BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY FOLLY CORNER 3d Impression 12mo $1.25 A STORY OF SUSSEX TO-DAY “A work of art which is not only permeated with an extraordinarily sympathetic understanding of the human heart, but displays also from beginning to end the sort of vigor and sanity that can employ the most delicate instruments and the subtlest methods without becoming intellectually nearsighted and without losing even for a moment a sense of true proportion.... Mrs. Dudeney is the equal of Thomas Hardy, as she is his literary congener.”--_Professor Harry Thurston Peck in the Bookman._ “It shows the same deep insight into the complications of the human soul [as did the author’s earlier novel].... This story from the opening page is tense with sustained power and is surely destined to be one of the most important contributions to this season’s fiction.”--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._ MEN OF MARLOWE’S 12mo $1.25 CONTENTS.--Introductory--The One in Red--Arnold’s Laundress--Why?--Jimmy--Game Feathers--An Interlude--Mortgaged--A Political Woman--Beyond the Gray Gate--The Set at Seven--Hopkins. These stories of residents in one of the English “Inns,” like those of “The Temple,” are so interrelated as almost to constitute a continuous novel. They show more humor than anything the author has done, and a variety of powers hardly foreshadowed even in “Folly Corner.” HENRY HOLT & CO. NEW YORK MEN OF MARLOWE’S BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY AUTHOR OF “FOLLY CORNER,” ETC. [Illustration: Decorative Image] NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1900 COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HENRY HOLT & CO. THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS RAHWAY, N. J. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTORY 1 THE ONE IN RED 9 ARNOLD’S LAUNDRESS 39 WHY? 71 JIMMY 93 GAME FEATHERS 117 AN INTERLUDE 135 MORTGAGED 161 A POLITICAL WOMAN 185 BEYOND THE GRAY GATE 201 THE SET AT SEVEN 233 HOPKINS 263 MEN OF MARLOWE’S. INTRODUCTORY. “AS a woman in search of sensation, you should not have come to me. I can tell you tales, but they are not exactly sensational--hardly a detective in them.” “The detective is a slur on any story. He is merely the author’s fool.” “But they are not even love stories of the kind you’re accustomed to.” “Of course not. Here in an Inn of Court you have no opportunities--no conservatory, no ballroom, no garden parties. Gerald proposed to me on the Underground Railway--and deserved to be refused. But he had the grace to apologize.” “Well, I’ll tell you all I know--or nearly. Some very droll things that I _could_ tell would not interest you.” “I don’t mind being startled. You promised not to irritate me by being chivalrous. Chivalry! That subtle grip of the Middle Ages on my sex.”