by W. W. Jacobs
GODFREY'S THE HARP OF LIFE 12mo. $1.50.
A very human account of certain events in the life of the first violinof the Pinecliff (England) orchestra.
_Boston Transcript_: "She has literary skill, grace, delicacy.... Here and there are bits of description sketched in with as much sympathy as truthfulness.... Her artistic sense is very keen. She doesn't introduce a description like this for the mere sake of describing: something, but for the purpose of contrast with a mood or situation, and she never spoils a perspective. Although she is writing a musical novel, she never rhapsodizes.... The characterization is effective throughout.... This masterly tale cannot want for readers, it seems to us."
_Public Opinion_: "Miss Godfrey writes understandingly of music and the musical temperament."
_Outlook_: "There are several characters of interest, and the somewhat unusual situations in which they are placed are handled in a clever and novel manner."
_N. Y. Herald_: "She draws human nature, delights in the opposition of character, and has, in fact, written a first-rate modern novel."
_Buffalo Commercial Advertiser_: "A thoroughly good, strong, pure story."
GODFREY'S POOR HUMAN NATURE
A musical novel. _2d Impression_, 12mo. $1.50.
The story of some Wagnerian singers at the Court Opera of Blankenstadt.It has been said that this name thinly veils Dresden, and that the bookgives an intimate picture of musical life at the Saxon capital.
_Bookman_: "It is curiously convincing. The characters, too are peculiarly real.... Each and every one stands out with vivid distinction, and is not soon to be forgotten.... The portrayal of local life, particularly that appertaining to operatic circles, is full of freshness and interest.... It is well written, it is nobly felt, it is altogether an admirable work."
_New York Tribune_: "One of the cleverest musical novels we know, and it is particularly creditable in that it holds nothing of the hysterical gush with which the feminine writer usually fills fiction of this kind.... The study of the group of singers at the Royal Opera in a minor German city is astonishingly well done, and so is the portrait of the great tenor's peasant wife ... so unmistakably true that she must have been drawn from life ... an uncommonly attractive and interesting novel."
_Boston Transcript_: "We have nothing but praise to say of this fine, strong tale, and can recommend it heartily and without qualification."
_Literary World_: "There is a distinctly original touch in this story.... Full of interest."
_21st Impression of a Remarkable Romance._
THE GADFLY.
By E. L. VOYNICH. 12mo, cloth. $1.25.
_New York Tribune_: "It is nothing more or less than one of the mostpowerful novels of the decade.... He shows us the veritable conspiratorof history, who plotted like a human being: and not like an operaticbandit.... It is a thrilling book and absolutely sober.... 'The Gadfly'is an original and impressive being; ... a story to remember."
_New York Times_: "Paradox worked up with intense dramatic effect is thesalient feature of 'The Gadfly'; ... shows a wonderfully strong hand,and descriptive powers which are rare; ... a very remarkable romance."
_The Dial_: "One of the most interesting phases of the history ofNineteenth Century Europe. The story of the Italian revolutionarymovement; ... is full of such incidents as the novelist most desires;... this novel is one of the strongest of the year, vivid in conception,and dramatic in execution, filled with intense human feeling, and workedup to a tremendously impressive climax."
_The Critic_: "An historical novel permeated with a deep religiousinterest in which from first to last the story is dominant andabsorbing.... 'The Gadfly' is a figure to live in the imagination."
_The New York Herald_: "An exceptionally clever story, eminently freshand original. The author has a capital story to tell, and he tells itconsummately well.... The beaten track has not allured him, and thecharacters to whom he introduces us are not such as we meet in every-daynovels. This is the crowning merit of this book."
_The Chap Book_: "Gives the reading public an opportunity to welcome anew and intense writer; ... a profound psychological study; ... apowerful climax. Yet, however much the imagination be used, the authorwill be found to rise beyond it; the scene at High Mass on the feast ofCorpus Christi being one of the most powerful in English fiction."
_The Independent_: "We have read this peculiar romance with breathlessinterest; ... a romance of revolutionary experiences in Italy; lifelike,stirring, picturesque, a story of passion, sacrifice, and tragicenergy."
