"There are several literary ladies, of recent origin, who have tried to come up to the society ideal; but John Oliver Hobbes is by far the best writer of them all, by far the most capable artist in fiction.... She is clever enough for anything."--_Saturday Review._ THE HERB MOON BY JOHN OLIVER HOBBES _Third Edition, Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s. "The jaded reader who needs sauce for his literary appetite cannot do better than buy 'The Herb Moon.'"--_Literary World._ "A book to hail with more than common pleasure. The epigrammatic quality, the power of rapid analysis and brilliant presentation are there, and added to these a less definable quality, only to be described as charm.... 'The Herb Moon' is as clever as most of its predecessors, and far less artificial."--_Athenæum._ THE STICKIT MINISTER AND SOME COMMON MEN BY S. R. CROCKETT _Eleventh Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s. "Here is one of the books which are at present coming singly and at long intervals, like early swallows, to herald, it is to be hoped, a larger flight. When the larger flight appears, the winter of our discontent will have passed, and we shall be able to boast that the short story can make a home east as well as west of the Atlantic. There is plenty of human nature--of the Scottish variety, which is a very good variety--in 'The Stickit Minister' and its companion stories; plenty of humour, too, of that dry, pawky kind which is a monopoly of 'Caledonia, stern and wild'; and, most plentiful of all, a quiet perception and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life which is to be discovered, not in Scotland alone, but everywhere that a man is found who can see with the heart and the imagination as well as the brain. Mr. Crockett has given us a book that is not merely good, it is what his countrymen would call 'by-ordinar good,' which, being interpreted into a tongue understanded of the southern herd, means that it is excellent, with a somewhat exceptional kind of excellence."--_Daily Chronicle._ THE LILAC SUN-BONNET BY S. R. CROCKETT _Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s. "Mr. Crockett's 'Lilac Sun-Bonnet' 'needs no bush.' Here is a pretty love tale, and the landscape and rural descriptions carry the exile back into the Kingdom of Galloway. Here, indeed, is the scent of bog-myrtle and peat. After inquiries among the fair, I learn that of all romances, they best love, not 'sociology,' not 'theology,' still less, open manslaughter, for a motive, but just love's young dream, chapter after chapter. From Mr. Crockett they get what they want, 'hot with,' as Thackeray admits that he liked it."--Mr. ANDREW LANG in _Longman's Magazine_. THE RAIDERS BY S. R. CROCKETT _Eighth Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth_, 6s.