF HISTORY TO CHRIST.

THE SILENCE AND VOICES OF GOD, with other Sermons.

"IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH." Sermons on Practical
Subjects.

SAINTLY WORKERS. Five Lenten Lectures.

EPHPHATHA; or, the Amelioration of the World.

MERCY AND JUDGMENT: a few last words on Christian
Eschatology.

SERMONS & ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN AMERICA.

THE WORKS OF

Frederick Denison Maurice

SERMONS PREACHED IN LINCOLN'S INN CHAPEL. In six
vols.

SERMONS PREACHED IN COUNTRY CHURCHES.

CHRISTMAS DAY: and other Sermons.

THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS.

THE PROPHETS AND KINGS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

THE PATRIARCHS AND LAWGIVERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN.

THE EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN.

THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS: and other Lectures.

THE PRAYER BOOK AND THE LORD'S PRAYER.

THE DOCTRINE OF SACRIFICE. Deduced from the
Scriptures.

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.

THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST; or, Hints to a Quaker
respecting the Principles, Constitution, and
Ordinances of the Catholic Church. 2 vols.

By J. H. SHORTHOUSE

JOHN INGLESANT: A Romance.
SIR PERCIVAL: a Story of the Past and of the Present.
THE LITTLE SCHOOLMASTER MARK.
THE COUNTESS EVE.
A TEACHER OF THE VIOLIN.
BLANCHE, LADY FALAISE.

By GERTRUDE ATHERTON

THE CONQUEROR.
A DAUGHTER OF THE VINE.
THE CALIFORNIANS.

By HUGH CONWAY

A FAMILY AFFAIR.

By W. CLARK RUSSELL

MAROONED.

By ANNIE KEARY

A YORK AND A LANCASTER ROSE.

CASTLE DALY: the Story of an Irish Home thirty years ago.

JANET'S HOME.

OLDBURY.

A DOUBTING HEART.

THE NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL.

By THOMAS HUGHES

TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS.
TOM BROWN AT OXFORD.
THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE.
ALFRED THE GREAT.

By ARCHIBALD FORBES

BARRACKS, BIVOUACS, AND BATTLES.
SOUVENIRS OF SOME CONTINENTS.

By MONTAGU WILLIAMS

LEAVES OF A LIFE.
ROUND LONDON.
LATER LEAVES.

By E. WERNER

FICKLE FORTUNE.

By W. E. NORRIS

THIRLBY HALL.
A BACHELOR'S BLUNDER.

The Works of SHAKESPEARE

VICTORIA EDITION. In Three Volumes.
Vol. I. COMEDIES. Vol. II. HISTORIES. Vol. III. TRAGEDIES.

UNIFORM EDITION OF THE

NOVELS OF CHARLES LEVER

With all the Original Illustrations.

1. HARRY LORREQUER. Illustrated by PHIZ.

2. CHARLES O'MALLEY. Illustrated by PHIZ.

3. JACK HINTON THE GUARDSMAN. Illustrated by PHIZ.

4. TOM BURKE OF OURS. Illustrated by PHIZ.

5. ARTHUR O'LEARY. Illustrated by G. CRUIKSHANK.

6. LORD KILGOBBIN. Illustrated by LUKE FILDES.

By W. WARDE FOWLER

A YEAR WITH THE BIRDS. Illustrated.
TALES OF THE BIRDS. Illustrated.
MORE TALES OF THE BIRDS. Illustrated.
SUMMER STUDIES OF BIRDS AND BOOKS.

By FRANK BUCKLAND

CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY. Illustrated. In
four volumes:

FIRST SERIES--Rats, Serpents, Fishes, Frogs,
Monkeys, etc.

SECOND SERIES--Fossils, Bears, Wolves, Cats,
Eagles, Hedgehogs, Eels, Herrings, Whales.

THIRD SERIES--Wild Ducks, Fishing, Lions, Tigers,
Foxes, Porpoises.

FOURTH SERIES--Giants, Mummies, Mermaids,
Wonderful People, Salmon, etc.

Works by Various Authors

Hogan, M.P.

Flitters, Tatters, and the Counsellor

The New Antigone

Memories of Father Healy

CANON ATKINSON.--The Last of the Giant Killers

---- Playhours and Half-Holidays; or, further
Experiences of Two Schoolboys

SIR S. BAKER.--True Tales for my Grandsons

R. H. BARHAM.--The Ingoldsby Legends

REV. R. H. D. BARHAM.--Life of Theodore Hook

BLENNERHASSET AND SLEEMAN.--Adventures in
Mashonaland

LANOE FALCONER.--Cecilia de Noel

W. FORBES-MITCHELL.--Reminiscences of the Great
Mutiny

REV. J. GILMORE.--Storm Warriors

MARY LINSKILL.--Tales of the North Riding

S. R. LYSAGHT.--The Marplot

---- One of the Grenvilles