’An historical novel of a thoroughly legitimate kind, for the picture and the character are brought before us with sufficient vividness, yet mainly through the words and thoughts of the fictitious heroine, and through her close sympathy with her friend.’—­Athenaeum.

’A tale of rare imaginative beauty.  Needless to say, the literary charm of the book is great, and the atmosphere of the story true to its historical setting.’—­Dundee Advertiser.

’No living writer is so thoroughly at home in describing French life as Miss Edwards is, or better able to give a life-like picture of the social condition of France at the period of Charlotte Corday’s daring deed.’—­Hastings Observer.

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THE CURB OF HONOUR.

BY M. BETHAM-EDWARDS.

Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d.

’The descriptions of scenery in the Pyrenees are very attractive, and the author has been most skilful in her delineations of the characters of the leading actors.’—­Literary World.

’The concluding chapter is a piece of masterly tragi-comedy.  When I say that this scene is suggestive of Balzac, I mean a high compliment.’—­Academy.

’Miss Betham-Edwards is a popular favourite of longstanding.  She loves to take her readers into some quiet corner of France, and her gift of picturesque description is such that her tales seldom fail to yield interest and recreation.’—­Times.

A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

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AN ISLE IN THE WATER.

BY KATHARINE TYNAN (MRS. HINKSON).

AUTHOR OF ‘OH, WHAT A PLAGUE IS LOVE!’

Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d.

’Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance, comes a woman artist.  “An Isle in the Water” is a collection of fifteen well-conceived and excellently-finished Irish stories, for which it would be hard to find anything to say but praise.  They are all extremely short for the force of their effect, and every touch tells; they are gracefully phrased without an appearance of artifice, subtly expressed without a suspicion of affectation.’—­Saturday Review.

’I venture to assert that in any one of its fifteen tales there is a finer rendering of the very essence of Irish life and character than in any half-dozen of the books which are responsible for the conception of the conventional Pat or Biddy which has had such a long and prosperous vogue on this side of the Channel.  The book owes its momentum to its fascinating and powerful rendering of the pathos and the tragedy of the simple lives with which the writer deals.  But this fascination and power are far too obvious to stand in need of celebration.’—­New Age.

’Any faults the book may have are redeemed by a page torn from the authoress’s own heart.  “Changing the Nurseries” is a chapter no woman, mother, or maid could read without a lump in her throat.  The strong maternal element, which is the chief virtue of the Irish, is rife in it, and the thousand and one little trivialities that our life is made up of are admirably commented upon.’—­St. James’s Budget.