NOTICE.

IMPORTANT NEW WORK by the Author of
“Recommended to Mercy.”

In 2 vols., Crown 8vo, 18s.

Early in June will be published a New Work by

MRS. HOUSTOUN,
Author of “Barbara’s Warning,”

Entitled

MEMORIES OF
WORLD-KNOWN MEN,

Containing Personal Recollections of

WORDSWORTH, JOHN WILSON CROKER,
THEODORE HOOK, WILLIAM IV., the late
LORD DERBY, MRS. NORTON, HARRISON
AINSWORTH, and other well-known personages.

F. V. WHITE & CO.,
31, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.

June, 1883.

F. V. WHITE & CO.’S SELECT NOVELS.

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

The Following Volumes of the Series are Now Ready,

And can be obtained of all Booksellers in Town and Country, and at all Railway Bookstalls.

Those marked thus (*) can also be had in Picture Boards, 2s.

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. By Florence Marryat, Author of “Love’s Conflict,” “Phyllida,” “A Broken Blossom,” &c., &c., &c.

“‘The Root of all Evil’ is quite up to Miss Marryat’s reputation, and can be honestly recommended to those who enjoy a good strong story, capitally written, in this clever writer’s best style.”—Morning Post.

ALLERTON TOWERS. By Annie Thomas (Mrs. Pender Cudlip), Author of “Denis Donne,” “Friends and Lovers,” &c.

* THE DEAN’S WIFE. By Mrs. Eiloart, Author of “My Lady Clare,” “How He Won Her,” “Some of our Girls,” &c., &c., &c.

“Any reader who wants a good story thoroughly well told cannot do better than read ‘The Dean’s Wife.’”—John Bull.

“‘The Dean’s Wife’ must be classed as a decidedly good novel.”—Graphic.

* MY SISTER THE ACTRESS. By Florence Marryat, Author of “A Broken Blossom,” “Phyllida,” “How They Loved Him,” &c., &c.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“‘My Sister the Actress’ is the best novel we have had the pleasure of reading from the pen of Miss Florence Marryat.”—John Bull.

“The three volumes will be read through with avidity.”—Court Journal.

“‘My Sister the Actress’ is infinitely above the average run of novels.... A skilfully told and remarkably interesting story which will add to Miss Marryat’s reputation.”—Court Circular.

“The tone of the book is distinctly wholesome.”—Scotsman.

“It is both clever and amusing.”—Daily News.

“Everywhere it is fresh, lively, and thoughtful.”—Public Opinion.

“The characters are drawn with great power.... The story is one of unusual interest and ought to secure a great number of readers.”—Sunday Times.

“We can fully recommend the book to our readers as being thoroughly interesting and cleverly written.”—Sylvia’s Home Journal.

“It is a very pretty story and told in the Author’s happiest manner.”—Morning Post.

“We have been agreeably surprised, and have no hesitation in placing this latest work far beyond her previous novels.”—Lloyd’s.

* A BROKEN BLOSSOM. By Florence Marryat, Author of “Phyllida,” “Facing the Footlights,” &c., &c., &c.

“Deserves to be ranked as the most artistic and altogether the best work of fiction its clever and prolific author has yet written.”—Scotsman.

“A really charming story, full of delicate pathos and quiet humour, pleasant to read, and pleasant to remember.”—John Bull.

“‘A Broken Blossom’ is a pleasantly told tale, and will doubtless find acceptance with many.”—Morning Post.

* SWEETHEART AND WIFE. By Lady Constance Howard, Author of “Mollie Darling,” &c., &c.

“The story from first to last is attractive, and cannot fail to command wide favour.... There is, indeed, throughout the whole of the story a most unusual power, not only of language but of imagination, and the tender pathos, which is introduced in no laboured fashion, adds a charm which it is difficult to describe, but impossible for the reader not to appreciate.”—Whitehall Review.

“There is a genuine flavour of the old-fashioned romance in it which is too frequently lacking in what may be termed the latter-day novel.”—Court Circular.

“‘Sweetheart and Wife’ is a love idyll, skilfully painted in the midst of many people and many scenes, described by one who writes with that very rare attribute of the modern novelist—knowledge of, and familiarity with, the society she pictures.”—Life.

“So many pretentious people write stupidly and ignorantly of fashionable life that it is a real pleasure to come across a novel by one who is thoroughly familiar with Society and all its little vanities. From this point of view ‘Sweetheart and Wife’ is a book which is likely to be in great demand at the circulating libraries for some time to come. It is a love story, told with charming simplicity and not a little power. Many of the descriptions are full of picturesque beauty, the dialogue is strikingly natural, and the plot is consistently and cleverly developed.”—Society.

* TWO MEN AND A MAID. By Harriett Jay, Author of “The Queen of Connaught,” “Madge Dunraven,” “The Priest’s Blessing,” &c., &c., &c.

“Compared with the former works of the authoress of ‘The Queen of Connaught’ this novel must be pronounced second to none.”—Graphic.

“The gradual building up of the incidents preceding the wedding and the dim foreshadowing of catastrophe are managed with such skill as to produce the greatest excitement of expectation.”—Sunday Times.

“Abounding in pathetic incidents and strongly dramatic situations.”—North British Daily Mail.

PHYLLIDA. By Florence Marryat, Author of “My Sister the Actress,” “A Broken Blossom,” &c., &c., &c.

“This is one of the most fascinating and interesting novels we have met with for a long time.”—Sunday Times.

“This is the best of Miss Marryat’s works; the plot is original and fantastic, full of spirit and vitality. ‘Phyllida’ is decidedly one of the best novels of the season.”—Court Journal.

