E-text prepared by David Edwards, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28982-h.htm or 28982-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28982/pg28982-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28982/28982-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/ghettocomedies00zanguoft +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and inconsistant spelling in the | | original document have been preserved. This document | | contains Yiddish and other dialects. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ GHETTO COMEDIES by ISRAEL ZANGWILL * * * * * New 6s. Novels. THE EXPENSIVE MISS DU CANE. By S. MACNAUGHTAN. 'To resist the charm of Hetty Du Cane one must be singularly hard to please.'--_Spectator._ THE LOST WORD. By EVELYN UNDERHILL. 'She writes vigorously and well, with a clear sense of the beauty of language and a notable power of description.'--_Times._ THE COUNTRY HOUSE. By JOHN GALSWORTHY. 'It deserves the widest measure of success as a careful study of modern life and an interesting piece of fiction, presented with remarkable literary ability.'--_Daily Telegraph._ MEMOIRS OF A PERSON OF QUALITY. By ASHTON HILLIERS. 'Such a recruit as Mr. Hilliers is welcome to the ranks of novelists.... He has absorbed the spirit of the times with remarkable ability. Mr. Hilliers has a fine literary future before him, and we are glad to give his maiden effort a cordial greeting.'--_Athenaeum._ PAUL. By E.F. BENSON. 'A genuinely fine novel; a story marked by powerful workmanship and glowing with the breath of life.'--_Daily Telegraph._ THE SWIMMERS. By E.S. RORISON. 'Full of crisp dialogue and bright descriptive passages.'--_Athenaeum._ THE TRAIL TOGETHER. By H.H. BASHFORD. 'Very interesting, very well constructed, and admirably written; altogether an excellent piece of work.'--_Daily Telegraph._