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 By MRS. JOHN LANE THE CHAMPAGNE STANDARD. By Mrs. John Lane. Crown 8vo, 6s. Fourth Edition. Morning Post. — " The author's champagne overflows with witty sayings too numerous to cite." " AcacUmy. — "Mrs. Lane may congratulate herself on having that blessed sense of humour which is one of the most valuable possessions in life." Pall Mall Gazette. — "Mrs. Lane's papers on our social manners and foibles are the most entertaining, the kindest, and the truest that have been oSered us for a long time. . . The book shows an airy philosophy that will render it of service to the social student." Atkenccum. — "Mrs. Lane treats each subject with such freshness and originality that the work is as entertaining as it is suggestive." KITWYK. By Mrs. John Lane. With numerous Illustrations by Albert Sterner, Howard Pyle, and George Wharton Edwards. Crown 8vo. 6s. Times. — " Mrs. Lane has succeeded to admiration, and chiefly by reason of being so much interested in her theme herself that she makes no conscious effort to please. She just tells her tales with no more artifice than one might use in narrative by word of nouth, and she keeps the reader's interest as keenly alive as if he were really listening to an amusing story of what had once actually happened. Every one who seeks to be diverted will read " Kitwyk ' for its obvious qualities of entertainment." Daily Telegraph. — '' Dip where one will into her sparkling pages, one is certain to find entertainment, and the charm is much assisted by the delightful illustrations." World. — " ' Kitw3'k' is destined to be in fiction what an old Dutch master is in painting — a work at once typical of kind, unique of entity. The design of this charming book is original. All the people are alive in the not wonderful but strangely engrossing story, which is so comical and pathetic, so quaint and 'racy of the soil,' so wide in sympathy, so narrow of stage. All the drawings are excellent." Standard. — " Very charming. Admirers will say, not without reason, that ' Kitwyk ' recalls ' Cranford.' " PETERKINS: the Story of a Dog. Trans- lated from the German of Ossip Schubin by Mrs. John Lane. With numerous Drawings by Cottington Taylor. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. Bystander. — " A delicious story. . . full of genuine humour and chairacter." Daily Telegraph. — "Avery pleasing dog ... a most moving tale. . . Mrs. Lane has done the history of his ad^ entures into charming Euglish. . . not the least of the book's attractions are the delightful drawings oi Cottington Taylor." Saturday Review. — "Charmii^gly told. . . Mrs. Lane's excellent transla ion will, we are sure, have as great a success as its German original, and will delight all dog lovers."