| OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG |
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"'Peccavi' is at once the most serious and the strongest novel that has issued from Mr. Hornung's engaging pen.... A striking and admirable story."—The Spectator.
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| PECCAVI |
| 12mo, $1.50 |
| "It must be said that the erring parson is a fine figure, standing aloof, yet never passive in his awful solitude. He works out a grand and unselfish salvation in an heroic way."—The Athenæum. |
| "One of the strongest novels published this autumn. In it Mr. Hornung has taken a long step forward in his work as a novelist.... Here at last is a novel of power and purpose.... In vividness of writing the book is remarkable."—The Outlook. |
| "One of the strongest and most touching of recent novels. Describes the moral fall of an English clergyman and his strange, brave, victorious struggle to win back public respect and confidence."—The Congregationalist. |
| Charles Scribner's Sons, New York |
| OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG |
| The |
| Amateur Cracksman |
| 30th Thousand. 12mo, $1.25. The titles of |
| the stories are: |
| I. The Ides of March V. Wilful Murder |
| II. A Costume Piece VI. Nine Points of the Law |
| III. Gentlemen and Players VII. The Return Match |
| IV. Le Premier Pas VIII. The Gift of the Emperor |
| "For sheer excitement and inventive genius the burglarian exploits of 'The Amateur Cracksman' carry off the palm. Raffles is as distinct and convincing a creation as Sherlock Holmes."—The Bookman. |
| "Raffles is amazing; his resource is perfect; he talks like a gentleman and acts like one, except when occupied with pressing business in another man's house, at midnight, and naturally he has a 'cool nerve,' a nerve positively arctic. They all have nerves like that, these Raffleses."—New York Tribune. |
| Dead Men Tell No Tales |
| A Novel. 12mo, $1.25 |
| "In this novel, as in the previous ones from Mr. Hornung's pen, there is a wealth of well-handled incidents. It is story-telling of the most direct kind and holds the attention from the first page to the last. Mr. Hornung seems to us in each succeeding book from his pen to gain in confidence and authority, and we do not hesitate to place him among the first of the comparatively new writers who must be reckoned with."—Literature. |
| OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG |
| The Rogue's March |
| A Romance. 12mo, $1.50 |
| "Mr. Hornung has succeeded admirably in his object: his Australian scenes are a veritable nightmare; they sear the imagination, and it will be some time before we get Hookey Simpson, the clank of the chains, and the hero's degradation off our mind."—London Saturday Review. |
| "Vividly and vigorously told."—London Academy. |
| Each 12mo, $1.25: |
| My Lord Duke |
| "Mr. Hornung is a natural humorist, and has the art of telling a story."—Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. |
| "It is pleasant to turn to a real story by a real story-writer. Such is 'My Lord Duke.' ... Its story is its own, both in plot and in characterization. It is a capital little novel."—The Nation. |
| Young Blood |
| "Whether Lowndes be entirely realized or not does not much matter; the conception of him is already a distinction. He is an adventurer of genius, but not built on the usual lines.... And his vitality is inexhaustible. We leave him, not without a stain upon his character, but with considerable regret in our minds."—The Bookman. |
| OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG |
| Some Persons |
| Unknown |
| "In about half-a-dozen cases the scene is laid in Australia, and the dramatic and tragic aspects of Colonial life are treated by Mr. Hornung with that happy union of vigor and sympathy which has stood him in such good stead in his earlier novels."—London Spectator. |
| In the Ivory Series. Each 16mo, 75 cents: |
| The Boss of Taroomba |
| "There are passages in E. W. Hornung's latest story, 'The Boss of Taroomba,' which remind us by their vividness and fantastic quality of Stevenson in some of his South Sea Island tales.... The hero is an uncommon creation even for fiction."—Chicago Times-Herald. |
| A Bride from the Bush |
| "Mr. E. W. Hornung is one of the most successful delineators of Bush life."—Chicago Tribune. |
| Irralie's Bushranger |
| "A capital little story of Australian love and adventure. There is no flagging in the press and stir of the story."—The Nation. |
| Charles Scribner's Sons, New York |
Transcriber's Notes:
All apparent printer's errors retained.
Page 23, "blackfellow" and "black fellow" both present in text
Page 45, "succesful" retained from original text
Page 48, "its" retained from original text
Page 175, "outry" retained from original text
Some inconsistency in hyphenating words:
bare-back and bareback both present in text
coo-ee and cooee both present in text
foot-print and footprint both present in text
salt-bush and saltbush both present