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grandchildren. Men try to explain the exodus from the villages by careful enquiry into 

 present conditions : its explanation lies further back in the fear of a possible recurrence 

 of the times when hunger drove working men to steal turnips from the fields. The 

 children of to-day listen, and look upon the land as a cruel step-mother, and flock to the 

 towns rather than be dependent upon her. Here, too, may be read the reason why the 

 labourers in the fields cannot be persuaded that a tax upon corn means a higher wage for 

 labour, with peace and plenty everywhere. They know. 



Besides this, the book records some types only to be found among the agricultural poor 

 of England : strong characters made stronger by the buffetings of fate ; weak men going 

 to the wall ; women, self-dependent, self-respecting, toiling from early morning till late 

 night, and asking only in return that they may have bread enough. 



The Journeys of Antonia. By CHRISTIAN DUNDAS. Crown 

 8vo. [RED CLOTH LIBRARY.] 



This entertaining story is concerned with the adventures of Miss Antonia Bernard, a 

 charming girl who, in the middle of the night, enters the private saloon carriage of a 

 millionaire, having mistaken it for an ordinary first-class carriage, and gets carried off 

 through France. They are both injured in a railway accident, and, while unable to give an 

 account of themselves, are labelled by the authorities as husband and wife. The initial 

 situation thus created is developed by the author in a very amusing manner, the scene 

 shifting to Scotland and then to Italy, a number of types of society men and women being 

 effectively and brilliantly sketched. 



The Romance of the Fountain. By EUGENE LIE- 

 HAMILTON, Author of " Sonnets of the Wingless Hours," "The Lord 

 of the Dark Red Star," etc. Crown Svo, cloth. 



"The Romance of the Fountain " treats in novel form what has justly been called " the 

 most romantic episode of the world's most romantic moment " the pursuit of the Fount 

 of Youth by the Spanish adventurer, Ponce de Leon, at the opening of the Sixteenth 

 Century. It is written in a spirit as frankly fantastic as its subject, and abounds in the 

 picturesque and the marvellous. The love plot is tragically influenced by the all-absorbing 

 craze of the mystical and fanatical hero, who, though far from unlovable, sacrifices what 

 he most dearly loves to the master-dream of his life. 



The Interpreters. By MARGARETTA BYRDE, Author of " The 

 Searchers." Crown Svo. [NEW RED CLOTH LIBRARY.] 



This book, like its predecessor, is an attempt to tell a story of love and life seen in a 

 spiritual atmosphere though there is no connection in character or locality between the 

 two stories. While " The Searchers " represented its dramatis persona as seekers after the 

 divine in life, "The Interpreters" has for its motif the corresponding idea that the 

 divine finds in men and women, through the crossing desires, the experiences and actions 

 of life, revelation and explanation. 



The scene of the story is laid alternately in a West Country town and a mining village 

 in South Wales, and the tale deals with a complicated and difficult moral problem which 

 confronted a man and his wife a problem inevitable from the characters and convictions 

 of the persons concerned, and only to be solved by a tragedy. 



The PrOgreSS of PnSCilla. By LUCAS CLEEVE, Author of 

 "Stolen Waters," "The Children of Endurance," etc., etc. Crown 

 Svo. [RED CLOTH LIBRARY.] 

 The theme of this story bears a certain resemblance to that of the famous " John 



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