JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 



BY MARGARET WESTRUP. 



ELIZABETH'S CHILDREN. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Daily Teltgraph" The book is charming . . . the author . . . has a delicate 

 fanciful touch, a charming imagination . . . skilfully suggests character and 

 morris ... is bright and witty, and writes about children with exquisite know- 

 ledge and sympathy." 



HELEN ALLISTON. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Pall Mail Gazttte " The book has vivacity, fluency, colour, more than a touch 

 of poetry and passion. ... We shall look forward with interest to future work 

 by the author of ' Helen Alliston.' " 



THE YOUNG O'BRIENS. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Saturday Review" Delightful . . . the author treats them (the Young 

 O'Briens) very skilfully." 



PHYLLIS IN MIDDLEWYCH. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



% It is some years since " Elizabeth's Children " was published and 

 Immediately ran through edition after edition. In her new book the author shows 

 that same sympathetic touch and sure knowledge ol the real child that stamped 

 " Elizabeth's Children " as a live book. The doings and misdoings of Phyllis are 

 told with understanding and with .iumorous and deft touches the little 

 idiosyncracies oi the Middlewichites are admirably hit off. 



ELIZABETH IN RETREAT. Crown Svo. 6/- 



BY EDITH WHERRY. 



THE RED LANTERN : Being the Story of the Goddess of the 



Red Light. Crown Svo. 6/- 



*.* The most exciting novel of recent years. It deals with the Rebellion in 

 China and is of extraordinary anticipation. Sun Yat Sen is vividly depicted under 

 the name ot Sam Wang in Miss Edith Wherry's startling novel. 



BY IDA WILD, 



ZOE THE DANCER. Crown Svo. 6/- 



,* The scene of the story is laid in Brussels, where Zoe, little more than a 

 child, shows her remarkable aptitude for danciug. Her wonderful yellow hair 

 secures for her a position in a hairdresser's window to the constant delight of the 

 good citizens. Cbaice leads to her adoption of dancing as a profession. The book 

 Is full ol comedy and tragedy, and yet it is the charm and originality of the telling 

 which holds the reader throughout. 



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