’A strong and successful piece of workmanship.  The portrait of Lali, strong, dignified, and pure, is exceptionally well drawn.’—­Manchester Guardian.

’A very pretty and interesting story, and Mr. Parker tells it with much skill.  The story is one to be read.’—­St. James’s Gazette.

GILBERT PARKER.  THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD.  By GILBERT PARKER, Author of ‘Pierre and his People,’ etc. Third Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’Everybody with a soul for romance will thoroughly enjoy “The Trail of the Sword."’—­St. James’s Gazette.

’A rousing and dramatic tale.  A book like this, in which swords flash, great surprises are undertaken, and daring deeds done, in which men and women live and love in the old straightforward passionate way, is a joy inexpressible to the reviewer, brain-weary of the domestic tragedies and psychological puzzles of everyday fiction; and we cannot but believe that to the reader it will bring refreshment as welcome and as keen.’—­Daily Chronicle.

GILBERT PARKER.  WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC; The Story of a Lost Napoleon.  By GILBERT PARKER. Second Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’Here we find romance—­real, breathing, living romance, but it runs flush with our own times, level with our own feelings.  Not here can we complain of lack of inevitableness or homogeneity.  The character of Valmond is drawn unerringly; his career, brief as it is, is placed before us as convincingly as history itself.  The book must be read, we may say re-read, for any one thoroughly to appreciate Mr. Parker’s delicate touch and innate sympathy with humanity.’—­Pall Mall Gazette.

ARTHUR MORRISON.  TALES OF MEAN STREETS.  By ARTHUR MORRISON. Third Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6s.

’Told with consummate art and extraordinary detail.  He tells a plain, unvarnished tale, and the very truth of it makes for beauty.  In the true humanity of the book lies its justification, the permanence of its interest, and its indubitable triumph.’—­Athenaeum.

’A great book.  The author’s method is amazingly effective, and produces a thrilling sense of reality.  The writer lays upon us a master hand.  The book is simply appalling and irresistible in its interest.  It is humorous also; without humour it would not make the mark it is certain to make.’—­World.

JULIAN CORBETT.  A BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS.  By JULIAN CORBETT, Author of ‘For God and Gold,’ ‘Kophetus XIIIth.,’ etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.

’There is plenty of incident and movement in this romance.  It is interesting as a novel framed in an historical setting, and it is all the more worthy of attention from the lover of romance as being absolutely free from the morbid, the frivolous, and the ultra-sexual.’—­Athenaeum.

’A stirring tale of naval adventure during the Great French War.  The book is full of picturesque and attractive characters.’—­Glasgow Herald.