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Fiction continued. 



Chilcote, M.P." But the central idea is entirely original, and the plot is worked out on 

 quite differen" lines. The story opens in Philadelphia, where a young man, Herbert 

 Hume, falls in love with Eleanor Van Heuster, a girl who moves in the best society of 

 the city. Hume is rich almost a millionaire but he does not quite belong to Eleanor's 

 world, and has no distinction beyond his wealth. To attract Eleanor's interest and 

 attention he practically assumes another man's personality. Naturally complications 

 arise, and the consequences of the ruse on the heroine and the two heroes form a story 

 which is probably the best thing that Lucas Cleeve has yet done. It grips the reader 

 from the first page to the last. 



The Yarn of Old Harbour Town, A Sea Romance. 



By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author o( " The Romance of a Midship- 

 man," etc., etc. Crown 8vo, cloth. 



Mr. Clark Russell is facile piinceps among living writers of sea romances. His new 

 book is, like his other stories, fresh, healthy, and full of vivid descriptions and exciting 

 incidents. The period is the early years of the nineteenth century. In Old Harbour 

 Town lives, with his daughter Lucy, Captain Acton, a retired sea officer, who has two 

 ships trading to the West Indies. Near by lives his old shipmate and intimate friend, 

 Admiral Sir Charles Lawrence. The admiral has a son who is a brilliant sailor but a 

 wild spendthrift, and who is passionately in love with Lucy Acton. Captain Acton gives 

 the command of one of his ships to Lawrence, who conspires to kidnap Lucy and run 

 away with the vessel. Lucy is carried ofi, but to save herself feigns madness, and her 

 acting is so marvellously fine that she imposes upon her kidnapper. Her father and 

 Admiral Lawrence follow in pursuit, and after many thrilling adventures the story ends 

 with an unexpected but satisfactory denouement. 



By FLORENCE ROOSEVELT. Crown 8vo. 



The Siren's Net. 



[RED CLOTH LIBRARY.] 



This novel of Bohemian'life in Paris tells of the adventures, failures, and achievements 

 of girls studying for an operatic career. The difficulties and risks which they have to 

 face, the charlatanry of teachers, and later the vicissitudes of professional life, are drawn 

 in a very convincing way, many of the events being transcripts of actual fact. 



A Specimen Spinster. By KATE WESTLAKE YEIGH Crown 

 8vo. [RED CLOTH LIBRARY.] 



Shrewd, homely, kind-hearted and very human, Aunt Polly, the " Specimen Spinster," 

 stands out a life-like figure in these pages, and we feel impelled to weep with her over 

 her real troubles, and laugh with her over the humorous figure she is often forced to cut. 

 The incidents of her wooing by an elderly admirer, the parochial tea-party and her own 

 Christmas dinner, exhibit her in a quaintly comic light ; and a further piquancy and 

 charm is given to the tale by the lively niece who bursts upon her household 

 quiet, and the faithful maid-servant who glories in being the worst girl in the 

 neighbourhood 



NEW EIITIONS. Crown 8 vo, cloth. 



Lady Mary of the Dark House. By Mrs. c. N. 



WILLIAMSON. 



The Last Heir. y G. A. HENTY. 



HauntS of Men. By R. W. CHAMBERS. 



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