War to the Knife 62

War to the Knife 62

OFF THE HIGH ROAD

 

By ELEANOR C. PRICE.

 

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG DENYS," "IN THE LION'S MOUTH," ETC.

 

 

_ATHENÆUM._--"A pleasant tale."

 

_SPEAKER._--"A charming bit of social comedy, tinged with just a

suspicion of melodrama.... The atmosphere of the story is so bright

and genial that we part from it with regret."

 

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"At once ingenious, symmetrical, and

entertaining.... Miss Price's fascinating romance."

 

_LITERATURE._--"A simple, but very pleasant story."

 

_SPECTATOR._--"The notion of an orphan heiress, the daughter of an

Earl, and the cynosure of two London seasons, flying precipitately

from her guardians, who are endeavouring to force her into a match

with a man she detests, and hiding herself under an assumed name in

a remote rural district of the Midlands, is an excellent motive in

itself, and gains greatly from the charm and delicacy of Miss Price's

handling."

 

_ACADEMY._--"A quiet country book in the main, with more emotion than

action, and continuous interest."

 

_DAILY MAIL._--"One of the sweetest and most satisfying love stories

that we have read for many weeks past. To read _Off the High Road_ is

as mentally bracing as an actual holiday among the rural delights of

the farm, the orchard, and the spinney, in which the scenes of the

novel are so refreshingly set."

 

_GUARDIAN._--"Is the story of a summer in the life of a high-spirited

and very charming heiress.... The book has a fresh open-air

atmosphere that is decidedly restful."

 

_BLACK AND WHITE._--"An admirable specimen of the genus 'light

story.' Miss Eleanor C. Price tells her story with a gay good humour

which is infectious. We are not asked to think, only to allow

ourselves to be interested and amused.... We feel grateful to Miss

Price for her bright well-written book. The girl of the mysterious

advertisement is a charming character."

 

_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"A decidedly attractive little book, with a

pleasing atmosphere of green fields, orchards, and wild-rose hedges."

 

 

 

 

Crown 8vo. 6s.

 

_Forty-third Thousand_

 

THE DAY'S WORK

 

By RUDYARD KIPLING

 

 

CONTENTS

 

THE BRIDGEBUILDERS--A WALKING DELEGATE--THE SHIP THAT FOUND

HERSELF--THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS---THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP

SEA--WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR--007--THE MALTESE CAT--BREAD UPON THE

WATERS--AN ERROR OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION--MY SUNDAY AT HOME--THE

BRUSHWOOD BOY

 

_ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE._--"This new batch of Mr. Kipling's short

stories is splendid work. Among the thirteen there are included at

least five of his very finest.... Speaking for ourselves, we have

read _The Day's Work_ with more pleasure than we have derived from

anything of Mr. Kipling's since the _Jungle Book_.... It is in the

Findlaysons, and the Scotts, and the Cottars, and the 'Williams,'

that Mr. Kipling's true greatness lies. These are creations that make

one feel pleased and proud that we are also English. What greater

honour could there be to an English writer?"

 

_TIMES._--"The book, take it altogether, will add to Mr. Kipling's

high reputation both on land and by sea."

 

_DAILY NEWS._--"They have all his strength."

 

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"If _The Day's Work_ will not add to the author's

reputation in this kind of work, which, indeed, might be difficult,

it at all events will not detract from it. There is no lack of spirit

and power; the same easy mastery of technical details; the same broad

sympathy with the English-speaking race, wherever their life-tasks

may lie. The style is throughout Kipling's own--terse, nervous, often

rugged, always direct and workmanlike, the true reflection of Mr.

Kipling's own genius."

 

_MORNING POST._--"The book is so varied, so full of colour and life

from end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories

will lay it down till they have read the last."

 

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"There are the same masterful grip and wielding

of words that are almost surprised to find themselves meaning so

much; the same buoyant joy in men who 'do' things."

 

_ACADEMY._--"With sure instinct he labels the volume _The Day's

Work_. That is just what these tales are--the day's work of a great

imaginative and observant writer, of a master craftsman who, when

he has no _magnum opus_ on hand, rummages in drawers, peers into

cupboards, for notions noted and not forgotten, for beginnings laid

aside to be finished in their proper season."

 

_SCOTSMAN._--"A fine book, one that even a dull man will rejoice to

read."

 

 

 

 

Crown 8vo. 6s.

 

A DRAMA IN SUNSHINE

 

By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL

 

 

CONTENTS

 

THE PROLOGUE

 

CHAPTER I.--SAUSAGES AND PALAVER

 

" II.--ILLUMINATION

 

" III.--WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH

 

" IV.--CALAMITY CAÑON

 

" V.--SPECULATIONS

 

" VI.--WHICH CONTAINS A MORAL

 

" VII.--OF BLOOD AND WATER

 

" VIII.--WHICH ENDS IN FLAMES

 

" IX.--"IS WRIT IN MOODS AND FROWNS AND

WRINKLES STRANGE"

 

" X.--THE DAUGHTERS OF THEMIS

 

_LITERATURE._--"It has the joy of life in it, sparkle, humour,

charm.... All the characters, in their contrasts and developments,

are drawn with fine delicacy; and the book is one of those few which

one reads again with increased pleasure."

 

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"A story of extraordinary interest.... Mr.

Vachell's enthralling story, the dénouement of which worthily crowns

a literary achievement of no little merit."

 

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"The tale is well told. Besides more than one

scene of vividly dramatic force, there is some really excellent

drawing of American character."

 

_WORLD._--"Curious and engrossing.... The wife of the man chiefly

concerned is a finely presented character, and at the close the

author achieves the beautiful and the true."

 

_ACADEMY._--"A virile and varied novel of free life on the Pacific

Coast of America."

 

_ATHENÆUM._--"It is a story which the English reader will greet with

pleasure.... The book is good reading to the end."

 

_SPECTATOR._--"Full of colour, incident, and human interest, while

its terse yet vivid style greatly enhances the impressiveness of the

whole."

 

_SCOTSMAN._--"Showing the grasp of a powerful hand on every page....

It is impossible in a brief sketch to give a grasp of all the threads

in this complicated story, but they are unravelled with so much skill

that the reader feels that everything happens because it must. The

characterization, generally speaking, is masterly, and the dialogue

is clever. The story increases in power and pathos from chapter to

chapter."

 

_DAILY MAIL._--"Full of spirit as well as of all-round literary

excellence.... The scenes are vivid, the passions are strong, the