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THE MODERN FICTION LIBRARY—Continued The Wheels of Chance By H. G. WELLS

"Mr. Wells is beyond question the most plausible romancer of the time. ... He unfolds a breathlessly interesting story of battle and adventure, but all the time he is thinking of what our vaunted strides in mechanical invention may come to mean. . . . Again and again the story, absorbing as it is, brings the reader to a reflective pause." ...—The New York Tribune.

The Common Lot By ROBERT HERRICK

A story of present-day life, intensely real in its picture of a young architect whose ideals in the beginning were, at their highest, æsthetic rather than spiritual. He has been warped and twisted by sordid commercial strife until "the spirit of greed has eaten him through and through." Then comes the revelation of himself,—in a disaster due in part to his own connivance in "graft,"—and his gradual regeneration. The influence of his wife's standards on his own and on their family life is finely brought out. It is an unusual novel of great interest.

Mr. Ingleside By E. V. LUCAS

Mr. E. V. Lucas early achieved enviable fame and became well known as the clever author of delightful books of travel, and charming anthologies of prose and verse.

When "Over Bemerton's," his first novel, was published, his versatility and charm as a writer of fiction stood fully revealed. He displayed himself as an intellectual and amusing observer of life's foibles with a hero characterized, says the Independent, by "inimitable kindness and humor."

In "Mr. Ingleside" he has again written a story of high excellence, individual and entertaining. With its quiet calm reflection, its humorous interpretation of life and its delightful situations and scenes it reminds one of the literary excursions and charms of the leaders of the early Victorian era. 6