JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 



BY W. J. LOCKE continued. 



THE BELOVED VAGABOND. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Truth" Certainly it is the most brilliant piece of work Mr. Locke has done. ' 

 Evening Standard" Mr. Locke can hardly fail to write beautifully. He has 

 not failed now." 



SIMON THE JESTER. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



*** The central figure of Mr. Locke's new novel is one Simon de Gex, M.P., 

 who baring met life with a gay and serene philosophy is suddenly called upon to 

 lace Death. This he does gallantly and jests at Death until he discovers to his 

 confusion that Destiny is a greater jester than he. Eventually by surrendering 

 his claims he attains salvation. The heroine is Lola Brandt, an ex-trainer of 

 animals, and an important figure in the story is a dwarf, Professor Anastasius 

 Papadopouloe, who nas a troupe of performing cats. The scene of the novel is 

 laid in London and Algiers. 



THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA WING. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Obserrer" Mr. Locke's best. . . . Clementina Wing and Dr. Quixtus are the 

 two most adorable characters that Mr. Locke has ever brought together in holy 

 wedlock. The phrases are Locke's n^ost debonairly witty." 



THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOL. 6/- 



BY LAURA BOGUE LUFFMAN. 



A QUESTION OF LATITUDE. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



** The author of " A Question of Latitude " takes an English girl from the 

 comfortable stateliness of a country house in the Old Country, and places her in a 

 rough and ready environment in Australia. The girl finds her standard of values 

 undergoing a change. She learns to distinguish between English snobbery and 

 Colonial simplicity and manliness, she also learns how to wash up drehes, and that 

 Australia is not all kangaroos and giant cricketers. The atmosphere of the story is 

 convincing, and there are many vivid pictures of Melbourne life. The book depicts 

 Australia as it really is, its strength and its weakness, its refinement and its 

 vnl irity. 



BY A. NEIL LYONS. 



ARTHUR'S. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Times" Not only a very entertaining and amusing work, but a very kindiy 

 and tolerant work also. Incidentally the work is a mirror of a phase of the low 

 London life of to-day as true as certain of Hogarth's transcripts in the eighteenth 

 century, and far more tender." 



Punch" Mr. Neil Lyons seems to get right at the heart of things, and I 

 confess to a real admiration for this philosopher of the coffee-stall." 



SIXPENNY PIECES. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Pall Mall Gazttte" It is pure, fast, sheer life, salted with a sense of humour." 



Evening Standard-" ' Sixpenny Pieces ' is as good as ' Arthur's,' and that 



is saying a great deal. A book full of laughter and tears and hits innumerable 



that one feels impelled to read aloud. ' Sixpenny Pieces ' would be very hard 



indeed to beat." 



