"The writer who goes by the name of Mark Rutherford is not the most popular novelist of his time by any means. There are writers with names which that recluse genius has never heard of, probably, whose stories give palpitations to thousands of gentle souls, while his own are quietly read by no more than as many hundreds. Yet his publisher never announces a new story by the Author of 'Mark Rutherford's Autobiography,' and 'The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,'--which we believe to be one of the most remarkable bits of writing that these times can boast of--without strongly exciting the interest of many who know books as precious stones are known in Hatton Garden.... 'Clara Hopgood' is entirely out of the way of all existing schools of novel-writing.... Had we to select a good illustration of 'Mark's way' as distinguished from the way of modern storytellers in general, we should point to the chapter in which Baruch visits his son Benjamin in this narration. Nothing could be more simple, nothing more perfect."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ A FIRST FLEET FAMILY: BEING A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED NARRATIVE OF CERTAIN REMARKABLE ADVENTURES COMPILED FROM THE PAPERS OF SERGEANT WILLIAM DEW, OF THE MARINES BY LOUIS BECKE and WALTER JEFFERY _Second Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s. "As convincingly real and vivid as a narrative can be."--_Sketch._ "No maker of plots could work out a better story of its kind, nor balance it more neatly."--_Daily Chronicle._ "A book which describes a set of characters varied and so attractive as the more prominent figures in this romance, and a book so full of life, vicissitude, and peril, should be welcomed by every discreet novel reader."--_Yorkshire Post._ "A very interesting tale, written in clear and vigorous English."--_Globe._ "The novel is a happy blend of truth and fiction, with a purpose that will be appreciated by many readers; it has also the most exciting elements of the tale of adventure."--_Morning Post._ THE TALES OF JOHN OLIVER HOBBES With a Frontispiece Portrait of the Author _Second Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s. "The cleverness of them all is extraordinary."--_Guardian._ "The volume proves how little and how great a thing it is to write a 'Pseudonym.' Four whole 'Pseudonyms' ... are easily contained within its not extravagant limits, and these four little books have given John Oliver Hobbes a recognized position as a master of epigram and narrative comedy."--_St. James's Gazette._ "As her star has been sudden in its rise so may it stay long with us! Some day she may give us something better than these tingling, pulsing, mocking, epigrammatic morsels."--_Times._