HEINEMANN'S 2s NET NOVELS
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THE SHUTTLE
By MRS. HODGSON BURNETT
Author of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "The Secret Garden," etc.
"Takes its place at once and without dispute among the greater permanent works of fiction. Breadth and sanity of outlook, absolute mastery of human character and life, bigness of story interest, place Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's new book alongside the best work of George Eliot.... The dignity and strength of a great novel such as this put to the blush all but a very few living English storytellers."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"A remarkable novel, for it is written with a sincerity and glow and power which bear the reader restlessly along the strange current of events that the writer sets herself to describe."—Standard.
"Mrs. Burnett has the gift of a narrator to a high degree, and in spite of its faults, her latest novel makes a highly readable story."—Daily Mail.
"A novel of the highest rank."—Daily Graphic.
Mrs. Burnett is a past-master in drawing her own countrywomen, and Betty is a dazzling vision of youthful charm combined with business-like competence."—The Queen.
"The story is rich and spacious; it illustrates human nature, both British and American, in a simple and massive way, and paints both in the primary colours."—Westminster Gazette.
BELLA DONNA
By ROBERT HICHENS
Author of "The Londoners," "Flames," "An Imaginative Man," etc.
This is the excellent novel on which the excellent play of the same title is founded. It is a book full of weird, haunting scenes of passion in the desert, full of the strange sinister fatalism of Eastern minds.
"This is one of the best novels that we have ever read, and quite the best that Mr. Robert Hichens has written. It combines the two elements of which every good novel ought to be composed, subtle analysis of character and an exciting plot.... We will not spoil the reading of this book by sketching the thrilling plot, which is enacted on the Nile and its banks. Needless to say, the Egyptian scenery and servants are described by Mr. Hichens with affectionate familiarity."—Saturday Review.
"It is admirable drama. It lives with a present life, and moves swiftly. Some of the situations are intensely thrilling; the dialogue is firm and easy; the whole treatment forcible without theatricalism.... Our attention is fixed at the start, and kept to the end, on a duel between Isaacson and Bella Donna. It is magnificent ... there can be no denying it is a very fine novel."—The Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette.
"It is particularly interesting; its characters are drawn with particular care and splendid skill.... 'Bella Donna' is a fine study of a woman of passion; remorseless in its truth, fascinating in its unmasking of the hidden springs of selfish desire."—The Globe.
THE BOOK OF A BACHELOR
By DUNCAN SCHWANN
Author of "The Magic of the Hill"
Mr. Duncan Schwann has recently been acclaimed as one of the four great humourists in England at the present time. This "Book of a Bachelor" is delightful reading of a light kind, but it carries weight also, for Mr. Schwann has picked out the little feeblenesses and frailty of this world as a background to his airy frivolity.
"A picturesque romance of modern life is this story by Duncan Schwann.... There is, indeed, a good deal of cleverness in the book."—Westminster Gazette.
"... Is decidedly entertaining. Mr. Schwann is an admirable journalist who has already given proof of his power, but he has done nothing so good as this ... which is intelligent, humorous, and on the side of the angels."—British Weekly.
"There is knowledge of the world and some mild philosophy to be found in this pleasant romance of modern life."—Globe.
A SHIP OF SOLACE
By ELEANOR MORDAUNT
Author of "The Garden of Contentment"
"The Garden of Contentment," those charming letters to Mr. Nobody, has never ceased to sell from the moment it was published. The same may be said of "A Ship of Solace," which is filled with the breath of the sea, and the pleasing state of mind of complete idleness. It is a book for quiet hours, to which one can turn with pleasurable anticipation of repose and refreshment.
"Readers who like the scent of real sea air will revel in this truly delightful book."—Daily Telegraph.
THE GIFT OF THE GODS
By FLORA ANNIE STEEL
Author of "On the Face of the Waters," "The Potter's Thumb," "From the Five Rivers," etc. etc.
"She has that gift, rare now among novelists, of being interested, first of all, in the story she has to tell. She is herself so strongly interested that her readers are carried along with her and share in her vitality and freshness."—Standard.
"Mrs. Steel gives us one admirably dramatic scene,—the death of an old woman from shock at a sudden disillusion while on her way to the Communion Table.... The squalid and starveling lot of crofters living on barren soil in or towards the last decade of the 19th century is well depicted."—Athenæum.