The adventures of Sir Roland de Massinger and Hypatia his wife, insomuch as regards peril and uncertainty of war or peace, travel by land and sea, or even the stormy politics of a new nation, must be said now to have lost much of their interest. Henceforth Sir Roland was contented to pursue the ordinary course of the country gentleman of England, which, if not exciting or adventurous, is surely one of the happiest lives in the world. He was contented to manage his New Zealand property through an agent. Indeed, after Mr. Slyde's appearance in England—that gentleman having received a year's leave of absence, on account of his wound and eminent services in the war—he was pleased to place the whole management of Waikato Court and Chase, near the flourishing township of Chesterfield, in his hands. Mr. Slyde was about to relinquish his connection with the New Zealand Land Company, having, as he said with his customary cynicism, been fool enough to encumber himself with a picturesque and fertile block of land, on the same river, and also to commit the crowning folly of matrimony with a young lady to whom he had become engaged just after the war. New Zealand was bad enough, he averred, but for a man who had been born without the proverbial silver spoon, England was the worst country in the civilized world. Therefore, if his comrade, Sir Roland, had sufficient faith in his intelligence and honesty—rather rare endowments in a colony—he supposed he could manage both properties with much the same outlay of cash and industry as his own.

The arrangement was completed, and worked so satisfactorily, that for many a year Sir Roland had no duties connected with the antipodean estates beyond supervising the sale of wool, frozen mutton, butter, cheese, cocksfoot grass seed, and other annual products, which so excited the admiration of his neighbours and tenants that they could hardly be made to believe that such satisfactory samples could be produced out of England, his frozen lamb, equal to "prime Canterbury," notwithstanding.

Hypatia is truly happy in her home—blessed with a growing family, contented with her duties as the wife of a county member, and, above all, firmly convinced that Roland was the only man she had ever loved. She is almost convinced, as her outspoken friend Mrs. Merivale (née Branksome) often assured her, that it served her right for her absurdly altruistic notions and general perversity that she so nearly lost him. The days are only too short for her employments and enjoyments. Nor did she abandon the philanthropical obligation, but as the kindly, generous, and capable Lady Bountiful of the estate, is "earthlier happy as the rose distilled" than in any imaginable state of "single blessedness," however advanced and politically eminent.

THE END

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ONE OF THE GRENVILLES

By SYDNEY ROYSE LYSAGHT

AUTHOR OF "THE MARPLOT"

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Forty-third Thousand

THE DAY'S WORK

By RUDYARD KIPLING

CONTENTS

The Bridgebuilders—A Walking Delegate—The Ship that Found Herself—The Tomb of his Ancestors—-The Devil and the Deep Sea—William the Conqueror—007—The Maltese Cat—Bread upon the Waters—An Error of the Fourth Dimension—My Sunday at Home—The Brushwood Boy

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A DRAMA IN SUNSHINE

By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL

CONTENTS

The Prologue
Chapter I. —Sausages and Palaver
      " II. —Illumination
      " III. —William Chillingworth
      " IV. —Calamity Cañon
      " V. —Speculations
      " VI. —Which contains a Moral
      " VII. —Of Blood and Water
      " VIII. —Which ends in Flames
      " IX. —"Is Writ in Moods and Frowns
          and Wrinkles Strange"
      " X. —The Daughters of Themis

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DAILY MAIL.—"Full of spirit as well as of all-round literary excellence.... The scenes are vivid, the passions are strong, the persons who move in the pages have life and warmth, and the interest they arouse is often acutely eager. The book grips."

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"A particularly clever and readable story."

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BEING A MEMOIR OF

CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO

By EGERTON CASTLE

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LIVERPOOL DAILY MERCURY.—"The book is written in a strong and terse style of diction with a swift and vivid descriptive touch. In its grasp of character and the dramatic nature of its plot it is one of the best novels of its kind since Stevenson's Prince Otto."

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STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY

BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES
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By FRANK R. STOCKTON

AUTHOR OF "RUDDER GRANGE"

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

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THE

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By CECIL LOWIS

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BISMILLAH

By A. J. DAWSON

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A romantic story of Moorish life in the Rift Country and in Tangier by Mr. A. J. Dawson, whose last novel, God's Foundling, was well received in the beginning of the year, and whose West African and Australian Bush stories will be familiar to most readers of fiction. Bismillah is the title chosen for Mr. Dawson's new book, which may be regarded as the outcome of his somewhat adventurous experiences in Morocco last year.

