A Devotee Part 14

'One of the best stories of the season.'--_Daily Chronicle._ HADJIRA, _A TURKISH LOVE STORY_.

BY ADALET.

One volume, crown 8vo., cloth, 6s.

_Speaker._

'Certainly one of the most interesting and valuable works of fiction issued from the press for a long time past. Even if we were to regard the book as an ordinary novel, we could commend it heartily; but its great value lies in the fact that it reveals to us a hidden world, and does so with manifest fidelity. But the reader must learn for himself the lesson which this remarkable and fascinating book teaches.'

_Daily Chronicle._

'A Turkish love story written in excellent English by a young Ottoman lady, would be a book worth reading, if only as a curiosity; but when, as in this instance, it is of uncommon merit and originality, it is particularly welcome. It is deeply interesting, fascinatingly so. It is as a picture of family life in Turkey that this book is so interesting, possibly because the picture it provides is unexpectedly agreeable. As a study of Turkish life in our times, when Western civilization is beginning to penetrate into the seclusion of the harem, this book is a valuable contribution to contemporary literature. It is a well-merited compliment to its author to say of "Hadjira" that it is one of the best stories of the season.'

_Pall Mall Gazette._

'An interesting and readable book.'

_St. James's Gazette._

'The book is excellently written. As a clearly truthful account of modern Turkish life, from the woman's point of view, it is as valuable as it is interesting. We shall hope to have more from the same pen.'

_Guardian._

'A curiously interesting bit of work.'

A RELUCTANT EVANGELIST.

BY ALICE SPINNER, Author of 'Lucilla,' 'A Study in Colour,' etc.

Crown 8vo., 1 vol., 6s.

_Sat.u.r.day Review._

'"A Reluctant Evangelist" is as good as its predecessor "Lucilla," which we were glad to be able to praise last year. The West Indies, with their "colour problem," their weird romance and undercurrent of horror, will last a long time as background for new stories.'

_Glasgow Herald._

'It is into the wonderland of the West Indies that Miss Spinner takes us: into a region of hot sunshine, of blue sky, of sparkling sea. All the stories are excellent, and will repay perusal.'

_Pall Mall Gazette._

'Good, too, is Miss Spinner's budget of short stories. "Buckra Tommie"

is an exquisitely pathetic story. The writer is evidently at home in the South Seas, and with the out-of-the-way humanity she meets there.'

_Irish Times._

'A charming little series of stories. They are very daintily written, and although the incidents upon which they turn are not always very striking, they are at all events novel, and they have been conceived with much dramatic power.'

_Cape Times._

'These short stories are all distinctly good.'

_Englishman._

'We can strongly recommend these stories. They are varied and interesting, and have a distinct literary merit.'

INTERLUDES.

BY MAUD OXENDEN.

One volume, crown 8vo., 6s.

_Scotsman._

'The writer is to be congratulated on the strength with which she portrays men and women, and describes the pa.s.sions of love or of grief that sometimes fill the mind. There are other personages in these pages, whose experiences of love and joy and grief are under other circ.u.mstances than those indicated; but if the writer had depicted none other than the three personages that appear in the tragic scene in London she would have scored a distinct success. An admirably-written book.'

_Sheffield Telegraph._

'We have not read anything so tenderly touched with pathos, and at the same time so delicately told, for a very long time. Indeed, "Interludes"

is about as good a piece of literary work of its cla.s.s as we could wish to read, and is worth a high place in the works which appeal to the emotional in our nature.'

_Bradford Observer._

'The stories evince a considerable and disciplined faculty of invention which, though it produces situations of intense interest, never becomes riotous or extravagant. We will close our too brief note with an expression of the pleasure we have felt in reading these chaste and beautiful fancies.'

_Guardian._

'There is much that is both clever and original in Miss Oxenden's "Interludes." There is often very genuine pathos, and nearly all the volume is interesting.'