“Dear familiar friends, companions, playmates of his are these men and women and children, and he tells you about them so vividly and tenderly that they must be your friends and familiars, too--for their mere charm and their humanness’ sake--in their jests and idle pastimes, not less than in their tragedies and joys.... If you love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough--and have your reward.”--_New York Times Review._ “Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal. A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America. Absolutely masterly. The plot is extremely ingenious and complicated.”--_The Dial._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN’S ALICE-FOR-SHORT The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family. Seventh printing. $1.75. “Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan.”--_Boston Transcript._ “It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Page by page the new book is as rich, piquant, and interesting as its predecessor.... Everywhere are wit, learning, and scholarship ... the true creative imagination.... Will be remembered as Dickens’s novels are remembered.”--_Springfield Republican._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN’S JOSEPH VANCE A novel of life near London in the 50’s. Eighth printing. $1.75. “The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.”--LEWIS MELVILLE in _New York Times Saturday Review_. “If the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can find the two books in this one.”--_The Independent._ ⁂ If the reader will send his name and address, the publishers will send, from time to time, information regarding their new books. =A LORD OF LANDS= By Ramsey Benson. 326 pp., 12mo. $1.50. The unusual and convincing narrative of the experiences of a man of good sense, with wages of $50 a month and five children, following his determination to leave the city and farm it in the Northwest. “A book of real adventure--an adventure in living. More thrilling than an African jungle story, and not lacking in humor and pathos. Nothing is more wonderful than the way the commonest details contribute to the homely interest, just as long ago we were fascinated by the ‘Swiss Family Robinson.’”--_The Independent._