“This extremely clever sketch, with its subtle analysis and almost pitiless dissection of character and ‘motives,’ is as intensely modern ‘as they make them.’” CHRISTIAN AND LEAH. _Translated from the German of Leopold Kompert, by_ ALFRED S. ARNOLD. Birmingham Post. “The tales are tenderly told, and the life of the Ghetto is made very real to us as we read, and beautiful as well as real. There is amid the sordid surroundings ... an ever-present dignity and sublimity of conception about the great mysteries of life, and a moral purity, which win respect and admiration.” THE WITCH OF WITHYFORD: A ROMANCE OF EXMOOR. BY GRATIANA CHANTER. Pall Mall Gazette. “Charmingly told with a simplicity and delicacy that marks an ability above the common.” WHERE HIGHWAYS CROSS. BY J. S. FLETCHER. Guardian. “A charming idyll. Thoroughly original and cleverly worked out.” A LOST ENDEAVOUR. BY GUY BOOTHBY. Saturday Review. “An exceedingly effective story; he grips the reader from the outset, and holds him to the end.” LIVES THAT CAME TO NOTHING. BY GARRETT LEIGH. * * * * * Pott 8vo, cloth, gilt top, 1s. 6d. net each volume. _Odd Volumes Series._ ASTECK’S MADONNA, AND OTHER STORIES. BY CHARLES KENNETT BURROW. Manchester Guardian. “It is turned out with all the daintiness we have learned to expect from its publishers. If its contents are an earnest of the standard of workmanship to be maintained in the remaining volumes, we can look forward to them with pleasure. Each one of the nine stories is technically a work of art.” To-Day. “The daintiest, lightest, and best printed book I have ever seen at the price. The first two pages are enough to show that the author has great gifts, a sense of the fitness of words, an ear for the rhythm of fine prose--a style, in fact. But he has more than these. He has observed keenly and felt deeply the moods of nature and of human nature. He writes with knowledge, and from the heart. Two main ideas I find informing the book--a love of the great peace that lies near the heart of nature, and of the courageous spirit (born of that peace) which enables a man to look life in the face, fight its battles, and enjoy its fruits.” KIRIAK; Or, THE HUT ON HEN’S LEGS. _Translated from the Russian of_ COUNT SAILHAS _by_ Mrs. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS. Scotsman. “The simplicity of the story, and the truth and delicacy of touch with which its pathetic central figures are drawn, give the book a rare charm.” World. “Told with a rugged force, and unstrained pathos, and a mastery of simple yet beautiful imagery that reflect the unmistakable literary genius of Count Sailhas, its author.” IN RUSTIC LIVERY. BY GEORGE MORLEY. The Literary World.