The House of Defence v. 1Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
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The House of Defence v. 1
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Christian Science -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Spiritual healing -- Fiction
Miss Corelli, in her new novel, graphically describes the
loneliness and unhappiness which may well go hand in hand with the
possession of enormous and even incalculable wealth.
=A Nine Days' Wonder.= By B. M. CROKER. 1 vol.-3907.
An Irish love-story in which a peasant of the country develops into
one of the _noblesse_ of England.
=Tally Ho!= By HELEN MATHERS. 2 vols.-3908/9.
A novel of sporting life in Somersetshire, containing a clever
study of male character, under the stress of unusual temptation.
=Unto this Last and Munera Pulveris.= By JOHN RUSKIN. 1 vol.-3910.
The two books contained in this volume were published separately in
England and are the two most popular works written by M. Ruskin on
the great subject of national and political economy.
=The Woman's Victory, and Other Stories.= By MAARTEN MAARTENS. 2
vols.--3911/12.
From these short sketches of life we may well believe the author,
when he tells us in his preface that for many of his clever studies
of female character he is indebted to the confidences of the
heroines themselves.
=The Dream and the Business.= By JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. 2
vols.--3913/14.
Mrs. Craigie, whose recent death will be felt by all lovers of good
literature, has herewith given us a romance of modern times in
which politics and types of living politicians are not wanting.
=Set in Authority.= By MRS. EVERARD COTES. 1 vol.--3915.
This is an Indian story which will appeal to all politicians who
have the problem of Indian government at heart. Mrs. Cotes'
knowledge of human nature under trying circumstances is as apparent
as ever.
=The Guarded Flame.= By W. B. MAXWELL. 2 vols.--3916/17.
The flame that is here guarded is the life and intellect of a great
and world-renowned philosopher, round whose family life the author
weaves a grim and grandly described tragedy. The working of an
unusually great brain is set forth in trenchant detail.
=Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.= By THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
(With Portrait.) 1 vol.--3918.
The President of the United States is the author of several
well-known works. This, the first by his pen to appear in the
Tauchnitz Edition, deals exclusively with big-game hunting in North
America.
=The Call of the Blood.= By ROBERT HICHENS. 2 vols.--3919/20.
A Sicilian tragedy, in which an Englishwoman marries a man with the
blood of the island in his veins and an unconquerable propensity to
revert to the characteristics of its inhabitants.
=Memoirs of my Dead Life.= By GEORGE MOORE. 1 v.--3921.
A series of sketches, in some of which the love-affairs of the
author's early life are realistically set before the reader.
=Prisoners.= By MARY CHOLMONDELEY. 2 vols.--3922/23.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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