16 Mr. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements. 
NEW NOVELS. 
HOWARDS END. 
By E. M. FORSTER, 
AuTuHor oF ‘A Room WITH A View,’ ‘THE LoncEsT JouRNgEY,’ 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 apen. 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 8v0., 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. 
