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J. H. Findlater. THE GREEN GRAVES OF BALGOWRIE. By Jane PI, FiNDLATER. Third Edition. CrcnvtiZvo. 6s.

'A powerful and vivid sXOTy. '—Standard.

' A beautiful story, sad and strange as truth itself.' — Vanity Fair.

' A work of remarkable interest and originality." — National Observer.

' A really original novel.' — Journal cf Education.

'A very charming and pathetic tale.' — Pail Mall Gazette.

' A singularly original, clever, and beautiful story.' — Guardian.

' " The Green Graves of Balgowrie " reveals to us a new Scotch writer of undoubted

faculty and reserve force.' — Spectator. ' An exquisite idyll, delicate, affecting, and beautiful.' — Black and White. ' Permeated with high and noble purpose. It is one of the most wholesome stories

we have met with, and cannot fail to leave a deep and lasting impression.' —

JVe^vsa^ent.

E. F. Benson. DODO : A DETAIL OF THE DAY. By E. F.

Benson. Sixteenth Edition. Cro^vn 8vo. 6s. ' A delightfully witty sketch of society.' — Spectator. ' A perpetual feast of epigram and paradox.' — Speaker. ' By a writer of quite exceptional ability.' — Athenceum. ' Brilliantly written.' — World.

E. F. Benson. THE RUBICON. By E. F. Benson, Author of

' Dodo.' Fifth Edition. Crown 2>vo. 6s. ' Well written, stimulating, unconventional, and, in a word, characteristic' —

Birnti'ighant Post, ' An exceptional achievement ; a notable advance on his previous work." — National

Observer.

M. M. Dowie. GALLIA. By Mitt:NiE Muriel Dowie, Author of 'A Girl in the Carpathians.' Third Edition. Crown 2>vo. 6s.

'The style is generally admirable, the dialogue not seldom brilliant, the situations surprising in their freshness and originality, while the subsidiary as well as the principal characters live and move, and the story itself is readable from title-page to colophon.' — Saturday Review.

' A very notable book ; a very sympathetically, at times delightfully written book. — Daily Graphic,

Mrs, Oliphant. SIR ROBERT'S FORTUNE. By Mrs. Oliphant. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'Full of her own peculiar charm of style and simple, subtle character-painting comes her new gift, the delightful story before us. The scene mostly lies in the moors, and at the touch of the authoress a Scotch moor becomes a living thing, strong, tender, beautiful, and changeful.' — Pall Mall Gazette.

Idrs. Oliphant. THE TWO MARYS. By Mrs. Oliphant. Second Edition. Crown Svo. 6s.

W.E.Norris. MATTHEW AUSTIN. By W. E. Norris, Author of ' Mademoisdle de Mersac,' etc. Eoitrlh Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. ' "Matthew Austii ' may safely be pronounced one of the most intellectually satis- factory and morilly bracing novels of the current year.' — Daily Telegraph.

W. E. Norris. HIS GRACE. By W. E. Norris. T/iini

Edition. Crown %vo. 6s. ' Mr. Norris has drawn a really fine character in the Duke of Hurstbourne, at once unconventional and very true to the conventionalities of life, weak and strong in a breath, capable of inane follies and heroic decisions, yet not so definitely por- trayed as to relieve a reader of the necessity of study.' — Athenavni.