At the very first sentence the reader realizes that he is breathing a rarer air than usually emanates from the printed page, and at the very last sentence he realizes how he has kept on the heights. * * * Whatever the cause, the achievement is the sort that revives one's faith in that quality which, for want of a better word, we know as inspiration.—New York Sun.
The story is so delightful that to attempt to describe it seems to indicate a lack of appreciation. It must be read to be understood.—Hartford Post.
Pacific Tales
By LOUIS BECKE, author of "By Reef and Palm," etc. With frontispiece photogravure Portrait of the Author and several illustrations. Crown 8vo, green cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
The volume consists of the following: An Island Memory, The South Sea Savant, In the Old Beach-Combing Days, Miss Malleson's Rival, Prescott of Naura, Chester's "Cross," Hollis's Debt: a tale of the Northwest Pacific, The Arm of Luno Capal, In a Samoan Village, the "Black-Birdes," In the Evening, The Great Crushing at Mount Sugar-Bag: a Queensland Mining Tale, The Shadows of the Dead, "For we were Friends Always," Nikoa, The Strange White Woman of Maduro, The Obstinacy of Mrs. Tatton, The Treasure of Don Bruno.
Animal Episodes and Studies in Sensation
By G. H. POWELL. 8vo, cloth, $1.50 net.
The reader, if he be in sorrow, or even in suspense, is taken out of himself and knows nothing of what is going on save what the author tells him—James Payn, in "Illustrated London News."
Thrilling to the point of intensity—Westminster Gazette.
Breathlessly interesting—Pall Mall Gazette.