Paths of Judgement Part 37

"It is good to take up a new novel by the Author of "The Good Comrade."

... "Desire" is a well written book. It satisfies the intelligence at the same time as it appeals to the emotions, and it sets up a fine romantic standard of Life which should not be missed."--_Morning Post._

_The Good Comrade._

"I like the whole book."--_Punch._

"It has every quality of success."--_The Daily Mail._

_Curayl._

"The book has a curious charm. I put it down with an unstinted admiration for its technique and the naturalness of its dialogue, with a strong desire to read it again at once."--_Punch._

_The Success of Mark Wyngate._

"Miss Silberrad is certainly to be congratulated on her book, which shows real ability and is distinctly interesting."--_The Queen._

_The Wedding of the Lady of Lovell._

"It may be safely said that few tales of recent years have been more excellently told. There is a quiet humorous force about the style, a mature originality which is altogether admirable."--_The Morning Leader._

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_By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS_

_The King in Yellow._

An Ill.u.s.trated Edition of Mr. Chambers earliest and very characteristic work.

"Mr. Chambers tries to give his readers a new shiver of terror. All the sketches have power, and almost all are gruesome."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"He has never done anything better than these short stories. We find not only extraordinary constructive skill but a remarkable power of suggesting a curious and unfamiliar atmosphere."--_Liverpool Courier._

_Some Ladies in Haste._

With Ill.u.s.trations by CYRUS CUNEO.

A delightfully whimsical series of stories in Mr. Chambers best vein.

_The Tree of Heaven._

"Let none be afraid of not finding good entertainment in 'The Tree of Heaven.'"--_Morning Post._

_The Younger Set._

[_Fifth Impression._

Ill.u.s.trated by G. C. WILMSHURST.

"A story of absorbing interest; many of the characters are drawn with great subtlety."--_Daily Chronicle._

"There is a spirit and freshness about the story which will make it attractive to all readers who like a wholesome novel."--_Daily Telegraph._

"They are all drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm."--_Times._

_The Fighting Chance._

[_Eighth Impression._

Ill.u.s.trated by FRED PEGRAM.

"His new and most attractive novel ... a work that is sure of a wide success."--_Punch._

"With its wealth of material and serious excellence of workmanship, a novel deserving of more than careless perusal."--_Manchester Guardian._

"We are grateful to Mr. Chambers for a novel which recalls more than any recent work of his the promise of his early short stories."--_Morning Post._

"Mr. Chambers has achieved another success."--_The Athenaeum._

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_By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS_

_The Maid at Arms._

[_3rd Edition_

"Mr. Chambers gives a fine picture of that moment of hesitation when the future of the United States trembled on a razor's edge ... one of the sweetest heroines that fiction has presented for some little time."--_The Daily Chronicle._

_The Maids of Paradise._

[_3rd edition_

"Is a fine martial story of the Franco-Prussian War, with a dash of romance in it ... rich in descriptive pa.s.sages that are as vivid and graphic as anything that has been written of that disastrous war."--_Yorkshire Post._

_The Reckoning._

[_2nd Edition_

"The book is at once a stirring romance and a vivid historical study, well-devised, well-written, and packed throughout with human interest."--_Daily Chronicle._

_In Search of the Unknown._

"An excellent satire on pseudo-scientific romance ... a delightful string of the most marvellous adventures.... The book is saturated with fun, and heaped up and running over with adventure."--_Scotsman._

_A Young Man in a Hurry._