Olive in Italy Part 38

By =H. DE VERE STACPOOLE=,

Author of "The Crimson Azaleas," etc. 6s.

The _Times_ says: "Picturesque and original ... full of air and light and motion."

The _Daily Telegraph_ says: "A hauntingly beautiful story."

The _Globe_ says: "Weirdly imaginative, remote, and fateful."

The _Evening Standard_ says: "A masterpiece.... It has the gift of the most vivid description that makes a scene live before your eyes."

The _Sunday Times_ says: "A very lovely and fascinating tale, by the side of which 'Paul and Virginia' seems tame indeed."

The _Morning Leader_ says: "It is a true romance, with an atmosphere of true romance which few but the greatest writers achieve."

The _World_ says: "Original and fascinating."

The _Nottingham Guardian_ says: "A singularly powerful and brilliantly imagined story."

The _Daily Chronicle_ says: "Many able authors, an unaccountable number, have written about the South Sea Islands, but none that we know has written so charmingly as Mr. de Vere Stacpoole in 'The Blue Lagoon.'"

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON

T. FISHER UNWIN, Publisher,

WORKS BY JOSEPH CONRAD

I.

AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS

_Crown 8vo._, _cloth_, =6s.=

"Subject to the qualifications thus disposed of (_vide_ first part of notice), 'An Outcast of the Islands' is perhaps the finest piece of fiction that has been published this year, as 'Almayer's Folly' was one of the finest that was published in 1895.... Surely this is real romance--the romance that is real. s.p.a.ce forbids anything but the merest recapitulation of the other living realities of Mr. Conrad's invention--of Lingard, of the inimitable Almayer, the one-eyed Babalatchi, the Naturalist, of the pious Abdulla--all novel, all authentic. Enough has been written to show Mr. Conrad's quality. He imagines his scenes and their sequence like a master; he knows his individualities and their hearts; he has a new and wonderful field in this East Indian Novel of his.... Greatness is deliberately written; the present writer has read and re-read his two books, and after putting this review aside for some days to consider the discretion of it, the word still stands."--_Sat.u.r.day Review_

II.

ALMAYER'S FOLLY

_Second Edition._ _Crown 8vo._, _cloth_, =6s.=

"This startling, unique, splendid book."

Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.

"This is a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction.... All the leading characters in the book--Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover--are well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining after effect.

There are, too, some admirably graphic pa.s.sages in the book. The approach of a monsoon is most effectively described.... The name of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago."--_Spectator_

THE BEETLE. A MYSTERY

By =RICHARD MARSH=. Ill.u.s.trated.

Eleventh Edition. 6s.

The _Daily Graphic_ says: "'The Beetle' is the kind of book which you put down only for the purpose of turning up the gas and making sure that no person or thing is standing behind your chair, and it is a book which no one will put down until finished except for the reason above described."

The _Speaker_ says: "A story of the most terrific kind is duly recorded in this extremely powerful book. The skill with which its fantastic horrors are presented to us is undeniable."

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON