"The book is one to read, having the blessed quality of making you chuckle: the best of qualities in literature, one is inclined to say, in these tired days."--_Black and White._ STORIES OF LOWER LONDON. _Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d._ East End Idylls By A. St John Adcock. "This is a remarkable book. It is a collection of short stories on East End life, but they are told with that real realism of observation of which Mr Morrison has set the fashion. The setting is real, the slang is real, the manners and customs seem to have been drawn from life."--_The Daily News._ "It does not need any actual experience of East End life to tell the reader of these 'East End Idylls' that they are the work of a master-hand.... The little idylls are all exquisitely done--exquisitely, we say, because there is no other word which will do full justice to the performance."--_The Sun._ "Very vivid sketches of the East End as it is to-day. In the intimacy they display with life in the slums, and in the terseness and force of their style, they boldly challenge comparison with 'Tales of Mean Streets,' nor do they lose by the comparison. Mr Adcock's themes are less gloomy and hopeless than Mr Morrison's. Amid all the misery he loves to recount deeds of unselfish devotion and simple heroism; nor do I believe that he is less true to life because his realism is less grim."--_The Pall Mall Gazette._ "Distinctly a book worth reading. There is heroism here, and knowledge--true insight, in fact--and sympathy."--_The Leeds Mercury._ "A series of touching and delightful sketches. Much has been written of the East End, but rarely with more charm or sympathy than by Mr Adcock."--_The Star._ "Mr Adcock possesses a graphic pen, and has sketched the loves and hates, the joys and the sorrows of the dwellers in London's mighty East in a series of short, vigorous stories that make up a very delightful volume."--_Lloyd's Newspaper._ A BOOK OF YACHTING STORIES FOR HOLIDAY READING. _Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d._ The Paper Boat By "Palinurus." _OPINIONS OF THE PRESS._ "Lively tales of yachting adventure.... 'The Paper Boat' will be a pleasant companion on any cruise, and we wish her a prosperous voyage on her own account as well."--_Glasgow Herald._ "Bright and amusing.... There is some charming description in the book, which is in every respect eminently readable, making no heavy demands on the reader, and keeping him in good humour."--_The Sportsman._ "Brightly written stories of the sea.... The stories have a brightness and freshness which cannot fail to give pleasure."--_Manchester Courier._ "We unreservedly recommend this book to any one on holiday as a sure tonic against business worries and city soot. It has the same effect as a whip of salt spray on the face of a jaded worker."--_N. B. Daily Mail._