THE MODERN FICTION LIBRARY Continued 



The Wheels of Chance 



By H. G. WELLS 



" Mr. Wells is beyond question the most plausible romancer of 

 the time. . . . He unfolds a breathlessly interesting story of 

 battle and adventure, but all the time he is thinking of what our 

 vaunted strides in mechanical invention may come to mean. 

 . . . Again and again the story, absorbing as it is, brings the 

 reader to a reflective pause." ... The New York Tribune. 



The Common Lot 



By ROBERT HERRICK 



A story of present-day life, intensely real in its picture of a 

 young architect whose ideals in the beginning were, at their 

 highest, aesthetic rather than spiritual. He has been warped 

 and twisted by sordid commercial strife until " the spirit of 

 greed has eaten him through and through." Then comes the 

 revelation of himself, in a disaster due in part to his own 

 connivance in "graft," and his gradual regeneration. The in- 

 fluence of his wife's standards on his own and on their family life 

 is finely brought out. It is an unusual novel of great interest. 



Mr. Ingleside 



By E. V. LUCAS 



Mr. E. V. Lucas early achieved enviable fame and became well 

 known as the clever author of delightful books of travel, and 

 charming anthologies of prose and verse. 



When "Over Bemerton's," his first novel, was published, his 

 versatility and charm as a writer of fiction stood fully revealed. 

 He displayed himself as an intellectual and amusing observer of 

 life's foibles with a hero characterized, says the Independent, by 

 " inimitable kindness and humor." 



In " Mr. Ingleside " he has again written a story of high ex- 

 cellence, individual and entertaining. With its quiet calm 

 reflection, its humorous interpretation of life and its delightful 

 situations and scenes it reminds one of the literary excursions 

 and charms of the leaders of the early Victorian era. 



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