CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, GREAT NEW STREET, FETTER LANE, E.C. * * * * * NOTICE. Now ready, at every Library in the Kingdom, THE MYSTERY OF KILLARD. A New Novel. By RICHARD DOWLING, AUTHOR OF "THE WEIRD SISTERS." In Three Vols. "A noticeable book; it contrives to arouse and maintain interest with a very small number of incidents and personages, dramatically handled. Hugo might in his younger days, and before he had learnt the fatal lesson of setting his own personality above the claims of art and reason, have given us such pictures."--_Academy._ "All things being taken in consideration, it may be pronounced a decided success ... This work alone would have been enough to have established the author's claim to a place amongst the first of living writers of exciting fiction of the more intense kind."--_Morning Post._ "Full of dramatic action. Clever delineations of strongly contrasted human eccentricities, interwoven with which is a love-story of singular freshness."--_Illustrated London News._ "The nature of the novel is indeed uncommonly fine."--_World._ "Novels are so apt to belie their name by running in the most well-worn of ruts, and by exhibiting a striking deficiency of novelty, that we welcome with special eagerness any outcome of real imaginative invention; and the conception of the original situation, the nature of which is sufficiently indicated here, amply proves that Mr. Dowling possesses a large measure of genuine creative power."--_Spectator._ "There is not a single bit of 'good society' in the whole book, an omission for which readers may well be thankful. The story is kept mysterious with success."--_Athenæum._ "The novel is unquestionably powerful, well written, true to the life which it describes, and eminently pure and healthy in tone."--_Globe._ "Mr. Dowling has wisely avoided the footsteps of his predecessors, and has given us a powerfully realistic picture of the wild unexplored beauty of the coast of Clare and its inhabitants, not relying upon such poor phrases as 'begorra' and 'bedad' for humour. The characters are well drawn, the descriptions are almost photographic, and the story is vigorously written."--_Whitehall Review._ "He has given us a book to 'read,' and one we can commend to all who care for a realistic picture without the too common trash associated with the ordinary novel."--_Examiner._ "Is a psychological study. The style is all that it should be: simple, graphic, and at times powerful. We have not read a novel with so much pleasure for a long time."--_John Bull._ "_A book to read and be thankful for. It will be a day to be marked by a white stone when Mr. Dowling gives us another novel._"--STANDARD. * * * * *