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Mr. Edward Arnold’s List of New Books 
LONDON SIDE-LIGHTS. 
By CLARENCE ROOK. 
With Frontispiece , Crown Svo. 6 s. 
The author of these entertaining sketches has taken his place as 
an ordinary Londoner who is a journalist as well. He has walked 
and ridden about London with pennies in his pocket, eyes in his 
head, and a brain behind the eyes. He has found secrets of London 
hotels, he has pierced the problem of London traffic, he has been to 
queer boxing contests, and he has been present at the birth of the 
popular song. He has sat in the gallery of the House of Commons, 
and in the newspaper office that cuts and carves its speeches. And 
he knows the story of the famous block in Piccadilly. He has found, 
too, the problem of the London woman who is alone. The problem 
also of those London children whom, the Salvation Army rescues. 
And at the end comes the 4 Bath of Silence,’ which gives the City 
peace. 
THE DOWAGER OF JERUSALEM. 
U IRomance in jfour Bets. 
By REGINALD FARRER, 
Author of ‘In Old Ceylon/ ‘My Rock Garden,’ etc. 
Crown 8 vo. 3s. 6d. net. 
CHRONICLES OF SERVICE LIFE IN 
MALTA. 
By Mrs. ARTHUR STUART. 
Illustrated . Crown 8 vo. 6s. 
Fiction is always the more interesting the more closely it is drawn 
from life, and these sketches of naval and military society in Malta, 
depicted in the form of stories, come from the pen of a lady who 
is intimately acquainted with the life of which she writes. The 
names of some of the stories, such as ‘ The Temptation of the 
Engineer,’ ‘ The Red Parasol,’ 4 The Prince, the Lady, and the 
Naval Captain,’ will perhaps be as good an indication as can be 
given of the character of the book. It will doubtless appeal especially 
to those familiar with society at naval and military stations, while the 
fact of its having a specific milieu should in no way detract from 
its general interest. ‘Plain Tales from the Hills’ did not appeal 
only to the Anglo-Indian. 
