Mr. Edward Arnold's Aulumn Announcements. 17 



THE LITTLE GRAY MAN. 



By JANE WARDLE, 



Author ok 'The Pasque Flower,' 'Makcjerv Pk^kon,' ktc. 



Crown Svo., cloth. 6s. 



The writer is one of the very few present-day novelists who have 

 consistently followed up the aim they originally set themselves — that 

 of striking a mean between the Realist and the Romanticist. In her 

 latest novel, ' The Little Gray Man,' which M iss Wardle herself believes 

 to contain the best work she has so far produced, it will be found 

 that she has as successfully avoided the bald one-sidedness of mis- 

 called ' Realism ' on the one hand, as the sloppy sentimentality of the 

 ordinary 'Romance' on the other. At the same time, ' The Little 

 Gray Man' contains both realism and romance in full measure, in the 

 truer sense of both words. The scheme of the book is in itself novel, 

 the intrigue being set out in the words of one of the characters — a 

 supremely selfish, worthless young man — who is as little in sympathy 

 with the nobler-minded Gentry, the unconventional ' hero,' as with 

 the arch-villain Mandevil himself. The self-revealing touches by 

 which Carfax is made to lay bare the worthlessness of his own aims 

 make up an extraordinary vivid character, while at the same time 

 acting as foil to the others with whom he is brought in contact. 

 No less vivid are the studies of Gentry himself, of the two brothers, 

 round whose life-long feud the plot centres, and of Joan, their 

 daughter and niece. A pleasant love-interest runs through the 

 story, in conjunction with an exciting ' plot.' 



THE PURSUIT. 



By FRANK SA\ILE, 



Author of 'Skkkers,' ' The Desert Venture,' etc. 



Crown 8w., cloth. 6s. 



That the risk of being kidnapped, to which their great riches 

 exposes multi-millionaires, is a very real one, is constantly being 

 reaffirmed in the reports that are published of the elaborate pre- 

 cautions many of them take to preserve their personal liberty. In its 

 present phase, where there is the great wealth on one side and a 

 powerful gang — or rather syndicate — of clever rascals on the other, 

 it possesses many characteristics appealing to those who enjoy a 

 good thrilling romance. Mr. Savile has already won his spurs in 

 this field, but his new tale should place him well in the front ranks 

 of contemporary romancers. The protagonists of 'The Pursuit' 

 are Anglo-American, with a background of Moors, and the action is 

 laid round the person of the little grandson of ' the richest man in 

 America.' It would not be fair to readers to adumbrate the plot 

 further, but they may rest assured that they will tind here a hne 

 open-air tale of modern adventure, with interesting clean-cut 

 characters, and some really full-blooded villainy. 



