i6 Mr. Edward Arnold's Aiitiinni Announcements. 



NEW NOVELS, 



HOWARDS END. 



By E. M. FORSTER, 



Author ok 'A Room with a View,' 'The Longest Journey,' etc. 



Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s. 



Readers of Mr. Forster's former books, of ' A Room with a View ' 

 and ' The Longest Journey,' will heartily welcome this fresh work 

 from so facile and felicitious a pen. In ' Howards End' the author 

 thoroughly fulfils the expectations raised by his earlier works, and 

 adds still further to his reputation as a novelist. For the subject of 

 his new story of English social life he has chosen an old Hertford- 

 shire country-house, round which centre the fortunes of that interest- 

 ing group of characters which he handles with that delicate and 

 skilful touch with which his readers are already familiar. Here 

 once again we find the same delightful humour, the same quiet but 

 mordant satire, the flashes of brilliant dialogue to which this author 

 has long accustomed us. A thread of romance runs through the 

 story, from which depend like pearls those clever pen-pictures and 

 exquisite character sketches, in the portrayal of which Mr. Forster 

 has already shown himself so much of an adept. 



THE RETURN. 



By WALTER DE LA MARE. 



Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s. 



' The Return ' is the story of a man suddenly confronted, as if by 

 the caprice of chance, with an ordeal that cuts him adrift from every 

 certain hold he has upon the world immediately around him. He 

 becomes acutely conscious of those unseen powers which to many, 

 whether in reality or in imagination, are at all times vaguely present, 

 haunting life with their influences. In this solitude — a solitude of 

 the mind which the business of everyday life confuses and drives 

 back — he fares as best he can, and gropes his way through his 

 difficulties, and wins his way at last, if not to peace, at least to a 

 clearer and quieter knowledge of self. 



