METHUEN'S POPULAR NOVELS 3 



Mr. Pett Ridge's new novel, an animated story of London life, 

 concerns a girl sent out to service by her stepmother. Taking the 

 management of her career into her own hands, and holding the 

 reins, she goes first to a house on the north side of Regent's Park, 

 afterwards to the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square ; and her adven- 

 tures in both situations, her acquaintances, and the person to whom 

 she is devoted, are described in Mr. Pett Ridge's brightest manner. 



THE ROYAL ROAD : Being the Story of 

 the Life, Death, and Resurrection 

 of Edward Hankey of London 



By ALFRED OLLIVANT, Author of 'Owd Bob.' Crown 



8vo, 6s. 



In the pages of this book the reader follows the courageous spirit of 

 a working man down the alley of life. We hear his laughter ; share 

 his joys ; and watch the heroic struggle of his soul against the circum- 

 stance that is oppressing him. The book, remorseless in its representa- 

 tion of things as they are, is strong in hope : for it finds its inspiration 

 in the Love that shall some day conquer the world. It is a story for 

 all who seek to succour our England in her distress. A stern book, it 

 is to those who read aright a joyful one. For it is a prophecy of dawn. 



SALLY 



By DOROTHEA CONYERS, Author of 'Two Impostors 

 and Tinker.' Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 

 A hunting novel of Irish life. The scene is laid in the wilds of 

 Connemara, where a man suffering from melancholia starts hunting 

 over the mountains and the bogs. A seaside lodge close to him is 

 taken by some strangers, and the plot of the book then turns on the 

 lonely man, who has not spoken for years save when obliged to, being 

 charmed from his loneliness by Sally Stannard, and the subsequent 

 complications which ensue betwixt her and her various lovers. 



OLIVIA MARY 



By E. MARIA ALBANESI, Author of ' The Glad Heart.' 



Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



In this, her first new novel to be published since The Glad Heart, 

 Madame Albanesi strikes new ground. Although full of able and 

 sympathetic characterization and that elusive charm which belongs to 

 all her books, this story is unlike any that she has yet written. The 

 author deals with a problem which is the outcome of emotions at once 

 simple, even ordinary, and yet at the same time profound and most 

 touching. 



THE BIG FISH 



By H. B. MARRIOTT WATSON, Author of c Alise of 



Astra.' Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



This strange tale of adventure in the mountains of Peru has a 

 certain basis in fact. ' The Big Fish ' is the name by which the lost 

 treasure of the Incas is known, and the story describes the search 

 for it, which opens in a London auction room and, after many tragic 

 adventures, ends in the lonely mountains in a manner which neither 

 of the seekers had anticipated, but with which both are satisfied. 



