ANNOUNCEMENTS 



Recent 6s* Fiction* 



The Divine Fire, by May Sinclair, Author of Two 

 Sides of a Question^ Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, 

 etc. 



" My Nautical Retainer writes : One is apt to despair of English 

 criticism when a novel like May Sinclair's The Divine Fire (Con- 

 stable) goes almost unregarded. Possibly, our conductors are 

 themselves guided by established reputations : and Miss Sinclair's 

 was yet to make. She was not Mrs. Humphry Ward, for instance, 

 and she was not Mr. Henry James. Yet the one might well envy 

 the delightful humour that here tempers a very perfect sincerity, 

 and the other might admire how an analytic subtlety, as deUcate as 

 his own, could avoid obscurity and a too laboured finesse. Miss 

 Sinclair's intuition — for experience would never have embraced such 

 a diversity of types — is something more than feminine. . . . Miss 

 Sinclair is always quietly sure of herself. That is why she will not 

 be hurried, but moves through her gradual scheme with so leisured 

 a serenity ; why her style, fluent and facile, never forces its natural 

 eloquence ; why her humour plays with a diffused light over all her 

 work and seldom needs the advertisement of scintillating epigrams. 

 Judged by almost every standard to which a comedy like this 

 should be referred, I find her book the most remarkable that I 

 have read for many years" — Mr, Owen Seaman in Punch. 



Veranilda, by George Gissing, Author of The 

 Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, New Grub 

 Street, etc. With a Prefatory Note by 

 Frederic Harrison. [3rd Edition. 



" Gissing's maturest, latest and most deliberately conceived 

 book . . . the book that lay nearest his heart during the last years 

 of his life."— Mr. H. G. Wells in the Sphere. 



For six months the best selling book in the United States. 



In the Bishop's Carriage, by Miriam Michelson. 

 Illustrated. 



" Everyone is reading or wanting to read ' In the Bishop's Carriage.' " 



Acadetny and Literature. 



Paths of Judgment, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, 

 Author of The Dull Miss Auchinard, etc. 



" The novel shows insight of an unusual order." — Speaker. 

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