Fiction
Messrs. Methuen call attention to the fact that the following novels are issued for the first time in one volume instead of in the old two and three volume form.
Gilbert Parker. THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD. By Gilbert Parker, Author of 'Pierre and his People,' etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.
A historical romance dealing with the stirring period in the history of Canada in which France and England were contending for its possession.
Anthony Hope. A MAN OF MARK. By Anthony Hope, Author of 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' 'The God in the Car,' etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.
This is a re-issue of Anthony Hope's first novel. It has been out of print for some years, and in view of the great popularity of the author, it has been reprinted. It is a story of political adventure in South America, and is rather in the style of 'The Prisoner of Zenda.'
Mrs. Clifford. A FLASH OF SUMMER. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford, Author of 'Aunt Anne,' etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.
This is the first long story which Mrs. Clifford has written since the remarkably successful 'Aunt Anne.'
M. M. Dowie. GALLIA. By Mene Muriel Dowie. Author of 'A Girl in the Carpathians.' Crown 8vo. 6s.
This is a story of modern society by the author of 'A Girl in the Carpathians,' which was probably one of the most popular books of travel ever published.
Mrs. Oliphant. SIR ROBERT'S FORTUNE. By Mrs. Oliphant. Crown 8vo. 6s.
Mrs. Pinsent. CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD. By Ellen F. Pinsent, Author of 'Jenny's Case.' Crown 8vo. 6s.
A story of modern life and thought, being a study of two opposite types—the Christian and the Agnostic. Mrs. Pinsent's first book was very successful, and the leading critics spoke of it as a remarkable and powerful story, and as one which made them look forward with keen interest to the author's next book.
W. E. Norris. THE DESPOTIC LADY AND OTHERS. By W. E. Norris, Author of 'The Rogue,' etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.
E. F. Benson. LADY MASSINGTON'S RESURRECTION, AND OTHER STORIES. By E. F. Benson, Author of 'Dodo.' Crown 8vo. 6s.
Julian Corbett. A BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS. By Julian Corbett, Author of 'For God and Gold,' 'Cophetua XIIIth.,' etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.
This is a historical romance of the time of the French Revolution by a writer whose previous stories have been much praised for their 'romantic beauty and profound interest and nervous strength of style.' Many critics noticed their 'wholesome freshness' and 'vivid reproduction of the past.'
Gilbert Parker. AN ADVENTURER OF THE NORTH. By Gilbert Parker, Author of 'Pierre and his People,' 'The Translation of a Savage,' etc. Crown 8vo. 6s.
This book consists of more tales of the Far North, and contains the last adventures of 'Pretty Pierre.' Mr. Parker's first volume of Canadian stories was published about two years ago, and was received with unanimous praise.
Philipps-Woolley. THE QUEENSBERRY CUP. A Tale of Adventure. By Clive Philipps Woolley, Author of 'Snap,' Part Author of 'Big Game Shooting,' Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 6s.
This is a story of amateur pugilism and chivalrous adventure, written by an author whose books on sport are well known.
Miss Benson. SUBJECT TO VANITY. By Margaret Benson. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
A volume of humorous and sympathetic sketches of animal life and home pets.
NEW EDITIONS
Anthony Hope. THE GOD IN THE CAR. By Anthony Hope, Author of 'A Change of Air,' etc. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
'This is, indeed, a very remarkable book, deserving of critical analysis impossible within our limits; brilliant, but not superficial; well considered, but not elaborated; constructed with the proverbial art that conceals, but yet allows itself to be enjoyed by readers to whom fine literary method is a keen pleasure; true without cynicism, subtle without affectation, humorous without strain, witty without offence, inevitably sad, with an unmorose simplicity.'—World.
'Immeasurably better than anything Mr. Hope has done before. A novel eminently worth reading, full of brilliance, fire, and daring.'—Manchester Guardian.
'Ruston is drawn with extraordinary skill, and Maggie Dennison with many subtle strokes. The minor characters are clear cut. In short the book is a brilliant one. "The God in the Car" is one of the most remarkable works in a year that has given us the handiwork of nearly all our best living novelists.'—Standard.
Baring Gould. KITTY ALONE. By S. Baring Gould, Author of 'Mehalah,' 'Cheap Jack Zita,' etc. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
'If any one wants—and in days when so much fiction is morbid and depressing it is to the credit of human nature to believe that many persons must want—a book brisk, clever, keen, healthy, humorous, and interesting, he can scarcely do better than order "Kitty Alone."'—National Observer.
Norris. MATTHEW AUSTIN. By W. E. Norris, Author of 'Mdle. de Mersac,' etc. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
'It would be a strangely unsympathetic and cynical person who could read the life-story of Matthew Austin, the singularly unselfish and gentle-natured country doctor, without affectionate sympathy.... "Matthew Austin" may safely be pronounced one of the most intellectually satisfactory and morally bracing novels of the current year.'—Daily Telegraph.
Mrs. Watson. THIS MAN'S DOMINION. By the Author of 'A High Little World.' Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
'It is not a book to be read and forgotten on a railway journey, but it is rather a study of the perplexing problems of life, to which the reflecting mind will frequently return, even though the reader does not accept the solutions which the author suggests. In these days, when the output of merely amusing novels is so overpowering, this is no slight praise. There is an underlying depth in the story which reminds one, in a lesser degree, of the profundity of George Eliot, and "This Man's Dominion" is by no means a novel to be thrust aside as exhausted at one perusal.'—Dundee Advertiser.
Richard Pryce. WINIFRED MOUNT. By Richard Pryce. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
The 'Sussex Daily News' called this book 'a delightful story,' and said that the writing was 'uniformly bright and graceful.' The 'Daily Telegraph' said that the author was a 'deft and elegant story-teller,' and that the book was 'an extremely clever story, utterly untainted by pessimism or vulgarity.'