“‘Phyllida’ is a novel of which the author may justly be proud.”—Morning Post.

“It is brightly written and thoroughly readable.”—Lloyd’s.

“‘Phyllida’ has all the advantage which a very striking and dramatic opening can give it.”—John Bull.

BARBARA’S WARNING. By Mrs. Houstoun, Author of “Recommended to Mercy,” “Lost in the Crowd,” &c., &c.

SOME OF OUR GIRLS. By Mrs. Eiloart, Author of “The Dean’s Wife,” “How He Won Her,” &c., &c., &c.

“... The book is well worth perusing.”—John Bull.

“‘Some of Our Girls’ must be commended as a book with an unusually good purpose, and as quite interesting enough to deserve the attention of the others of ‘our girls’ to whom it appeals.”—Globe.

“The freshness, the purity, the simplicity of style, the truth and the directness of purpose which always characterise Mrs. Eiloart’s novels make them very enjoyable reading; and in all these points ‘Some of Our Girls’ is fully up to the level of its predecessors ... and few who take up the book will lay it down without feeling that the author has contributed to their intellectual enjoyment.”—Scotsman.

A PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY. By Mrs. Alexander Fraser, Author of “Guardian and Lover,” &c.

THE PRIEST’S BLESSING. By Harriett Jay, Author of “Two Men and a Maid,” “The Queen of Connaught,” &c.

(Dedicated to the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P.)

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“Told with much pathos and power.”—Era.

“We can say for ourselves that we have read its three hundred pages with unfailing interest.”—Saturday Review.

“It is an interesting story, and thoroughly well worth the perusal of all who have the welfare at Ireland and the Irish honestly at heart.”—Sunday Times.

“Intimate knowledge of the national character is shown by the writer, who inscribes her book to Mr. Forster in earnest and somewhat impulsive language.”—Daily Telegraph.

“Miss Harriett Jay is already so well known to the public as a perfect mistress of style, that we need bestow no greater praise upon the little volume before us than by saying that in this respect it fully justifies the reputation acquired by the author of ‘The Queen of Connaught.’... Is well and boldly written.”—Court Journal.

“Miss Jay paints with graphic power the scenes of the story, and some of her descriptions of events and incidents are most vigorous and refreshing in their terse eloquence.”—Nonconformist.

“Any one who wishes to realise the mischief which may be done by the ceaseless plotting of the Catholic priests cannot do better than read ‘The Priest’s Blessing.’”—Lloyd’s.

“The novel is certain to attract exceptional attention.”—Graphic.

POPULAR 2s. NOVELS.

A BROKEN BLOSSOM. By Florence Marryat, Author of “My Sister the Actress,” “Phyllida,” &c., &c. In picture boards, 2s.; post free, 2s. 4d.

“Deserves to be ranked as the most artistic and altogether the best work of fiction its clever and prolific author has yet written.”—Scotsman.

“A really charming story, full of delicate pathos and quiet humour, pleasant to read, and pleasant to remember.”—John Bull.

THE DEAN’S WIFE. By Mrs. Eiloart, Author of “How He Won Her,” “Some of Our Girls,” “My Lady Clare,” &c., &c. In picture boards, 2s.; post free, 2s. 4d.

“Any reader who wants a good story thoroughly well told cannot do better than read ‘The Dean’s Wife.’”—John Bull.

MY SISTER THE ACTRESS. By Florence Marryat, Author of “Phyllida,” “How They Loved Him,” &c., &c. In picture boards, 2s.; post free, 2s. 4d.

“Will be read through with avidity.”—Court Journal.

“‘My Sister the Actress’ is infinitely above the average run of novels. A skilfully told and remarkably interesting story which will add to Miss Marryat’s reputation.”—Court Circular.

“The tone of the book is distinctly wholesome.”—Scotsman.

“It is both clever and amusing.”—Daily News.

TWO MEN AND A MAID. By Harriett Jay, Author of “The Queen of Connaught,” “My Connaught Cousins,” &c. In picture boards, 2s.; post free, 2s. 4d.

“Compared with the former works of the authoress of ‘The Queen of Connaught’ this novel must be pronounced second to none.”—Graphic.

AN INNOCENT SINNER. By Mabel Collins, Author of “Too Red a Dawn,” “In the Flower of Her Youth,” &c. In picture boards, 2s.; post free, 2s. 4d.

“Miss Collins, who writes with correctness and vigour, has chosen in ‘An Innocent Sinner’ to rely for interest on an entirely new combination of circumstances. This ... is elaborated with some skill.”—Athenæum.

“Thinkers, who are not too wise in their own conceit, will give the book a much higher place in their esteem than is usually accorded to a work of fiction.... The book is one that ought to be both read and studied.”—Whitehall Review.

“Decidedly remarkable, and very well worth reading.”—Morning Post.

“Of peculiar originality and power.... For her freedom from extravagance in dealing with a topic which makes extravagance an almost irresistible temptation, Miss Collins must be especially commended.”—Globe.

“Must certainly be acquitted of any tendency to the conventional or commonplace—the besetting sin of the novelists of the day.... The situation is, no doubt, a delicate one, but we do not think the author’s treatment of it can be fairly objected to on the score of propriety or good taste.”—Graphic.

“There are both prettiness and ingenuity in the novel which Miss Mabel Collins, the clever daughter of a gifted father, has written—‘An Innocent Sinner.’ There is a grace and a power, as well as a strangeness, about the book which will secure for it many readers.”—World.

HOW HE WON HER. By Mrs. Eiloart, Author of “The Dean’s Wife,” “My Lady Clare,” “Some of Our Girls,” &c., &c.