by RACHEL HAYWARD 6/-
Illustrated by CLARA WATERS.
A brightly coloured story, the scene of which is laid in Barcelona. A young Irish girl who is dependent on herself for a means of subsistence becomes a “star” turn at a circus. While in the back-waters of that existence she falls in with certain gentlemen of international importance. She becomes their dupe and slave and passes through many adventures. But there is a way of escape and she takes it. Decidedly a book of swift movement and keen excitement.
THE NOVELS OF LEO TOLSTOY
Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT
[ANNA KARENINA] 2/6 net
WAR AND PEACE 3/6 net
“Mrs. Garnett’s translations from the Russian are always distinguished by most careful accuracy and a fine literary flavour. In this new rendering of Tolstoy she has surpassed herself.”—The Bookman.
“Mrs. Garnett’s translation has all the ease and vigour which Matthew Arnold found in French versions of Russian novels and missed in English. She is indeed so successful that, but for the names, one might easily forget he was reading a foreign author.”—The Contemporary Review.