_The Literary World_: "A powerful and picturesque story--a canvasglowing with color and life--the few striking characters stand out infirm, resolute outlines. We heartily commend 'The Gadfly.'"
_The Buffalo Commercial_: "In every way sharp, thrilling, entertaining."
_The Chicago Post_: "A powerful story, and, unlike others of its kind,holds the reader's attention strictly to the end."
_The Chicago Times-Herald_: "'The Gadfly' is a tremendous story. It goeson like a whirlwind, gathering force as it rushes."
BARROW'S THE FORTUNE OF WAR A novel of the last year of the AmericanRevolution. 12mo. $1.25.
The scene is laid mainly in New York City during the British occupation, partly on one of the prison ships, and partly in the patriot camp at Morristown. The life in the headquarters of the two armies is cleverly contrasted. The story has a strong "love interest."
_N. Y. Times Saturday Review_: "The story is a good one, the historical data accurate, and the ways and manners of the period are cleverly presented."
_The Outlook_: "Miss Elizabeth Barrow has done her work, not only well, but delightfully well."
_Chicago Times-Herald_: "Another tale of the time of Washington, but one that is more deserving both of popular and critical appreciation than some of the much-vaunted financial successes."
_Springfield Republican_: "It gives a good picture of New York City as it was in the eighteenth century.... The story is agreeable reading."
_Hartford Courant_: "She has done good work in her romance; ... it is told in a very attractive way.... The book is decidedly one that will entertain."
GODFREY'S THE HARP OF LIFE
Uniform with the author's "Poor Human Nature." 12mo. $1.50.
An intensely human story of an episode in the life of the first violin of an orchestra, at an English watering-place. Miss Godfrey has again been uncommonly happy in creating a "musical atmosphere."
LUCAS'S THE OPEN ROAD
A little book for wayfarers, bicycle-wise and otherwise. Compiled by E. V. LUCAS, editor of "A Book of Verses for Children." With illustrated cover-linings. Green and gold flexible covers. 12mo. $1.50.
Some 125 poems of out-door life and 25 prose passages, representing over 60 authors, including Fitzgerald, Shelley, Shakespeare, Kenneth Grahame, Stevenson, Whitman, Bliss Carman, Browning, William Watson, Alice Meynel, Keats, Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, William Morris, Maurice Hewlett, Izaak Walton, Wm. Barnes, Herrick, Gervase Markham, Dobson, Lamb, Milton, Whittier, etc.
"_Better than the 'Prisoner of Zenda.'_"--CRITIC
10th Impression of the Sequel to
"The Prisoner of Zenda"
HOPE'S RUPERT OF HENTZAU
From the memoirs of Fritz von Tarlenheim. With eight full-page illustrations by CHARLES DANA GIBSON, 12mo, $1.50.
_A. Dithmar in New York Times' Saturday Review_: "Delightfully stirring and irresponsible, ... a sequel ... for a wonder as vigorous and powerful as its original.... It seems to bring romance to life again."
_Life_: "A sequel to 'Zenda' which does not let down one bit the high standard of chivalrous love which was the charm of that romanc
e.... Mr. Hope's heroes are never dull.... These 'Zenda' stories have added a distinctly modern value to what men and women mean by the 'sense of honor.'... The closing chapters are simply written, elevated in sentiment, and an ideal solution of the fate of _Flavia_ and _Rudolf_."
_Geo. W. Smalloy in New York Herald_: "A story which lays a spell upon you. The animation is unceasing, and so, therefore, is the interest.... Mr. Hope has not lost his old deftness in dialogue.... The scene between the two men [Sapt and James] after the murder ... is a masterpiece."
_New York Tribune_: "Everything moves swiftly and naturally to the climax, upon which, we may add, Mr. Hope has wreaked himself with a tact that is perhaps the best thing in the book.... It is absorbing, and especially is it an excellent sequel, which is more than can be said of most books of its kind."
_Springfield Republican_: "It is a question whether it does not rival 'The Prisoner of Zenda' itself in excellence.... It strikes a stronger and deeper note."
_Brooklyn Eagle_: "Has the ring of genuine humanity and true romance."
_Chicago Tribune_: "Considered as a sequel, the book is surprisingly good. It retains the spirit of 'Zenda,' is fertile in invention, swift in movement, and is of a thrilling and absorbing nature."
