STORIES, SKETCHES, AND STUDIES BY CHARLES GRANVILLE _Second edition. Crown 8vo. 6s._ _FULL OF CLEVER CHARACTERISATION_ A fine vein of poetic feeling runs through all these stories, sketches, and studies, which are, without exception, highly entertaining and full of clever characterisation. Mr Granville's style is by turns naïve, deliberate and restrained, but always attractive. _The Times._--"A pleasant book ... prettily conceived and told...." _The Scotsman._--"The stories are always interesting, both as studies of odd aspects of humanity and for the curious modern reticence of their art." CLEMENT K. SHORTER in _The Sphere_.--"'Some Neighbours' deserves the highest commendation." _The Morning Leader._--"The treatment is invariably fresh and individual ... thoroughly readable." _Eastern Morning News._--"There can be nothing but praise--and that of a high quality--for a man who writes with Mr Granville's sympathy and charm ... his art is so sure that he puts a world of life and reality into a few pages." _Liverpool Daily Post._--"Mr Granville is a writer possessing literary gifts very much above the average, and the versatility of his gifts is very fully indicated in the book under notice." _Yorkshire Observer._--"The author certainly shows that love of humanity which marks the creative mind." _Aberdeen Free Press._--"All of them are readable, and there are one or two of _quite surprising excellence_.... These are characterised by real literary power, and suffused with true poetic feeling." _Westminster Review._--"Mr Granville's humour is of that quality which perceives the sense of tears in human things. To those capable of appreciating fine literature we recommend 'Some Neighbours.'" _The Commentator._--"This clever writer's characteristic originality and freshness both of thought and expression." London: STEPHEN SWIFT & CO., LTD., 10 John St., Adelphi CIVIL WAR A Play in Four Acts BY ASHLEY DUKES _Crown 8vo. 2s. net_ _A DRAMA WITHOUT ARTIFICIALITY_ This play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. It presents an intellectual conflict which is also a passionate conflict of individualities, and the theme is treated with sympathy and humanity. The portrait of life in a colony of revolutionists alone would make "Civil War" something of a dramatic curiosity, but it is more than that. It is at once effective and original. The play was given for the first time by the Incorporated Stage Society in June 1910, with remarkable success, and it will shortly be revived by several of our newer repertory theatres. It should be read as well as seen, however, for it is dramatic without artificiality, and literary without affectation. _The following is what some of the Press think of the play:_ _Pall Mall Gazette_:--"A very interesting, sincere, and artistic piece of work."