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DUNDEE ADVERTISER.—"Mr. Dawson has caught the spirit of the country, and his romance has the Moorish glamour about it delicious as a memory of Tangiers in sunset."

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By MAARTEN MAARTENS

AUTHOR OF "MY LADY NOBODY," ETC.

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TRUTH.—"Mr. Maarten Maartens' latest and, perhaps, finest novel."

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THE ADVENTURES OF
FRANCOIS

Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing Master during
the French Revolution

By S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D.

AUTHOR OF "HUGH WYNNE," ETC.

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"It is delightfully entertaining throughout, and throws much instructive light upon certain subordinate phases of the great popular upheaval that convulsed France between 1788 and 1794.... Recounted with unflagging vivacity and inexhaustible good humour."

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GLASGOW DAILY MAIL.—"It is altogether a most entertaining narrative, witty and humorous in its dialogue, exciting in its incidents, and not without its pathetic side."

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ELIZABETH AND HER
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LITERATURE.—"A charming book.... If the delightful wilderness which eventually develops into a garden occupies the foreground, there is still room for much else—for children, husbands, guests, gardeners, and governesses, all of which are treated in a very entertaining manner."

TIMES.—"A very bright little book—genial, humorous, perhaps a little fantastic and wayward here and there, but full of bright glimpses of nature and sprightly criticisms of life. Elizabeth is the English wife of a German husband, who finds and makes for herself a delightful retreat from the banalities of life in a German provincial town by occupying and beautifying a deserted convent."

SCOTSMAN.—"The garden in question is somewhere in Germany.... Its owner found it a wilderness, has made it a paradise, and tells the reader how. The book is charmingly written.... The people that appear in it are almost as interesting as the flowers.... Altogether it is a delightful book, of a quiet but strong interest, which no one who loves plants and flowers ought to miss reading."

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THE LOVES

OF THE

LADY ARABELLA

By M. E. SEAWELL

SPEAKER.—"A story told with so much spirit that the reader tingles with suspense until the end is reached.... A very pleasant tale of more than common merit."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"It is short and excellent reading.... Old Peter Hawkshaw, the Admiral, is a valuable creation, sometimes quite 'My Uncle Toby'.... The scene, when the narrator dines with him in the cabin for the first time, is one of the most humorous in the language, and stamps Lady Hawkshaw—albeit, she is not there—as one of the wives of fiction in the category of Mrs. Proudie herself.... The interest is thoroughly sustained to the end.... Thoroughly healthy and amusing."

WORLD.—"Brisk and amusing throughout."

SATURDAY REVIEW.—"A spirited romance.... It is the brightest tale of the kind that we have read for a long time."

DAILY MAIL.—"A robust and engaging eighteenth century romance."

SCOTSMAN.—"The story possesses all the elements of a good-going love romance, in which the wooing is not confined to the sterner sex; while its flavour of the sea will secure it favour in novel-reading quarters where anything approaching sentimentality or sermonizing does not meet with much appreciation."

MORNING POST.—"There is a spirit and evident enjoyment in the telling of the story which is refreshing."

ACADEMY.—"A brisk story of old naval days."

SPECTATOR.—"Pleasant reading is furnished in The Loves of the Lady Arabella."

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A

ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN

AND OTHER STORIES

By ROLF BOLDREWOOD

CONTENTS

A Romance of Canvas Town

The Fencing of Wandaroona: A Riverina Reminiscence

The Governess of the Poets

Our New Cook: A Tale of the Times

Angels Unawares

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Eminently readable, being written in the breezy, happy-go-lucky style which characterizes the more recent fictional works of the author of that singularly earnest and impressive romance, Robbery under Arms."

DAILY MAIL.—"As pleasant as ever."

GLASGOW HERALD.—"They will repay perusal."

SCOTSMAN.—"A volume of five short stories by Mr. Rolf Boldrewood is heartily welcome.... All are about Australia, and all are excellent.... His shorter stories will enhance his popularity."

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THAT LITTLE CUTTY

DR. BARRÈRE, ISABEL DYSART

By MRS. OLIPHANT

AUTHOR OF "THE CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD," ETC., ETC.

SATURDAY REVIEW.—"It has all her tenderness and homely humour, and in the case of all three stories there is a good idea well worked out."

LITERATURE.—"To come across a work of Mrs. Oliphant's is to come across a pleasant, little green oasis in the arid desert of minor novels.... In these the author's refinement, tenderness, and charm of manner are as well exemplified as in any of her earlier works.... The book is one that we can most cordially recommend."

