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 FROM JARROLD &■ SONS' LIST ., The Lion of danina. Mfth Edition. " It is a fascinating story . . . It is a brilliant and lurid series of pictures drawn by a great master's hand. Maurus J6kai . . . paints with a big brush, with a masculinity, an audacity of touch that rivals Rubens. He has imagination, he has vision, he has great style. To say more of him were here superfluous! to say less were stupid," — Daily Chronicle.

"A striking specimen of Oriental fiction. It is a stern, terrible drama that is unfolded leaf by leaf. The scenes are full of life and movement. The scene in which Ali is described as making his last stand is very fine indeed."—The World.

Pretty Michal. Fourth Edition. " It is part of the high art of the story that the author has kept the whole atmosphere free from the complexity, the subtle motives of a later and more sophisticated age. Maurus Jdkai's novel is a book to be read." — Saturday Review. "The most vivid and enthralling of J6kai's later novels."— Daily News. "Amidst all the palpitating excitement of the numerous and thrilling adventures that so plentifully adorn this fascinating novel, the reader is conscious of the immense intellectual strength by which the book is dominated, and his admiration is stirred by the force and fertility of imagination, the grasp of character and the fund of special knowledge displayed. It is not only talent, but a touch of actual genius, that animates the work of Maurus Jokai." — The Speaker. 'Midst tiie Wild Carpathians. Fourth Edition. " Will enthral all English lovers of romance, and gratify the natural curiosity now general concerning the work of the Hungarian novelist." — Saturday Review. " Much and well as J6kai has written, his pen has done nothing more vivid than some of these descriptions, and nothing more lurid than this grim story of intrigue, battle, and treachery " — The Academy. "It has power to engage and to thrill. The descriptive pieces are very fine. It is powerful, it is vigorous, and what is more than all, it is fresh." — The ^un. The White Kose. This beautiful and picturesque tale of Oriental life reads like a chapter out of the " Arabian Nights." The heroine of the present story is a beautiful young Greek girl, who escapes the gilded dis- honour of the harem by feigning death and enduring torments, while the hero, an honest Mussulman Turk of the lower orders, loves the damsel for her own sake, and unexpectedly attains world-wide fame in his efforts to shelter and defend her. The scene of the story is Stambul, in the eighteenth century, and every phase of life in the great metropolis of the Ottoman Empire is described with singular fidelity. The chapter on the Tulip Gardens of the Grand Seignier and their fatal influence on character, is, moreover, an exceedingly fine piece of grim humour in the master's best style. London: Jarrold and Sons, loand ii, Warwick Lane, E>C.