“So many pretentious people write stupidly and ignorantly of fashionable life that it is a real pleasure to come across a novel by one who is thoroughly familiar with Society and all its little vanities. From this point of view ‘Sweetheart and Wife’ is a book which is likely to be in great demand at the circulating libraries for some time to come. It is a love story, told with charming simplicity and not a little power. Many of the descriptions are full of picturesque beauty, the dialogue is strikingly natural, and the plot is consistently and cleverly developed.”—_Society._ * TWO MEN AND A MAID. By HARRIETT JAY, Author of “The Queen of Connaught,” “Madge Dunraven,” “The Priest’s Blessing,” &c., &c., &c. “Compared with the former works of the authoress of ‘The Queen of Connaught’ this novel must be pronounced second to none.”—_Graphic._ “The gradual building up of the incidents preceding the wedding and the dim foreshadowing of catastrophe are managed with such skill as to produce the greatest excitement of expectation.”—_Sunday Times._ “Abounding in pathetic incidents and strongly dramatic situations.”—_North British Daily Mail._ PHYLLIDA. By FLORENCE MARRYAT, Author of “My Sister the Actress,” “A Broken Blossom,” &c., &c., &c. “This is one of the most fascinating and interesting novels we have met with for a long time.”—_Sunday Times._ “This is the best of Miss Marryat’s works; the plot is original and fantastic, full of spirit and vitality. ‘Phyllida’ is decidedly one of the best novels of the season.”—_Court Journal._ “‘Phyllida’ is a novel of which the author may justly be proud.”—_Morning Post._ “It is brightly written and thoroughly readable.”—_Lloyd’s._ “‘Phyllida’ has all the advantage which a very striking and dramatic opening can give it.”—_John Bull._ BARBARA’S WARNING. By MRS. HOUSTOUN, Author of “Recommended to Mercy,” “Lost in the Crowd,” &c., &c. SOME OF OUR GIRLS. By MRS. EILOART, Author of “The Dean’s Wife,” “How He Won Her,” &c., &c., &c. “... The book is well worth perusing.”—_John Bull._ “‘Some of Our Girls’ must be commended as a book with an unusually good purpose, and as quite interesting enough to deserve the attention of the others of ‘our girls’ to whom it appeals.”—_Globe._ “The freshness, the purity, the simplicity of style, the truth and the directness of purpose which always characterise Mrs. Eiloart’s novels make them very enjoyable reading; and in all these points ‘Some of Our Girls’ is fully up to the level of its predecessors ... and few who take up the book will lay it down without feeling that the author has contributed to their intellectual enjoyment.”—_Scotsman._ A PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY. By MRS. ALEXANDER FRASER, Author of “Guardian and Lover,” &c.