Mr. E.V. Lucas has had the happy idea of making a collection of new material by living English authors which shall represent the literature of our time at its best. Among the contributors are Sir James Barrie, who writes in the character of an Eton boy; Mr. Arnold Bennett, with a series of notes and impressions; Mr. Austin Dobson, with a characteristic poem; F. Anstey, with a short story; Mr. John Galsworthy, with a fanciful sketch; Mr. Maurice Hewlett, with a light poem; Mr. Hugh Walpole, with a cathedral town comedy; "Saki," with a caustic satire on the discursive drama; Mr. Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humorist, with a burlesque novel; Mr. Lucas himself, and Mr. Ernest Bramah, the author of _The Wallet of Kai Lung_, with one of his gravely comic Chinese tales. Mr. Lucas, furthermore, has had placed at his disposal some new and extremely interesting letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, John Ruskin and Robert Browning, which are now made public for the first time. * * * * * THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York OTHER BOOKS BY MR. LUCAS *London Lavender* _Decorated Cloth, 12mo. $1.35 net._ Mr. Lucas has given us a particularly beautiful story in "London Lavender." We meet again several of the fine characters with whom Mr. Lucas has already made us acquainted in his other novels, as well as others equally interesting and entertaining. The intimate sketches of various phases of London life--visits to the Derby, Zoo, the National Gallery--are delightfully chronicled and woven into a novel that is a charming entertainment. *The Loiterer's Harvest* _Illustrated. 12mo. $1.25 net._ *Harvest Home* _12mo. $1.00 net._ *A Little of Everything* _12mo. $1.25 net._ Seldom has one author to his credit so many sought-after travel books, delightful anthologies, stirring juveniles, and popular novels. In the novel as in the essay and in that other literary form, if one may call it such, the anthology, Mr. Lucas has developed a mode and style all his own. The above volumes of essays contain much of Mr. Lucas' charming character delineation; in their amusing discursiveness, their recurrent humor, and their quiet undertones of pathos, the reader will catch many delightful glimpses of Mr. Lucas' originality and distinctiveness. * * * * * PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York THE LUCAS WANDERER BOOKS *A Wanderer in Florence* Colored illustrations and reproductions of the great works of art.