JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 



BY F. INGLIS POWELL. 



THE SNAKE. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



%* For countless generations the soul of Peasant India has been steeped in 

 weird, fantastic superstitions, some grotesque, some loathsome, all strangely 

 fascinating. Though the main theme of this story ie the unhappy love of a. 

 beautiful, evil woman, and the brutal frankness with which she writes of her 

 uncontrolled passions in her diary, yet the whole tale hinges on some of the most 

 gruesome superstitions of the East. This book should appeal to all who take an 

 interest in the strange beliefsnot of the educated classes but of the simple- 

 minded and ignorant peasants of Behar. 



BY F. J. RANDALL. 



LOVE AND THE IRONMONGER. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Daily 2'tityraph " Since the gay days when Mr. F.- Anstey was writing his 

 inimitable series of humourous novels, we can recall no book of purely farcical 

 imagination so lull of excellent entertainment as this first effort of Mr. F. J. 

 Randa.ll. ' Lore and the Ironmonger ' is certain to be a success." 



Time*" As diverting a comedy of errors as the reader is likely to meet with 

 for a considerable time." 



Mr. CLEMENT SHORTER, in The Sphere-" I thank the author for a delightful 

 hour's amusement." 



THE BERMONDSEY TWIN. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



%* A humourous story of the reappearance of a twin brother, who is supposed 

 to be dead. Prosperous, respected, and well satisfied with himself, a suburban 

 tradesman is contemplating matrimony and the realisation of his ambitious, when 

 the twin brother appears. He is thrown into a state of panic, for not only is 

 his fortune thus reduced by half and his marriage prospects endangered, but the 

 twin is to all appearance a disreputable character, whose existence threatens to 

 mar the tradesman's respectability. The good man's attempts to hide this 

 undesirable brother make amusing reading, and the pranks of the unwelcome twin 

 serve to complicate matters, for the brothers are so much alike as to be easily 

 mistaken one for the other. The new arrival is really a man of integrity, his 

 depravity being assumed as a joke. Having played the farce out he is about to 

 " confess," when the tables are turned upon him by accident, and he is forced to 

 pay heavily for his fun in a series of humiliating adventures. 



BY HUGH DE SELINCOURT. 



A FAIR HOUSE. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Author of " A Boy's Marriage," ''The Way Things Happen," "The 

 Strongest Plume." 



%* The outstanding idea of Mr. Hugh de Selincourt's new novel is the 

 possibility of absolute love and confidence between father and daughter. It is the 

 main thread of the story and all the incidents are subordinated to it. The book 

 falls naturally into three sections. The first opens with the birth of the daughter 

 and the death of the mother, the father's utter despair, until an idea comes to 

 him, to make the child his masterpiece and to see how much one human being can 

 mean to another. The second deals with the growth of the child from five to 

 fifteen. In the third, the girl becomes a woman. Her first experience of love is 

 unhappy and threatens to destroy the confidence between father and daughter. 

 But she is enabled to throw herself heart and soul into stage-work, and in the 

 excitement of work she finds herself again. And the end of the book leave? her 

 with the knowledge that one love does not necessarily displace another, and that a 

 second, happier love has only strengthened the bond between her father and 

 herself. 



