JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 



BY ESSEX SMITH 



WIND ON THE HEATH. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



%* No paragraph or descriptive note can give an idea of Miss Essex Smith's 

 story. It depends upon style, psychology, woodland atmosphere, and more than 

 anything else upon originality ol outlook. It will make a direct appeal to that 

 public that has a taste for the unusual. There is underlying it a tone o! passion, 

 the passion of a fantastic Richard Jefferies. 



BY HERMANN SUDERMANN. 



THE MASTERPIECE (Das Hohe Lied). Crown 8vo. 6/- 



A new Translation by Beatrice Marshall. 



** The first English translation of this work, published under the title ol 

 " The Song of Songs," proved to be too American for the taste ol the British 

 public, and was eventually dropped. But it was felt that the work was too great 

 an one not to be represented in the English language, and accordingly this entirely 

 new translation lias been made, which it is hoped will fairly represent the wonderful 

 original without unduly offending the susceptibilities of the British public. la 

 this colossal novel, Sudermann has made a searching and masterly study of feminine 

 frailty. The character and career of Lily Czepanck are depicted with such pitiless 

 power and unerring psychological insight, that the portrait would be almost 

 intolerable in its realism, if it were not for its touches of humour and tenderness. 

 In these pages too may be found some of Sudermann's most characteristic and 

 charming passages descriptive of country life, while his pictures of Berlin Society 

 in all its phases, the glimpses he gives us into what goes on beneath the tinsel, 

 spick and span surface of the great modern capital are drawn with Tolstoyan 

 vigour and colour. 



THE INDIAN LILY and other Stories. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Translated by Ludwig- Lewisohn, M.A. 



*,* A series of characteristic stories by the great German Master which exhibit 

 his art in every phase. Sudermann is chiefly known in this country as a writer 

 ol novels and of plays, but this volume will place him in a new light for English 

 readers as a writer of short stories of the first rank. In lact he may with justice 

 be termed the German Maupassant. 



BY MARCELLE TINAYRE. 



THE SHADOW OF LOVE. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Translated from the French by A. R. Allinson, M.A. 

 ** Of the newer French novelists Marcelle Tinayre is perhaps the best known. 

 Her work has been crowned by the French Academy, and s.-ie possesses a very large 

 public in Europe and in America. The story deals with a girl's love and a heroic 

 sacrifice dictated by love. " The Shadow of Love " is a book of extraordinary 

 jiower, uncompromising in its delineation of certain hard, some might say repulsive 

 facts of lite, yet instinct all through with an exquisitely tender and beautiful 

 passion of human interest and human sympathy. 



BY GEORGE YANE. 



THE LIFTED LATCH; A Novel. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



%* " The Lifted Latch " is a story ol strong situations. The hero is the son 

 of an Italian attache and a girl ol whose frailty he takes advantage. The mother 

 decides to hide her shame by handing the child over to a loster-mother together 

 with a sum ol money for its maintenance. When the boy grows up he becomes by 

 a curious sequence of events and circumstances reunited to his parents, and a 

 series of plots and counterplots follow. The scene is set principally in diplomatic 

 circles in Rome. 



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