_HEINEMANN'S 2s NET NOVELS_
THE SHUTTLE
By MRS. HODGSON BURNETT
Author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "The Secret Garden," etc.
"Takes its place at once and without dispute among the greater permanentworks of fiction. Breadth and sanity of outlook, absolute mastery ofhuman character and life, bigness of story interest, place Mrs. HodgsonBurnett's new book alongside the best work of George Eliot.... Thedignity and strength of a great novel such as this put to the blush allbut a very few living English storytellers."--PALL MALL GAZETTE.
"A remarkable novel, for it is written with a sincerity and glow andpower which bear the reader restlessly along the strange current ofevents that the writer sets herself to describe."--STANDARD.
"Mrs. Burnett has the gift of a narrator to a high degree, and in spiteof its faults, her latest novel makes a highly readable story."--DAILYMAIL.
"A novel of the highest rank."--DAILY GRAPHIC.
Mrs. Burnett is a past-master in drawing her own countrywomen, and Bettyis a dazzling vision of youthful charm combined with business-likecompetence."--THE QUEEN.
"The story is rich and spacious; it illustrates human nature, bothBritish and American, in a simple and massive way, and paints both inthe primary colours."--WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.
BELLA DONNA
By ROBERT HICHENS
Author of "The Londoners," "Flames," "An Imaginative Man," etc.
This is the excellent novel on which the excellent play of the sametitle is founded. It is a book full of weird, haunting scenes of passionin the desert, full of the strange sinister fatalism of Eastern minds.
"This is one of the best novels that we have ever read, and quite thebest that Mr. Robert Hichens has written. It combines the two elementsof which every good novel ought to be composed, subtle analysis ofcharacter and an exciting plot.... We will not spoil the reading of thisbook by sketching the thrilling plot, which is enacted on the Nile andits banks. Needless to say, the Egyptian scenery and servants aredescribed by Mr. Hichens with affectionate familiarity."--SATURDAYREVIEW.
"It is admirable drama. It lives with a present life, and moves swiftly.Some of the situations are intensely thrilling; the dialogue is firm andeasy; the whole treatment forcible without theatricalism.... Ourattention is fixed at the start, and kept to the end, on a duel betweenIsaacson and Bella Donna. It is magnificent ... there can be no denyingit is a very fine novel."--THE EVENING STANDARD AND ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.
"It is particularly interesting; its characters are drawn withparticular care and splendid skill.... 'Bella Donna' is a fine study ofa woman of passion; remorseless in its truth, fascinating in itsunmasking of the hidden springs of selfish desire."--THE GLOBE.
THE BOOK OF A BACHELOR
By DUNCAN SCHWANN
Author of "The Magic of the Hill"
Mr. Duncan Schwann has recently been acclaimed as one of the four greathumourists in England at the present time. This "Book of a Bachelor" isdelightful reading of a light kind, but it carries weight also, for Mr.Schwann has picked out the little feeblenesses and frailty of this worldas a background to his airy frivolity.
"A picturesque romance of modern life is this story by DuncanSchwann.... There is, indeed, a good deal of cleverness in thebook."--WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.
"... Is decidedly entertaining. Mr. Schwann is an admirable journalistwho has already given proof of his power, but he has done nothing sogood as this ... which is intelligent, humorous, and on the side of theangels."--BRITISH WEEKLY.
"There is knowledge of the world and some mild philosophy to be found inthis pleasant romance of modern life."--GLOBE.
A SHIP OF SOLACE
By ELEANOR MORDAUNT
Author of "The Garden of Contentment"
"The Garden of Contentment," those charming letters to Mr. Nobody, hasnever ceased to sell from the moment it was published. The same may besaid of "A Ship of Solace," which is filled with the breath of the sea,and the pleasing state of mind of complete idleness. It is a book forquiet hours, to which one can turn with pleasurable anticipation ofrepose and refreshment.
"Readers who like the scent of real sea air will revel in this trulydelightful book."--DAILY TELEGRAPH.
THE GIFT OF THE GODS
By FLORA ANNIE STEEL
Author of "On the Face of the Waters," "The Potter's Thumb," "From theFive Rivers," etc. etc.
"She has that gift, rare now among novelists, of being interested, firstof all, in the story she has to tell. She is herself so stronglyinterested that her readers are carried along with her and share in hervitality and freshness."--STANDARD.
"Mrs. Steel gives us one admirably dramatic scene,--the death of an oldwoman from shock at a sudden disillusion while on her way to theCommunion Table.... The squalid and starveling lot of crofters living onbarren soil in or towards the last decade of the 19th century is welldepicted."--ATHENAEUM.
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