The Three Chances. 



By the Author of "The Fair Carew." 



** This novel is of a more solid texture than most of its con- 

 temporaries. It is full of good sense, good thought, and good 

 writing." — Statesman. (357) 



Lilliesleaf. By Mrs. Oliphant. 



"Mrs. Oliphant is one of the most admirable of our lady novelists. 

 In her works there are always to be found high principle, good taste, 

 sense, and refinement. The grace of her style, its tranquility, its un- 

 studied but by no means negligent elegance, have a peculiar charm." — 

 Post. (336) 



Panl Ferroll. 



** We have seldom read so wonderful a romance. We can find no 

 fault in it as a work of art. It leaves us in admiration, almost in awe, 

 of the powers of its author." — New Quarterly. 



" The art displayed in presenting Paul Ferroll throughout the story 

 is beyond all praise." — Examiner. (352) 



Play or Pay: a Novelette. 



By Hawley Smart, 

 Author of " Bound to Win," *' Cecile," etc. 



** Novelettes are rather more in Captain Smart's way than novels, 

 and in the sporting novelette he is especially at home. In ' Play or 

 Pay ' we are amused and interested from the first page to the last, and 

 we need ask nothing more from a book of this kind. Naturally it does 

 not deal with the more serious side of life, nor is the society to which 

 we are introduced altogether of the best style. But, though the tone of 

 Captain Smart's books may be fast, it is never vulgar and seldom very 

 slangy." — Saturday Review. (375) 



Doctor Thorne. By Anthony TroUope. 



*'The fact that this is the 12th edition of this popular and delightful 

 story is a proof of the favourable reception that it has met with amongst 

 the novel-reading public. It is very rare in these days of rapid pro- 

 duction that a work of fiction meets with such abundant success. We 

 are not surprised at it, for there is a great charm in the manly honesty, 

 the perseverance, the indifference to professional etiquette, and above 

 all, in the affection of the doctor for his niece Mary Thorne, which 

 must make him a favourite with every reader. The two young people 

 are models of faithfulness, and in the end everything comes right, as it 

 should come." — Western Daily Mercury. (85) 



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