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"Brilliantly drawn ... a book to be read."--_Daily Chronicle._
"Thoroughly calculated to charm the novel-reading public by its
ceaseless excitement ... from first to last the interest never
flags. A work of the most exciting interests and superb
descriptions."--_Athenaeum._
Pretty Michal. (_Fourth Edition._)
By MAURUS JOKAI. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a specially
engraved Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jokai.
"A fascinating novel."--_The Speaker._
"His workmanship is admirable, and he possesses a degree of
sympathetic imagination not surpassed by any living novelist. The
action of his stories is life-like, and full of movement and
interest."--_Westminster Gazette._
A Hungarian Nabob. (_Fifth Edition._)
By MAURUS JOKAI. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a fine
Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jokai.
"Full of exciting incidents and masterly studies of
character."--_Court Circular._
"The work of a genius."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
In Tight Places. (_Third Edition._)
By MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS, Author of "Forbidden by Law," etc. 6/=
"A lively and varied series of cosmopolitan crime, with plenty of
mixed adventure and sensation. Such stories always fascinate, and
Major Arthur Griffiths knows well how to tell them."--_Pall Mall
Gazette._
St. Peter's Umbrella. (_Third Edition._)
By KALMAN MIKSZATH, Author of "The Good People of Palvez."
Translated from the original Hungarian by W. B. Worswick. With
Introduction by R. Nisbet Bain. A charming Photogravure Portrait of the
Author and three illustrations. 6/=
"The freshness, high spirits, and humour of Mikszath make him a
fascinating companion. His peasants, priests, and gentlefolks are
amazingly human. Mikszath is a born story-teller."--_The
Spectator._
The Adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac. Captain Satan. (_Fourth
Edition._)
From the French of Louis Gallet. With specially engraved Portrait of
Cyrano de Bergerac. 6/=
"A delightful book. So vividly delineated are the _dramatis
personae_, so interesting and enthralling are the incidents in the
development of the tale, that it is impossible to skip one page, or
to lay down the volume until the last words are read."--_Daily
Telegraph._
A Woman's Burden. (_Third Edition._)
By FERGUS HUME, Author of "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," "The
Lone Inn," etc. 6/=
"Very good reading."--_Athenaeum._
"Simply full of thrills from cover to cover."--_Publishers'
Circular._
Vivian of Virginia. (_Second Edition._)
Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, by John Vivian, of Middle
Plantation, Virginia. By Hulbert Fuller, Author of "God's Rebel." With
ten charming Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. 6/=
"There is not a dull moment in the quaintly-written story,
adventure following adventure, holding the reader in thrall; whilst
the love interest is fully sustained."--_Gentlewoman._
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