"The appearance of a new book by Mr. Becke has become an event of note--and very justly. No living author, if we except Mr. Kipling, has so amazing a command of that unhackneyed vitality of phrase that most people call by the name of realism. Whether it is scenery or character or incident that he wishes to depict, the touch is ever so dramatic and vivid that the reader is conscious of a picture and impression that has no parallel save in the records of actual sight and memory."--_Westminster Gazette._ "Another series of sketches of island life in the South Seas, not inferior to those contained in 'By Reef and Palm.'"--_Speaker._ "The book is well worth reading. The author knows what he is talking about and has a keen eye for the picturesque."--G. B. BURGIN in _To-day_. "A notable contribution to the romance of the South Seas." T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P., in _The Graphic_. * * * * * CLARA HOPGOOD BY MARK RUTHERFORD _EDITED_ BY REUBEN SHAPCOTT _Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth_, =6s.= (_The Third and Cheaper Edition is now ready, Crown 8vo, cloth_, =3s. 6d.=) "The writer who goes by the name of Mark Rutherford is not the most popular novelist of his time by any means. There are writers with names which that recluse genius has never heard of, probably, whose stories give palpitations to thousands of gentle souls, while his own are quietly read by no more than as many hundreds. Yet his publisher never announces a new story by the Author of 'Mark Rutherford's Autobiography,' and 'The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,'--which we believe to be one of the most remarkable bits of writing that these times can boast of--without strongly exciting the interest of many who know books as precious stones are known in Hatton Garden.... 'Clara Hopgood' is entirely out of the way of all existing schools of novel-writing.... Had we to select a good illustration of 'Mark's way' as distinguished from the way of modern storytellers in general, we should point to the chapter in which Baruch visits his son Benjamin in this narration. Nothing could be more simple, nothing more perfect."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ A FIRST FLEET FAMILY: BEING A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED NARRATIVE OF CERTAIN REMARKABLE ADVENTURES COMPILED FROM THE PAPERS OF SERGEANT WILLIAM DEW, OF THE MARINES BY LOUIS BECKE and WALTER JEFFERY _Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth_, =6s.= "As convincingly real and vivid as a narrative can be."--_Sketch._ "No maker of plots could work out a better story of its kind, nor balance it more neatly."--_Daily Chronicle._