Part 16

By the Author of “A MUMMER’S LIFE,” “A MODERN LOVER,” “ESSAYS AND IMPRESSIONS,” etc.

In crown 8vo, with Numerous Illustrations by

MAURICE GREIFFENHAGEN.

6/-.

Also a LARGE-PAPER EDITION, crown 4to, limited to 150 Copies, Numbered and Signed by the Author, £1 5s. net. [October 15th.

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TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH.

THE RESIDENT’S DAUGHTER, A NOVEL.

By MELATI VAN TAVA. Translated from the Dutch by A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. [In preparation.

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NEW 2/- NOVELS. THE DYNAMITARDS: A TALE OF A.D. 1888. By REGINALD TAYLER. [Shortly.

A FREAK OF FATE. By ERNEST F. SPENCE. [Shortly.

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A SHILLING SHOCKER!

THE BIG BOW MYSTERY.

By I. ZANGWILL, Author of “The Bachelor’s Club,” etc.

REPRINTED FROM THE Star. [Shortly.

The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour.

A New Series of Monthly Volumes designed to supply the Public with Entertaining Literature by the Best Writers.

Crown 8vo, cloth, with Portrait, 2s. 6d. each.

VOL. I.—ESSAYS IN LITTLE.

By ANDREW LANG.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“If it is well to judge by firstfruits (and, generally speaking, the judgment is right), the new ‘Whitefriars Library’ should compass the very laudable designs of its projectors. The first monthly volume of the new series may fairly be said to be aflush with the finest promise. Mr. Andrew Lang’s ‘ESSAYS IN LITTLE’ is one of the most entertaining and bracing of books. Full of bright and engaging discourse, these charming and recreative essays are the best of good reading. Hard must be ‘the cynic’s lips’ from which Mr. Lang’s sportive pen does not ‘dislodge the sneer,’ harder that ‘brow of care’ whose wrinkles refuse to be smoothed by Mr. Lang’s gentle sarcasms and agreeable raillery.... ‘ESSAYS IN LITTLE’ ought to win every vote, and please every class of reader.”—Saturday Review.

“The volume is delightful, and exhibits Mr. Lang’s light and dexterous touch, his broad literary sympathies, and his sound critical instinct to great advantage.”—Times.

“‘The Whitefriars Library’ has begun well. Its first issue is a volume by Mr. Andrew Lang, entitled ‘ESSAYS IN LITTLE.’ Mr. Lang is here at his best—alike in his most serious and his lightest moods. We find him turning without effort, and with equal success, from ‘Homer and the Study of Greek,’ to ‘The Last Fashionable Novel’—on one page attacking grimly the modern newspaper tendency to tittle-tattle (in a ‘Letter to a Young Journalist’), on another devising a bright parody in prose or verse. Mr. Lang is in his most rollicking vein when treating of the once popular Haynes Bayly, the author of ‘I’d be a Butterfly’ and things of that sort. With Bayly’s twaddling verse Mr. Lang is in satiric ecstasies; he revels in its unconscious inanity, and burlesques it repeatedly with infinite gusto.... His tone is always urbane, his manner always bright and engaging. No one nowadays has a style at once so light and so well bred.... It is always pleasant, and frequently delightful.”—Globe.

VOL. II.—SAWN OFF: A Tale of a Family Tree.

By G. MANVILLE FENN.