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 Messrs Methuen's List 25

MRS. FALCHION. Third Edition.

' A splendid study of character.' — AtheniEunt.


 * But little behind anything that has been done by any writer of our time.' — Pall

Mall Gazette. 'A very striking and admirable novel.' — St. James's Gazette.

THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE.

'The plot is original and one difficult to work out ; but Mr. Parker has done it with great skill and delicacy. The reader who is not interested in this original, fresh, and well-told tale must be a dull person indeed.' — Daily Chronicle.

' A strong and successful piece of workmanship. The portrait of Lali, strong, dignified, and pure, is exceptionally well drawn. ' — Manchester Guardian.

THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD. Fourik Edition.

' Everj'body with a soul for romance will thoroughly enjoy "The Trail of the Sword." ' — St. James's Gazette.

' A rousing and dramatic tale. A book like this, in which swords flash, great sur- prises are undertaken, and daring deeds done, in which men and women live and love in the old straightforward passionate way, is a joy inexpressible to the re- viewer, brain-weary of the domestic tragedies and psychological puzzles of every- day fiction ; and we cannot but believe that to the reader it will bring refreshment as welcome and as keen.' — Daily Chronicle.

WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC : The Story of

a Lost Napoleon. Third Edition.

' Here we find romance — real, breathing, living romance, but it runs flush with our own times, level with our own feelings. Not here can we complain of lack of inevitableness or homogeneity. The character of Valmond is drawn unerringly ; his career, brief as it is, is placed before us as convincingly as history itself. The book must be read, we may say re-read, for any one thoroughly to appreciate Mr. Parker's delicate touch and innate sympathy with humanity.' — Pall Mall Gazette. 'The one work of genius which 1895 has as yet produced.' — New Age.

AN ADVENTURER OF THE NORTH: The Last Adven- tures of ' Pretty Pierre.'

'The present book is full of fine and moving stories of the great North, and it will add to Mr. Parker's already high reputation.' — Glasgow Herald.

' The new book is very romantic and very entertaining — full of that peculiarly elegant spirit of adventure which is so characteristic of Mr. Parker, and of that poetic thrill which has given him warmer, if less numerous, admirers than even his romantic story-telling gift has done.' — Si-etch.

THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY. Illustrated. Fourth Edition.

' The best thing he has done ; one of the best things that any one has done lately.' — St. James's Gazette.

' Mr. Parker seems to become stronger and easier with every serious novel that he attempts. . . . In " The Seats of the Mighty " he shows the matured power which his former novels have led us to expect, and has produced a really fine historical novel. . . . The great creation of the book is Doltaire. . . . His character is drawn with quite masterly strokes, for he is a villain who is not altogether a villain, and who attracts the reader, as he did the other characters, by the extraordinary brilliance of his gifts, and by the almost unconscious acts of nobility which he performs. . . . Klost sincerely is Mr. Parker to be congratulated on the finest novel he has yet written.' — Athenaum.