W.E.  NORRIS.  MATTHEW AUSTIN.  By W.E.  NORRIS, Author of ’Mademoiselle de Mersac,’ etc. Third Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’"Matthew Austin” may safely be pronounced one of the most intellectually satisfactory and morally bracing novels of the current year.’—­Daily Telegraph.

’Mr. W.E.  Norris is always happy in his delineation of everyday experiences, but rarely has he been brighter or breezier than in “Matthew Austin.”  The pictures are in Mr. Norris’s pleasantest vein, while running through the entire story is a felicity of style and wholesomeness of tone which one is accustomed to find in the novels of this favourite author.’—­Scotsman.

W.E.  NORRIS.  HIS GRACE.  By W.E.  NORRIS, Author of ’Mademoiselle de Mersac.’ Third Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’Mr. Norris has drawn a really fine character in the Duke of Hurstbourne, at once unconventional and very true to the conventionalities of life, weak and strong in a breath, capable of inane follies and heroic decisions, yet not so definitely portrayed as to relieve a reader of the necessity of study on his own behalf.’—­Athenaeum.

W.E.  NORRIS.  THE DESPOTIC LADY AND OTHERS.  By W.E.  NORRIS, Author of ‘Mademoiselle de Mersac.’ Crown 8vo. 6s.

’A delightfully humorous tale of a converted and rehabilitated rope-dancer.’—­Glasgow Herald.

’The ingenuity of the idea, the skill with which it is worked out, and the sustained humour of its situations, make it after its own manner a veritable little masterpiece.’—­Westminster Gazette.

’A budget of good fiction of which no one will tire.’—­Scotsman.

’An extremely entertaining volume—­the sprightliest of holiday companions.’—­Daily Telegraph.

GILBERT PARKER.  MRS. FALCHION.  By GILBERT PARKER, Author of ’Pierre and His People.’ Second Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

Mr. Parker’s second book has received a warm welcome.  The ‘Athenaeum’ called it ‘a splendid study of character’; the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ spoke of the writing as ’but little behind anything that has been done by any writer of our time’; the ‘St. James’s’ called it ’a very striking and admirable novel’; and the ‘Westminster Gazette’ applied to it the epithet of ‘distinguished.’

GILBERT PARKER.  PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE.  By GILBERT PARKER. Second Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’Stories happily conceived and finely executed.  There is strength and genius in Mr. Parker’s style.’—­Daily Telegraph.

GILBERT PARKER.  THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE.  By GILBERT PARKER, Author of ‘Pierre and His People,’ ‘Mrs. Falchion,’ etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.

’The plot is original and one difficult to work out; but Mr. Parker has done it with great skill and delicacy.  The reader who is not interested in this original, fresh, and well-told tale must be a dull person indeed.’—­Daily Chronicle.