Manchester Guardian.--“‘The Jewel Sowers’ is wholly fantastic in its incidents, but its characters are those of our society, and with all the machinery of a fairy tale, the book still belongs to the realms of daily fiction. Appropriately enough the scene is laid in another world, one in which everything is said to be the opposite of the life of this planet. But this is a mere warning that the tale is fantastic; men and women in Lucifram, as the new world is called, are even too much like those on this, and if their powers are strangely superior, their motives are entirely familiar. The book, in fact, is an experiment in fantasy, and none the less pleasant on that account. It is neither an allegory, as are other tales similarly constructed, nor yet a satire, though there are elements of both interwoven with the adventures and the incidents. The anonymous authoress has demanded a wider sphere for the evolution of her characters, and no one who feels the charms of her pleasantly depicted heroine will grudge the novel atmosphere in which she is forced to suffer and to act. The book is lightly written, bright, and entertaining, and almost every character introduced is neatly characterised. Perhaps the best of them is the fairy frog, whose cheerful temper is the result of martyrdom, and who should earn a place among the favourite heroes of the fairy world.” A Heroine of Reality. A Novel by PERCY VINCENT DONOVAN. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. To-Day.--“Picturesquely staged amid the mountains and valleys of Switzerland. The interest of this powerful story is centred in an unhappy middle-aged woman’s taint of drunkenness, and this secret vice forms the pivot around which the love story of three men for her daughter revolves. The characters are well drawn, and distinctly more human than those one is accustomed to meet in the average novel.” The Staff in Flower. A Novel by WILLIAM PLATT (Author of “The Maid Lilias”). Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. Bookman.--“It has, what so many novels have not, a definite purpose and a bold originality of outlook, It is a book which makes one curious to know who wrote it.” Morning Leader.--“Written with undoubted strength and thought, and vigour of language.” Christian World.--“A story which, despite some boldness, is strong and original.” Lloyd’s News.--“It is a distinctly clever book, with many fine passages in it, and reading it is anything but a tiring task.” The World.--“The vigour and boldness, recklessness indeed, with which theories are advanced, conclusions are rather wrenched then drawn, and flung at the reader’s head, give the book an attraction.” His Grace’s Grace. A Novel by C. RANGER-GULL (Author of “The Serf,” “Back to Lilac Land,” “The Hypocrite,” &c.) Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. Standard.--“Mr. Ranger-Gull is very clever. He can write well, even brilliantly.... Mr. Ranger-Gull opens his story vigorously, and his good spirits never flag. The book is brim-full of cleverness.”