6th Impression of the New Edition of
HOPE'S PRISONER OF ZENDA
With five full-page illustrations by CHARLES DANA GIBSON, and a view and plan of the castle by HOWARD INCE. 12mo, $1.50.
OTHER BOOKS BY ANTHONY HOPE
With frontispieces by RACKHAM, RUSSELL, and WECHSLER. 18mo, 75 cents each.
INDISCRETION OF THE DUCHESS, _12th Impression_. THE DOLLY DIALOGUES, _10th Impression_. A CHANGE OF AIR, _9th Impression_. A MAN OF MARK, _9th Impression_. SPORT ROYAL, ETC., _4th Impression_.
"Tense with sustained power." --_New York Commercial Advertiser_.
FOLLY CORNER
BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY
12mo. $1.25.
A novel of love against reason in conflict with love conformable toreason, worked out with all the power of the author's former novel, "TheMaternity of Harriot Wicken," but much more inviting in subject,characters, and treatment. A distinct advance on that able work and fullof promise for the future of this rising author. Scene, Sussex to-day.
_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser_: "It shows the same deep insight into thecomplications of the human soul [as did the author's earlier novel]....This story from the opening page is tense with sustained power and issurely destined to be one of the most important contributions to thisseason's fiction."
_N. Y. Mail and Express_: "These pictures have the true color, alivewith the activity of nature or soothing in its quietude. They form adistinct feature of the book, beautify its pages and make themnotable.... It has the elements in it of a wider popularity [than thatof the author's earlier novel], which it deserves in every sense."
_Buffalo Commercial_: "We find just the same originality in plot, skillin character depiction, and the effective presentation of events [whichcharacterized 'The Maternity of Harriot Wicken'].... In the story we seeso artistic a description of the play of character, the various phasesof human goodness and badness are so well drawn out, that the bookdeserves high praise.... The description of the life of Folly Corner,and the men and women seen there, is not surpassed by any work of anycontemporary novelist. The book is a notable one every way."
_The Academy, London_: "Really interesting; ... the writing is generallyvigorous and even brilliant. The comedy is first rate.... It is in facta successful novel."
"One of the most captivating works of fiction that it has been our goodfortune to read."--_Dial_.
GOD'S PRISONER
By JOHN OXENHAM. 12mo, $1.25.
A story of adventure in England and the Southern Seas.
_Dial_: "A series of the most romantic and startling experiences. Theauthor's invention is unflaggingly brilliant, and his narrative mannerboth direct and forcible.... The reader bent upon excitement alone, andthe reader who delights in the better qualities of romance--in literaryform and psychological portrayal--will alike find their account in abook which we counsel them not to miss."
_Book Buyer_: "It is not likely that any story bristles more withingenious surprises.... If the reader should leave off in the middle,there is no doubt that he would be sorely perplexed; but it is safe tosay that he will never have the fortitude to leave off in the middle."
_New York Commercial Advertiser_: "A very intense sort of book.... Manythrilling scenes and strong delineations of emotion."
_New York Times_: "A romance of adventure carried out to its ultimatedegree."
_New York Tribune_: "By a daring abuse of coincidence the climax is madepositively amazing.... The tale of his wanderings is well invented anddiverting.... 'God's Prisoner' is unnatural in its tone, but it is notdull."
_New York Herald_: "Very entertaining reading."
_Literary World_: "So much of the interest depends on the surprises inthe plot, that we will not even give an outline of the story, but onlysay that it holds several absorbing situations."
_Public Opinion_: "A good story.... The mystery and agony preceding thediscovery is drawn in just the right shades. There was danger ofoverdoing it, but the author was not to be entrapped.... There aresurprises to the end."
_Chicago Times-Herald_: "There is such power of analysis, ofdescription, and of imagination, that one feels sure that he has to dealhere with the ebullition of an uncommon mind."
_Saturday Review_ (London): "He tells his tale in so brisk and plausiblea fashion that belief comes easily."
_Graphic_ (London): "Has stronger motive for a novel of romantic andsensational adventure than is at all usual, and to the very greatadvantage of an otherwise exciting and well-constructed story."
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