JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 



BY ALLEN ARNOT. 



THE DEMPSEY DIAMONDS; A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



*,* This is the story of the secret transference of a fortune; and the scene is 

 laid mainly in two old houses in two Scottish Tillages, one on the east coast, cne 

 buried in midland woods. The tale is of the old slow days of twenty years ago 

 belore the tyranny of speed began, but it is swayed throughout and borne to it? 

 close by the same swift pa&sions that sway the stories of men and women to-day. 

 and will sway th^m till the end of time. 



BY GERARD BENDALL. 



PROGRESS OF MRS. CRIPPS-MIDDLEMORE. Cr. 8vo. 6/- 



Author of Mrs. Jones's Bonnet," " The Old Home," etc. 

 ,* This book deals with the vagaries of a middle-class family suddenly 

 enriched. The progress of Mrs. Cripps-Middlemore is under the direction of various 

 ecclesiastics, each revered and beloved, from small ihopkeeping and dissent to 

 papacy and the peerage. The clever precocious children of the family attempt to 

 emulate in the higher spheres of literature and art the lemarkable financial success 

 of the capable father. Mr. Cripps-Middlemore's greatest success is thai he carries 

 his family with him. He entertains lavishly at his marble palace at Hampstead. 

 1 He was in many respects a generous, just, honourable and sincere man. His 

 ancillary adventures I consider unfortunate," is the Rev. Moore Curtis' delightfully 

 phrased post-mortem tribute. Mr. Bendall has a wicked wit which, with his ability 

 to assume the attitude of the interested looker-on almost amounting to inspiration, 

 stamps him as a humourist. 



BY PAUL BERTRAM 



THE SHADOW OF POWER. Third Thousand. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



** This is a Romance of the days when the Duke of Alva held the Netherlands 

 fast in bis iron grasp, and the power of King and Church cast its shadow over the 

 land, sometimes over those even who were chosen to uphold it. There was i>o 

 hope of progress and the most enlightened could only smile grimly, sceptically 

 upon the errors of the age. Such also was the man whose story is here told; 

 proud, da.ring, ruthless, like all the lieutenants of the great Duke yet lifted by 

 his education above the blind fanaticism of his time, seeking truth and freedom, 

 ;ike his great contemporary the Prince of Orange. The publisher claims for " The 

 Shadow of Power " that it is one of the most powerful historical romances ever 

 submitted to him. 



Time* -" Few readers have taken up ' The Shadow of Power ' and come face to 

 tare with Don Jaimie de Jorquera, will lay it down or refuse him a hearing until 

 the book and his adventures come to an end." 



Dail-; Mail" This is a bock that cuts deep into nature and experience. We 

 commer it most heartily to discerning readers, and hope it may take its place 

 with tht best historical novels." 



BY HORACE BLEACKLEY. 



A GENTLEMAN OF THE ROAD. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Author of "Ladies Fair and Frail," etc. 



*,* As the title implies, this is a very gallant novel: an eighteenth century 

 story of abductions, lonely inns, highwaymen and hangmen. Two men are in Jove 

 with Margaret Crofton: Colonel Thornley, an old villain, and Dick Maynard, who 

 is as youthful as he is virtuous. Thornley nearly succeeds in compelling Margaret 

 to marry him, for he ba.s in his possession a document sadly incriminating to her 

 father. Maynard settles Thornley, but himself in his turn is " up against it." He 

 is arrested for complicity in the highway thefts of a glad but graceless young 

 ruffian. Both are sentenced to death, but a great effort is made to get them 

 reprieved. It would be a pity to divulge the climax cunningly contrived by Mr. 

 Blea-ckley, save to say that the book ends in a scene of breathless interest before 

 the Tyburn gallows. 



