NEW WORK BY BARRY PAIN.

THE KINDNESS OF THE CELESTIAL.

By the Author of “In a Canadian Canoe,” etc.

Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

“Has a quaintness and distinction of its own, an elusive quality of style, a personal touch, that lends to it a whimsical fascination,”—­Daily News.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

IN A CANADIAN CANOE.

Fourth Edition.  Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

“The pleasant and even remarkable book which Mr. Barry Pain has contributed to the Whitefriars Library.  The best thing in the book, to our mind, is ‘The Celestial Grocery,’ a quaint and thoroughly original blending of effervescent humour with grim pathos.”—­Pall Mall Gazette.

“Mr. Barry Pain has a decided sense of humour.  The best things in the volume are the classical burlesques grouped under the title of ‘The Nine Muses minus One.’  They are really clever and full of esprit.”—­Academy.

“Nor is he deficient in fancy, and ‘The Celestial Grocery’ is as whimsical as it is fresh.  ‘Bill’ is in yet another vein, and proves that Mr. Pain can handle the squalor of reality:  while the last half of ‘The Girl and the Beetle,’ the best of the book, suggests a certain comprehension of character.”—­National Observer.

“An original worker, a man who copies no one either in treatment or style—­this, his first volume, should find a wide popularity.”—­The Review of Reviews.

“If you want a really refreshing book, a book whose piquant savour and quaint originality of style are good for jaded brains, buy and read In a Canadian Canoe....  There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight, and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour.  As for ‘The Celestial Grocery,’ I can only say that it is in its way a masterpiece.”—­Punch.

STORIES AND INTERLUDES.

Second Edition.  Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

“Mr. Pain has a delicate fancy and a graceful style, a bitter-sweet humour, and a plentiful endowment of ‘the finer perceptions.’"_—­Punch._

“Amazingly clever....  Teems with satire and good things.”—­Speaker.

“‘The Magic Morning,’ though dealing with a young city man and his wife, has the atmosphere of far-away dreaminess which is so charming in some of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories.”—­Saturday Review.

“There is something delightfully, because unsatisfactorily, fascinating in these stories, with their touch of diablerie, their elusiveness.”—­National Review.

“If we laugh less over these pages than over the grotesque absurdities that abounded in the former collection of sketches, we are the more fascinated by the quiet subtlety of their humour, their irony and pathos.”—­Evening News and Post.