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MOTTISCLIFFE: An Autumn Story.

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JAMES WALTER FERRIER.

2 vols, c^o^vn 8vo, 17s.

EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS

Morning' Advertiser.

'* * Mottiscliire ' is simply one of the most amusing books of the jiresent season, and one which no one will begin without pleasure or lay by without regret. . . . No more amusing companion for a tiresome journey or to while away sunny hours on the sea-shore could well be desired."

Scotsman.

" From the beauty of the style, the fresh piciuancy of the humour, the appreciation of the ludicrous, the power of giving reality to his characters and conversations, which we find in * Mottisclifie,' we feel certain that if Mr Fcrrier chooses, he has the career of a successful writer of fiction before him. . . . The story is of the simplest kind, and those who read it must look forward to finding its chief charm in its descriptions of character and its conyersations, now play- fully philosophical and now delightfully man-of-the-worldly."

London. " Clever, graceful, and charming."

Conrant.

" The reader is carried along very pleasantly, feeling a continued and increasing interest in the story till he closes the second volume with regret. . . . There are sufficient marks of ability, reading, and reality of purpose in it to enable us heartily to commend it to the attention of our readers."

Dundee Advertiser.

'* There is a fine vein of humour through all, and a rattling bonhomie in the writing, that shows it to be the production of one in whom animal spirit is strong. . . . It is a novel of promise. The author has real power."