This is a new story of Suffolk country life by an author who has made the peasant habits and dialect of the county her especial study.
Salted Almonds. By F. Anstey. 1 vol.-3897.
A collection of short stories and sketches of English life by one of the foremost humourists of the day.
Whispers about Women. By Leonard Merrick. 1 vol.-3898.
The unexpected is always welcome in fiction, and these new stories and sketches of Mr. Merrick’s are nearly all characterised by originality of dénouement.
The Compromise. By Dorothea Gerard. 2 v.-3899/900.
A love-story containing many dramatic situations, and trenchantly describing the life of a colony of Irish slate-quarrymen.
The Mayor of Troy. By “Q” (A. T. Quiller-Couch). 1 vol.-3901.
Mr. Quiller-Couch is always at his best when describing his native county of Cornwall. The present volume it a tragi-comedy, in which the “Mayor” alternately evokes our smiles and pity.
In Subjection. By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. 2 v.-3902/3.