A LIST OF New and Popular Books PUBLISHED BY WARD LOCK & BOWDEN LTD
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GEORGE MEREDITH
The Tale of Chloe; The House on the Beach; and The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper. By George Meredith, Author of “Diana of the Crossways,” “The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,” “The Tragic Comedians,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
“‘The Tale of Chloe’ is one of the gems of English fiction. Mr. Meredith is a cunning delineator of women—no living writer more so—but we question whether, even in Mr. Meredith’s rich array of female characters, there is any more lovable than Chloe.”—Daily Telegraph.
“It is handled with such supreme skill that it becomes really tragic for us, while never for a moment leaving its proper plane of a comedy of manners.”—The Athenæum.
By the same Author
The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a well-known Story. Revised and corrected by the Author. With an Introductory Note on Ferdinand Lassalle by Clement Shorter, and Photogravure Portrait of the Author. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (The 6s. edition can still be had.)
“One of the most brilliant of all George Meredith’s novels.”—The Speaker.
“Meredithians owe a debt of gratitude to the publishers for issuing this book.”—Review of Reviews.
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GUY BOOTHBY
In Strange Company. A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas. By Guy Boothby, Author of “On the Wallaby.” With Six Full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, 5s.
“A capital novel of its kind—the sensational adventurous. It has the quality of life and stir, and will carry the reader with curiosity unabated to the end.”—The World.
“The best of them is ‘In Strange Company.’ . . . The book is a good tale of adventure; it has plenty of astonishing incidents which yet have an air of verisimilitude.”—The Pall Mall Budget.
By the same Author.
The Marriage of Esther: A Torres Straits Sketch. By Guy Boothby, Author of “In Strange Company,” etc. With Four Full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s.
“A story full of action, life, and dramatic interest. . . . There is a vigour and a power of illusion about it that raises it quite above the level of the ordinary novel of adventure.”—Manchester Guardian.
“Gives a vivid and life-like presentment of its characters. . . . It is most exciting, Mr. Boothby’s vigorous style and happy description giving the book an interest entirely apart from that of the adventurous.”—The Star.
OUTRAM TRISTRAM
The Dead Gallant; together with “The King of Hearts.” By Outram Tristram. With Full-page Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and St. George Hare. Crown 8vo, Art linen gilt, 5s.
“Both stories are well written in faultless English, and display a knowledge of history, a careful study of character, and a fine appreciation of a dramatic point, all too rare in these days of slipshod fiction.”—National Observer.
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MAX PEMBERTON
Jewel Mysteries I Have Known. By Max Pemberton, Author of “The Iron Pirate.” With Fifty Illustrations by R. Caton Woodville and Fred Barnard. Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges, 5s.
“The most interesting and entrancing ‘mystery’ stories that have appeared since the publication of the doings of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”—The Literary World.
ARTHUR MORRISON
Martin Hewitt, Investigator. By Arthur Morrison, Author of “Tales of Mean Streets,” etc. With about Fifty Illustrations by Sydney Paget. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s.
“Most people like tales of this sort, . . . and no one writes them better than Mr. Morrison does. The narratives are written not only with ingenuity, but with conviction, which is, perhaps, even the more valuable quality.”—The Globe.
BERTRAM MITFORD
The Curse of Clement Waynflete: A Story of Two Wars. By Bertram Mitford, Author of “The King’s Assegai,” “The Gun-Runner,” etc. With Four full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
“Telling us wonderful incidents of inter-racial warfare, of ambuscades, sieges, surprises, and assaults almost without number. . . . A thoroughly exciting story, full of bright descriptions and stirring episodes.”—The Daily Telegraph.
By the same Author.
A Veldt Official: A Novel of Circumstance. With Two Full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
“Mr. Mitford is a second Rider Haggard, who generously pours us out a flood of adventure by sea and land such as keeps us ever on the qui vive of anticipation.”—Morning Leader.
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HENRY KINGSLEY’S NOVELS
HENRY KINGSLEY
New Library Edition of Henry Kingsley’s Novels, Edited by Clement K. Shorter. Well printed (from type specially cast) on good paper, and neatly and handsomely bound. With Frontispieces by eminent Artists. Price 3s. 6d. per volume.
1The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.
2Ravenshoe.
3The Hillyars and the Burtons.
