Part 14

ALMAYER'S FOLLY

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"THIS STARTLING, UNIQUE, SPLENDID BOOK." MR. T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.

"This is a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction.... All the leading characters in the book--Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover--are well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining after effect. There are, too, some admirably graphic passages in the book. The approach of a monsoon is most effectively described.... The name of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago."--Spectator.

THE EBBING OF THE TIDE BY LOUIS BECKE Author of "By Reef and Palm"

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"Mr. Louis Becke wields a powerful pen, with the additional advantage that he waves it in unfrequented places, and summons up with it the elemental passions of human nature.... It will be seen that Mr. Becke is somewhat of the fleshly school, but with a pathos and power not given to the ordinary professors of that school.... Altogether for those who like stirring stories cast in strange scenes, this is a book to be read."--National Observer.

PACIFIC TALES BY LOUIS BECKE With a Portrait of the Author

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"The appearance of a new book by Mr. Becke has become an event of note--and very justly. No living author, if we except Mr. Kipling, has so amazing a command of that unhackneyed vitality of phrase that most people call by the name of realism. Whether it is scenery or character or incident that he wishes to depict, the touch is ever so dramatic and vivid that the reader is conscious of a picture and impression that has no parallel save in the records of actual sight and memory."--Westminster Gazette.

"Another series of sketches of island life in the South Seas, not inferior to those contained in 'By Reef and Palm.'"--Speaker.

"The book is well worth reading. The author knows what he is talking about and has a keen eye for the picturesque."--G. B. BURGIN in To-day.

"A notable contribution to the romance of the South Seas."

T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P., in The Graphic.

PADDY'S WOMAN BY HUMPHREY JAMES

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"Traits of the Celt of humble circumstances are copied with keen appreciation and unsparing accuracy." Scotsman.

"... They are full of indescribable charm and pathos."--Bradford Observer.

"The outstanding merit of this series of stories is that they are absolutely true to life ... the photographic accuracy and minuteness displayed are really marvellous."

Aberdeen Free Press.

"'Paddy's Woman and Other Stories' by Humphrey James; a volume written in the familiar diction of the Ulster people themselves, with PERFECT REALISM AND VERY REMARKABLE ABILITY.... FOR GENUINE HUMAN NATURE AND HUMAN RELATIONS, AND HUMOUR OF AN INDESCRIBABLE KIND, WE ARE UNABLE TO CITE A RIVAL TO THIS VOLUME."

The World.

"For a fine subtle piece of humour we are inclined to think that 'A GLASS OF WHISKY' takes a lot of beating.... In short Mr. Humphrey James has given us a delightful book, and one which does as much credit to his heart as to his head. We shall look forward with a keen anticipation to the next 'writings' by this shrewd, 'cliver,' and compassionate young author."--Bookselling.

CLARA HOPGOOD BY MARK RUTHERFORD EDITED BY REUBEN SHAPCOTT

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(The Third and Cheaper Edition is now ready, Crown 8vo., cloth, 3s. 6d.)

"The writer who goes by the name of Mark Rutherford is not the most popular novelist of his time by any means. There are writers with names which that recluse genius has never heard of, probably, whose stories give palpitations to thousands of gentle souls, while his own are quietly read by no more than as many hundreds. Yet his publisher never announces a new story by the Author of 'Mark Rutherford's Autobiography,' and 'The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,'--which we believe to be one of the most remarkable bits of writing that these times can boast of--without strongly exciting the interest of many who know books as precious stones are known in Hatton Garden.... 'Clara Hopgood' is entirely out of the way of all existing schools of novel-writing.... Had we to select a good illustration of 'Mark's way' as distinguished from the way of modern storytellers in general, we should point to the chapter in which Baruch visits his son Benjamin in this narration. Nothing could be more simple, nothing more perfect."--Pall Mall Gazette.

A FIRST FLEET FAMILY BEING A HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED NARRATIVE OF CERTAIN REMARKABLE ADVENTURES COMPILED FROM THE PAPERS OF SERGEANT WILLIAM DEW, OF THE MARINES