The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 2/2Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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The Cuckoo in the Nest, v. 2/2
Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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“The multitude of readers who were delighted and instructed by ‘The
Light of Asia’ will turn to this new volume with lively expectation. The
whole burden of the poem is to set forth the joyful aspect of the
Christian faith as compared with that of Buddha.”--_Daily News._
7. THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW. By RUDYARD KIPLING, Author of “The Light
that Failed,” “Soldiers Three,” &c. 1 vol.
“He is a born story-teller, and a man of humour into the
bargain.”--_Saturday Review._
8, 9. URITH. By S. BARING-GOULD, Author of “Mehalah,” “John
Herring,” &c. 2 vols.
“A powerful and ingenious romance.”--_Anti-Jacobin._
“Mr. Baring-Gould has been able to create a strong interest, and to
maintain it at a high pitch.”--_Athenæum._
10, 11. MARCIA. By W. E. NORRIS, Author of “Matrimony,” “No New
Thing.” &c. 2 vols.
“Mr. Norris has the light touch of Thackeray, who guides us through
three or four generations as gracefully as a well-bred man might point
out the portraits of his ancestors in the family picture
gallery.”--_Quarterly Review._
12, 13. BRAVE HEART AND TRUE. By FLORENCE MARRYAT, Author of “My
Sister the Actress,” “Véronique,” &c. 2 vols.
“Miss Marryat wields a clever pen.”--_Athenæum._
[A] The greater number of the Volumes mentioned in the following
catalogue are now ready, and may be obtained from every bookseller and
at every railway bookstall on the Continent. The reader is referred to
the last pages of the cover for an exact list of the volumes of =The
English Library= issued up to the present date.
14, 15. BASIL AND ANNETTE. By B. L. FARJEON, Author of “Grif,”
“Blade o’ Grass,” &c. 2 vols.
“One of the most finished stories, from a literary point of view, that
the author has ever produced.”--_Spectator._
16, 17. IN THE HEART OF THE STORM. By MAXWELL GRAY, Author of “The
Silence of Dean Maitland.” 2 vols.
“The nobility, the seriousness of purpose, the keen sense of humour, the
boldness and brilliance in description, will all be familiar to the
readers of her previous works. It stands far, very far, above our
average fiction.”--_Speaker._
18. TOURMALIN’S TIME CHEQUES. By F. ANSTEY, Author of “Vice Versâ,”
“The Giant’s Robe,” &c. 1 vol.
“A writer who thoroughly understands and sympathetically describes
English character.”--_Vanity Fair._
19, 20. THE WAGES OF SIN. By LUCAS MALET. Author of “Col. Enderby’s
Wife,” “Mrs. Lorimer,” &c. 2 vols.
“Since ‘The Mill on the Floss’ there has been nothing more powerful in
fiction.”--_Scotsman._
“We admire greatly the singular dramatic power, psychological skill, and
literary art of Lucas Malet, never displayed with such effect as in ‘The
Wages of Sin.’”--_Speaker._
21. THE ANGLOMANIACS. By Mrs. BURTON HARRISON. 1 vol.
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