_Times._--“A story may have many and diverse effects upon its
reader. It may leave him smiling, laughing, frowning (perhaps
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_Here are Ladies_, the sketches, essays, snapshots, call them what
you will, will leave him for the most part happy and hungry--for
more.”
_Daily Graphic._--“One might go on quoting, and perhaps quoting to
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that Mr. Stephens’ humour is to our liking, his writing entrancing
to us, his originality beyond question.”
THE CROCK OF GOLD.
Crown 8vo. 5_s._ net.
_Times._--“It is crammed full of life and beauty ... this
delicious, fantastical, amorphous, inspired medley of
topsy-turvydom.”
_Punch._--“A fairy fantasy, elvish, grotesque, realistic,
allegorical, humorous, satirical, idealistic, and poetical by turns
... and very beautiful.”
_Pall Mall Gazette._--“A wise, beautiful, and humorous book.... If
you could have given Sterne a soul and made him a poet he might
have produced _The Crock of Gold_.”
THE CHARWOMAN’S DAUGHTER.
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_Punch._--“A little gem.... It is a very long time indeed since we
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phrase or illuminating piece of character-drawing.”
_Evening Standard._--“Will give many honest English men and women
delight of a kind very few novelists give them to-day.”
_Daily News and Leader._--“Mary is surely one of the most gracious
figures of girlhood in modern fiction. She is made out of music and
flowers.... A wholly delightful and buoyant book.”
RECENT FICTION
THE INSIDE OF THE CUP.
By WINSTON CHURCHILL. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo. 6_s._
_Daily Chronicle._--“Calculated to arouse much thought and great
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story is that it is in some way magnificent, with many a fine and
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_Times._--“Mr. Churchill has written a fine and moving book.”
_Truth._--“This brilliant novel.... In a word, _The Inside of
the Cup_ is a sign of the times, and a book for the times which
everyone should read.”
_World._--“It is a work which can be argued over _ad infinitum_,
and it is one which is as finely conceived as it is admirably
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A PRISONER IN FAIRYLAND. (THE BOOK THAT “UNCLE PAUL” WROTE.)
By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Extra crown 8vo. 6_s._
_Globe._--“A story in many ways the most beautiful of all Mr.
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