(of which over 3 million copies have been sold).

“These volumes are in every way a pleasure to read. Of living authors, Mr. Hall Caine must certainly sway as multitudinous a following as any living man. A novel from his pen has become indeed for England and America something of an international event.”—Times.

Author of

[THE BONDMAN] [CAPT’N DAVY’S HONEYMOON] MY STORY [THE WHITE PROPHET] [THE ETERNAL CITY] [THE MANXMAN] THE PRODIGAL SON [THE SCAPEGOAT] [THE CHRISTIAN]

A PORTENTOUS HISTORY

by ALFRED TENNYSON 6/-

“With considerable skill we are shown how ignorant and conventional prejudice of all the normal inhabitants of the village are roused against the poor, good giant, only because he is greater than they are. Mr. Tennyson gives a vivid and unpleasant picture of prejudice and instinctive cruelty. In Mr. Tennyson we have a new novelist with something real and weighty to say.”—Westminster Gazette.

THE MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN KETTLE