4Silcote of Silcotes.
5Stretton.
6Austin Elliot and The Harveys.
7Mdlle. Mathilde.
8Old Margaret, and other Stories.
9Valentin, and Number Seventeen.
10Oakshott Castle and The Grange Garden.
11Reginald Hetherege and Leighton Court.
12The Boy in Grey, and other Stories.
“To renew your acquaintance with Henry Kingsley is for Henry Kingsley to stand forth victorious all along the line. His work, in truth, is moving and entertaining now as it was moving and entertaining thirty odd years ago.”—The Pall Mall Gazette.
“Henry Kingsley was born to wear the purple of romance. . . . Where will any one who is ordinary and sane find better comradeship? Scarcely outside the hovels of Walter Scott. . . . Messrs. Ward, Lock & Bowden’s edition of this despotic and satisfying romancer is cheap, and well printed, and comfortable to hold. Those who love Kingsley will love him again and better for this edition, and those who have not loved have a joy in store that we envy them.”—The National Observer.
“To Mr. Clement Shorter and to the publishers the unreserved thanks of the public are warmly due; there can be no finer mission from the world of fiction to the world of fact than the putting forth of these ennobling novels afresh and in a fitting form.”—The Daily Chronicle.
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NEW AND RECENT BOOKS
EDITH JOHNSTONE
A Sunless Heart. Third and Cheap Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.
“Mr. W. T. Stead, in his article on ‘Women Novelists,’ writes of ‘its intrinsic merit, its originality and its pathos, its distinctively woman’s outlook on life, and the singular glow and genius of its author.’ Lotus is a distinct creation—vivid, life-like, and original.”—Review of Reviews.
“A remarkable book—intensely human, intensely individual, and, as a story, intensely interesting. It probes problems of life which many who will find fault with it have merely played with. It has pathos, insight, and humour, and contains chapters which seem to me the work of genius.”—The Literary World.
FRANCIS PREVOST
Rust of Gold. By Francis Prevost. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s.
“A collection of short stories and dialogues. They are pointed, bright, strong in characterisation, and prettily conceived.”—The Star.
NORA VYNNE
Honey of Aloes, and other Stories. By Nora Vynne, Author of “The Blind Artist’s Pictures.” Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
“Not only do they abound in literary merit, but in thrilling interest, and there is not one of them that is not instinct with intense and veracious humanity.”—Daily Telegraph.
“Irresistibly amusing, full of character, humour, truth, with much underlying pathos. . . . The quarrel with which the chief story begins is delightfully unreasonable, progressive, inevitable, and the interest never flags for a line to the thoroughly natural and human end. The author is so clever that she makes us ready to attest the truth of her most venturesome improbabilities, and her wit is charming.”—The World.
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POPULAR THREE-AND-SIXPENNY NOVELS
A. CONAN DOYLE The First Book about Sherlock Holmes.
A Study in Scarlet. By Conan Doyle, Author of “Micah Clark,” “The Sign of Four,” “The White Company,” etc. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. With Forty Illustrations by George Hutchinson.
“One of the cleverest and best detective stories we have yet seen. . . . Mr. Conan Doyle is a literary artist, and this is a good specimen of his skill.”—London Quarterly Review.
J. E. MUDDOCK
Stormlight; or, the Nihilist’s Doom. A Story of Switzerland and Russia. By J. E. Muddock, F.R.G.S., Author of “For God and the Czar,” etc. Eighth Edition. With Two Full-page Illustrations by Gordon Browne. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
“The work has a strong plot, exciting situations, and a certain truth to history, that make it full of interest.”—The Scotsman.
EDGAR FAWCETT
Her Fair Fame. By Edgar Fawcett, Author of “An Ambitious Woman,” “Women Must Weep,” etc. With a Frontispiece by Geo. Hutchinson. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
“It is a cleverly-written dramatic piece of fiction.”—Publishers’ Circular.
HEADON HILL
The Rajah’s Second Wife. A Story of Missionary Life and Trial in India. By Headon Hill, Author of “Zambra the Detective,” “Cabinet Secrets,” etc. With Two Full-page Illustrations by Walter S. Stacey. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
“Will assuredly be read with the deepest interest. . . . The novel, as a whole, is one that will be read with genuine pleasure.”—The Scotsman.
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