Messrs. HUTCHINSON & Co’s.
LIBRARY EDITION OF POPULAR NOVELS
BY AUTHORS OF THE DAY.
The Guardian says:—Messrs. Hutchinson’s Popular Library is really a most promising and remarkable sign of the times. Here we have the old-established novel docked of its superfluous spaces and margins, and offered to the reader neatly bound, nicely printed, comfortable to handle, with plenty of matter and interest, and all for the modest sum of 2s. 6d.
The Life and Times of Sir George Grey. K.C.B. By W. L. Rees. With Photogravure Portraits. In demy 8vo. buckram gilt, 2 vols. 32/-. and in one vol. 12/-.
The Daily Telegraph (Leader) says:—“A work of extraordinary interest.”
The Japs at Home. With over 50 Full-Page and other Illustrations. Third edition. In demy 8vo. cloth, 6/-.
The Times says:—“His notes and impressions make capital reading, and we feel on closing the volume that it is not a bad substitute for a visit to Japan.”
Round the Compass in Australia. Demy 8vo. cloth gilt, fully illustrated, 3/6.
The Pall Mall Gazette says:—“Mr. Parker may fairly claim to have produced one of the most readable of recent works on Australia.”
The Cuckoo in the Nest. A Fifth Edition. With Illustrations by G. H. Edwards. In crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 6s.
The Athenæum says:—“Mrs. Oliphant’s most successful novel.”
“I Forbid the Banns.” The Story of a Comedy which was played seriously. Sixth Edition. Cr. 8vo. cloth gilt, 6/-.
The Athenæum says:—“So racy and brilliant a novel.”
Daireen. A Novel. Second Edition. In crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 6/-.
The Tragedy of Ida Noble. With over Forty full-page and smaller Illustrations by Everard Hopkins. In crown 8vo. buckram gilt, gilt top, 6/-.
The Times says:—“Mr. Clark Russell has never written a better story than ‘The Tragedy of Ida Noble.’”
A Singer from the Sea. In crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 5/-.
A Bitter Debt. A Tale of the Black Country. With Illustrations by D. Murray Smith. In cr. 8vo., cloth gilt, 5/-.
The Last Tenant. A Novel. In crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 5/-.
The Globe says:—“In ‘The Last Tenant’ Mr. B. L. Farjeon shows all his old skill as a plot-weaver, and all his usual ingenuity in the choice and arrangement of incidents.... ‘The Last Tenant’ is a capital tale.”
A Wild Proxy. By the Author of “Aunt Anne.” In crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
The Athenæum says:—“Strikingly original, clever, fresh, cynical, epigrammatic, stimulating, picturesque.”
From Clue to Capture. A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories. With numerous Illustrations by Paul Hardy. In crown 8vo., cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
The Fate of Fenella. Fourth Edition. In crown 8vo., cloth gilt, with over 70 Original Illustrations, 3s. 6d.
The Authors are:—Helen Mathers, Justin H. M’Carthy, Mrs. Trollope, A. Conan Doyle, May Crommelin, F. C. Phillips, “Rita,” Joseph Hatton, Mrs. Lovett Cameron, Bram Stoker, Florence Marryat, Frank Danby, Mrs. Edward Kennard, Richard Dowling, Mrs. Hungerford, Arthur A’Beckett, G. Manville Fenn, Jean Middlemass, H. W. Lucy, Clo. Graves, F. Anstey, “Tasma,” Clement Scott, and Adeline Sergeant.
The Academy says:—“An ingenious success.”
Under the Great Seal. By Joseph Hatton, Third Edition. In crown 8vo. cloth, 3/6.
The Daily Telegraph says:—“This thrilling story, every salient incident is more or less tragical.”
Seven Christmas Eves. Being the Romance of a Social Evolution. By Clo. Graves, B. L. Farjeon, Florence Marryat, G. Manville Fenn, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Justin Huntly McCarthy, and Clement Scott. With 28 Original Illustrations by Dudley Hardy. In cr. 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
The Web of the Spider. A Story of New Zealand Adventure. With Frontispiece by Stanley S. Wood. Cr. 8vo. cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
The Times says:—“We are quite unable to give any idea of the thrilling events.... It is magnificent.”
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