DAILY NEWS.—"Each story that comes to us from the hand of Mrs. Oliphant moves us to admiration for its delicate craftsmanship, the keen appreciation it displays of the resources of situation and character. The posthumous volume, 'That Little Cutty, and other Stories,' is an excellent example of Mrs. Oliphant's power of telling a story swiftly and with dramatic insight. Every touch tells.... The little volume is worthy of its author's high and well-deserved reputation."

DAILY CHRONICLE.—"All three are admirably written in that easy, simple narrative style to which the author had so thoroughly accustomed us. It will be for many of Mrs. Oliphant's friends a wholly unexpected pleasure to have a new volume of fiction with her name on the title-page."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"They are models of what such stories should be."

SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Excellent examples of Mrs. Oliphant's work."

SCOTSMAN.—"All three stories have a fine literary flavour and an artistic finish, and within their limited scope present some subtle analyses of character."

NORTHERN WHIG.—"Anything from the pen of the late Mrs. Oliphant will always be welcome to a large number of readers, who will therefore note with pleasant interest the publication by Messrs. Macmillan of a neat volume containing three tales, 'That Little Cutty,' 'Dr. Barrère,' and 'Isabel Dysart.' Of the three, although all are most readable, the most skilfully constructed is the second named, the plot and climax of which are decidedly dramatic. The last story deals with the still unforgotten period of the horrible Burke and Hare revelations in Edinburgh."

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THE FOREST LOVERS

A ROMANCE

By MAURICE HEWLETT

SPECTATOR.—"The Forest Lovers is no mere literary tour de force, but an uncommonly attractive romance, the charm of which is greatly enhanced by the author's excellent style."

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Mr. Maurice Hewlett's Forest Lovers stands out with conspicuous success.... He has compassed a very remarkable achievement.... For nearly four hundred pages he carries us along with him with unfailing resource and artistic skill, while he unrolls for us the course of thrilling adventures, ending, after many tribulations, in that ideal happiness towards which every romancer ought to wend his tortuous way.... There are few books of this season which achieve their aim so simply and whole-heartedly as Mr. Hewlett's ingenious and enthralling romance."

WORLD.—"If there are any romance-lovers left in this matter-of-fact end of the century, The Forest Lovers, by Mr. Maurice Hewlett, should receive a cordial welcome. It is one of those charming books which, instead of analyzing the morbid emotions of which we are all too weary, opens a door out of this workaday world and lets us escape into fresh air. A very fresh and breezy air it is which blows in Mr. Hewlett's forest, and vigorous are the deeds enacted there.... There is throughout the book that deeper and less easily defined charm which lifts true romance above mere story-telling—a genuine touch of poetic feeling which beautifies the whole."

DAILY MAIL.—"It is all very quaintly and pleasingly done, with plenty of mad work, and blood-spilling, and surprising adventure."

James Lane Allen, Author of The Choir Invisible, writes of The Forest Lovers: "This work, for any one of several solid reasons, must be regarded as of very unusual interest. In the matter of style alone, it is an achievement, an extraordinary achievement. Such a piece of English prose, saturated and racy with idiom, compact and warm throughout as living human tissues, well deserves to be set apart for grateful study and express appreciation.... In the matter of interpreting nature there are passages in this book that I have never seen surpassed in prose fiction."

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THE

GOSPEL OF FREEDOM

By ROBERT HERRICK

AUTHOR OF "THE MAN WHO WINS," "LITERARY LOVE LETTERS, AND OTHER STORIES"

DAILY MAIL.—"Distinctly enjoyable and suggestive of much profitable thought."

SCOTSMAN.—"The book has a deal of literary merit, and is well furnished with clever phrases."

ATHENÆUM.—"Remarkably clever.... The writing throughout is clear, and the story is well constructed."

W. D. Howells in LITERATURE.—"A very clever new novel."

GUARDIAN.—"The novel is well written, and full of complex interests and personalities. It touches on many questions and problems clearly and skilfully."

DAILY CHRONICLE.—"A book which entirely interested us for the whole of a blazing afternoon. He writes uncommonly well."

BOOKMAN.—"The excellence of Mr. Herrick's book lies not in the solution of any problem, nor in the promulgation of any theory, nor indeed in any form of docketing and setting apart of would-be final answers to the enigmas of existence. He simply tells a story and leaves us to draw what conclusion we like. The admirable thing is that his story is a particularly interesting one, and that he tells it remarkably well.... There are some delightful minor characters."

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"The characters, all American, have originality and life. The self-engrossed Adela is so cleverly drawn that we are hardly ever out of sympathy with her aspirations, and Molly Parker, the 'womanly' foil, is delightful."