JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 



BY ARTHUR H. ADAMS. 



GALAHAD JONES. A Tragic Farce. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



With 1 6 full-page Illustrations by Norman Lindsay. 



** Galahad Jones is a middle-aged bank clerk, with a family. One day, en 

 his way home, a letter falls to his feet from the balcony of a house he is passing. 

 It is addressed " To You," and on reading it he discovers that he is requested 

 to meet the writer in the garden of the house at 10 o'clock that night. In a spirit 

 of knight-errantry, he decides to do so, and learns that the writer a young girl- 

 is kept practically in prison by her father, because of her affection for a man of 

 whom he does not approve. The chivalry of Galahad Jojies plunges him into 

 many difficulties, and leads to some very awkward and extremely amusing situations. 



A TOUCH OF FANTASY. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



A Romance For Those who are Lucky Enough to Wear Glasses. 



BY GIRO ALYI. 



THE SAINT'S PROGRESS: A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Translated from the Italian of Giro Alvi by Mary Gibson. 



** Signor Giro Alvi has written a long and most sympathetic novel dealing 

 with the life of one of the noblest spirits of the Christian Church who was perhaps 

 the most extraordinary man of his age The somewhat dissolute early life of the 

 founder of the Franciscan Order is deftly outlined, the young man's innate goodness 

 of heart and kindly disposition being clearly apparent even in the midst of his 

 ostentatious gaiety and sudden impulses. 



BY W. M. ARDAGH. 



THE MAGADA. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Pall Mall Qazette" ' The Magada ' is a store-house of rare and curious learn- 

 ing ... it is a well-written and picturesque story of high adventure and deeds 

 of derring-do." 



Obsirver" The book has admirably caught the spirit of romance." 

 Daily Chronicle " ' The Magada ' is a fine and finely told story, and we 

 congratulate Mr. Ardagh." 



THE KNIGHTLY YEARS. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



%* In " The Knightly Years ' the author of " The Magada " takes us back 

 once more to the Canary Islands in th days of Isabella the Catholic. The tale 

 deals with the aftermath of conquests, whan " the first use the islanders made of 

 their newly -acquired moral code was to apply it to their rulers." The hero of the 

 story is the body-servant ol th profligate Governor of G-omera, whose love affairs 

 become painfully involved with those of his master. In the course of his many 

 adventures we come across Queen Isabella herself, the woman to whom every man 

 was loyal save her own husband; and countless Spanish worthies, seamen, soldiers, 

 governors and priests, all real men, the makers of Empire four hundred years ago. 

 The book abounds in quaint sayings both of Spaniard and native, while the love- 

 making of the simple young hero and his child-wife weaves a pretty thread of 

 romance through the stirring tale of adventure. 



