Part 43

Captain Shannon. By Coulson Kernahan, Author of "God and the Ant." Illustrated by F. S. Wilson.

"It contains plenty of daring, imaginative flights, and not one tiresome or commonplace episode."--The Globe.

"The perils which Rissler has to undergo before he finally runs the victim to earth--or rather to water--are so terrible that they might well be warranted to turn the hair of any man white."--The Speaker.

EDITH JOHNSTONE.

A Sunless Heart. By Edith Johnstone. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

"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."--The Review of Reviews.

CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.

Fort Frayne. A Story of Army Life in the Northwest. With Portrait of the Author. Crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.

"A rattling good story.... Keeps one interested and amused from first to last."--Pall Mall Gazette.

"A story of border warfare, so interesting that it is hard to lay it down.... A very well-written story, full of keen interest and fine character."--Guardian.

ADA CAMBRIDGE.

A Humble Enterprise. By Ada Cambridge, Author of "The Three Miss Kings," "Fidelis," "A Marked Man," &c. With Four Full-page Illustrations by St. Clair Simmons. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.

"It is a delightful story, refreshingly original, singularly well told and absorbingly interesting from beginning to end."--Daily Mail.

"A pretty, graceful story, and one to leave, so to speak, a clean taste in one's mouth; such dishes are rarely served to the public."--Pall Mall Gazette.

At Midnight. By Ada Cambridge, Author of "A Humble Enterprise," &c. Fully Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.

"This latest production from the pen of Miss Ada Cambridge is sure to be a great success."

NORA VYNNE.

Honey of Aloes, and other Stories. By Nora Vynne, Author of "The Blind Artist's Pictures," "A Comedy of Honour," &c. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

"These tales are in every respect worthy of conservation, and we cordially congratulate the reading public, as well as their author, upon their reproduction in book form. 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.... 'Their Reason,' 'A Dilemma,' 'Greek and Greek,' and 'Lost Kisses,' deserve special and unqualified laudation."--Daily Telegraph.

WILLIAM LE QUEUX.

A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist. By William Le Queux, Author of "The Great War," "Zoraida," &c. With Frontispiece by Harold Piffard. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

"Apart altogether from its political interest, 'A Secret Service' will be read and appreciated for its brightly written stories of mystery and sensation and romance which are threaded together in the narrative of Anton Prehzner."--Daily Mail.

CONAN DOYLE.

The First Book about Sherlock Holmes.

A Study in Scarlet. By A. Conan Doyle, Author of "Micah Clarke," "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," &c. With Forty Illustrations by George Hutchinson. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.

"Everything that prince of amateur detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, says is worth hearing, and the dramatic surprises contained in his amiable and artistic fooling of the two brother detectives are capitally conceived."--Black and White.

"Few things have been so good of late as Mr. Conan Doyle's 'Study in Scarlet,'"--Mr. Andrew Lang, in Longman's Magazine.

ANNIE E. HOLDSWORTH.