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 New and Recent Books. THE AMAZON : An Art Novel. By CARL VOSMAER. With Preface by Professor GEORGE EBERS, and Frontispiece drawn specially by L. ALMATADEMA, R.A. Crown 8 vo., cloth o 6 &quot; It is a delineation of inner life by the hand of a master. It belongs to the school of Corinne, but is healthier and nobler, and in its the irght and style fully equal to Madame de istael s famous work. We do not wonder at the European recognition of its great merits.&quot; British Quarterly Review. &quot; Throughout the book there is a fine air of taste, reminding one a little of Longfellow s Hyperion. &quot; The World. &quot; It is a work full of deep, suggestive thought. M. Vosmaer, in writing it, has added another testimony to his artistic greatness and depth.&quot; The Academy. &quot;One meets with delicate and striking views about antique and modern art, about old Rome and Italy. Moreover, the plot is interesting. One cannot but feel interested in the persons. Their characters are drawn with great skill.&quot; Revue Suissc. GLADYS FANE: The Story of Two Lives. By T.WEMYSS REID. Fourth and popular edition. In i vol. Crown 8vo., cloth extra o 6 o &quot;A brilliant series of scenes and characters, sketched with wonderful vigour.&quot; Guardian. &quot; Gladys Fane&quot; is a good and clever book, which few readers who begin it are likely to put down unfinished, and which shows considerable powers of telling a story.&quot; Saturday Review. &quot;The author of the delightful monograph on Charlotte Bronte has given us in these volumes a story as beautiful as life and as sad as death. . . . We could not wear in our heart s core the man who could read aloud with unfaltering voice and nndimmed eyes the last pages of this prose story, which is almost a poem, and which Dallies with the innocence of love Like the old age. &quot; Standard. &quot; Mr.T.Wemyss Reid, the talented editor of the Leeds Mercury, has in Gladys Fane developed wonderful power as a writer of fiction. Gladys Fane is no ordinary tale; the conventionalities of the present-day novel writer are not observed, but Mr. Reid gives us what should be the aim of all who produce light literature, something novel. &quot; Guardian. &quot; She is thoroughly original ; her portrait is carefully finished ; and it may safely be said that if Mr. Reid has a few more char acters like this in reserve, his success as a novelist is assured. . . . It is a sound piece of work, and, above all, it is very enjoyable reading.&quot; Academy. &quot;The beautiful and terse descriptions of scenery which we find in this story themselves suggest a genuine poetic element in Mr Wemyss Reid. . . . We heartily welcome his success in this new field. &quot; Spectator.