“A delightful story.... It is some time since we have read a sweeter love-scene than that with which the book happily closes; and, indeed, throughout you feel yourself in Arden.” * * * * * Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net. VENUS AND CUPID; Or, A TRIP FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS TO LONDON. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA’S SCHOOL.” Nottingham Express. “This fantastic romance is calculated to offer delightful amusement to a multitude of readers, and ought to have a great run of popularity. It is a long time since we have read anything so provocative of laughter. The idea of the book is most happy and humorous; and its development leaves nothing to be desired. Every chapter is full of fun and frolic, and it is impossible to find a dull page from the beginning to the end of the story. It would be unfair to disclose the particulars of this unique ‘personally conducted tour’; but we warmly recommend holiday-makers and all others who are on the look-out for a lively and entertaining book to secure a copy of ‘Venus and Cupid,’ and if they do not find in it magic to brighten a wet day at the seaside, they are quite free to anathematise the reviewer. Our verdict is that a more mirth-provoking romance has seldom if ever been published.” Birmingham Post. “The story is thoroughly consistent, that having accepted the position--the visit of these august personages to earth--all the details are worked out in harmony with this conception, with abundant fun and humour and fancy. Cupid--or Q, as he is called--is the most delectable little rogue, and we were quite sorry to say good-bye to him.” * * * * * Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. net each volume. EMANUEL. BY HENRIK PONTOPPIDAN. _Translated from the Danish by_ Mrs. EDGAR LUCAS. ILLUSTRATED BY MISS NELLY ERICHSEN. Daily Chronicle. “Extremely interesting story ... most delicately delineated, and charms us by its idyllic grace and purity.” Manchester Guardian. “As a novel pure and simple the book is altogether out of the common, and the firmness of its character-drawing, the sympathetic rendering of nature’s background, and the prominence given to the life of the clergy, it reminds one not a little of the work of Ferdinand Fabre, the novelist _par excellence_ of French clerical life.” Glasgow Herald. “Among the many Scandinavian works that have of late appeared in an English dress, few have worn it with a more charming air than this tale of Henrik Pontoppidan’s, for a really excellent version of which we have to thank Mrs. Lucas.... The tale is told in a fashion that recalls, among our own writers, the intimate knowledge and loving descriptions of Miss Mitford or Mrs. Gaskell. It is not very far from being a work of real genius.”