JOHN LANE'S LIST OF FICTION 

 BY JOHN PARKINSON. 



A REFORMER BY PROXY. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Daily Chronicle. — " For a first it is quite an excellent effort. 



Morning Leaiiei . — "A very promising book." 



Literary World. — "A thoroughly sound, matured piece of work. 



OTHER LAWS. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



*jf* This book is distinctly the outcome of the latest "intellectual" move- 

 ment in novel-writing. The hero, Hawkins, is an African explorer. During a 

 holiday in England he falls in love with and captivates Caroline Blackwood, a 

 woman of strong personality. Circumstances prevent him from entering upon a 

 formal engagement ; and he departs again lor Africa, without proposing marriage. 

 Caroline and Hawkins correspond fitfully for some time; but then a startling 

 combination of events causes Hawkins to penetrate further and further into the 

 interior ; a native village is burned, and a report, based apparently upon fact is 

 circulated of his death. Not until seven months have elapsed is he able to return 

 to E gland. He finds Caroline married to a man who has found her money 

 useful. Here the story, strong and moving throughout, moves steadily to the 

 close, describing delicately and analytically the soul conflict of a man and a 

 woman, sundered and separate, with a yearning for each other's love. 



BY F. J. RANDALL. 



LOVE AND THE IRONMONGER. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Daily Telegraph. — "Since the gay days when Mr. F. Anstey was writing his 

 inimitable series of humourous novels, we can recall no book of purely farcical 

 imagination, so full of excellent entertainment as this first effort of Mr. F. J. 

 Randall. ' Love and the Ironmonger' is certain to be a success." 



Times — " As diverting a comedy of errors as the reader is likely to meet with 

 for a considerable time." 



Mr. Clement Shorter in The Sphere — " I thank the author for a delightful 

 hour's amusement." 



THE BERMONDSEY TWIN. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Pall Mall Gazette. — " Merry and bright farce. The incidents are most deftly 

 handled." 



Westminster Gazette. — "There is a good deal of humour in some of the 

 situations." 



Daily Telegraph. — "Mr. Randall has written a wonderfully clever and 

 thoroughly aniusing humorous novel. The Bermondsey Twin is a notable 

 addition to the ail-too-sparse ranks of novels that are frankly designed to 

 amuse." 



BY HUGH DE SELINCOURT. 



A BOY'S MARRIAGE. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



£w;n';;i,' iVrtwrffrrrf—" Exceedingly realistic . . . but does not give the impres- 

 sion that anything is expatiated upon for the sake of effect. A daring but sincere 

 and simple book. . . . likely to attract a good deal of attention." 



Athenaeum — "The best points in Mr. de Selincourt's novel are his delicacy of 

 treatment and sense of character. . . . He has the making of a fine novelist." 



THE STRONGEST PLUME. Crown 8vo. 6/- 



Academj—" An uncomfortable story for the conventionally minded. It deals 

 a deadly blow to the ordinary accepted notions of the respectable." 



Daily Telegrapfi—'' The story is a very commendable as well as a very inter- 

 esting piece of work." 



Daily Mail—^^ A neat, artistic story." 



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