Mr. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements. 17 
THE LITTLE GRAY MAN. 
By JANE WARDLE, 
AvruHor oF ‘ THE Pasque Flower,’ ‘MarGery PiGgon,’ ETc. 
Crown 8vo., 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 Miss Wardleherself 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—whois 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 SAVILE, 
Autuor or ‘Sgexers,’ ‘THe Desert VENTURE,’ ETC. 
Crown 8vo., 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 find here a fine 
open-air tale of modern adventure, with interesting clean-cut 
characters, and some really full-blooded villainy, 
