demanded for the ordinary "six
shilling" novel.

In another way both author and public are badly served under the
present publishing system. At certain seasons a flood of new novels
pours from the press. Selection becomes almost impossible. The good
novels are lost among the indifferent and the bad. Good service can
be done to literature not only by reducing the price of fiction, but
by sifting its quality.

The number of publishers issuing new fiction is so great, that the
entrance of another firm into the field demands almost an
apology--at least, a word of explanation.

Messrs. Nelson have been pioneers in the issue of reprints of
fiction in Library Edition at Sevenpence. The success of _Nelson's
Library_ has been due to the careful selection of books, regular
publication throughout the whole year, and excellence of manufacture
at a low cost, due to perfection of machinery.

Nelson's Sevenpenny Library represents the best that can be given to
the public in the way of _Reprints_ under present manufacturing
conditions.

Nelson's New Novels (of which this book is one of the first volumes)
represents the same standard of careful selection, excellence of
production, and lowest possible price applied to _New Fiction_.

The list of authors of Nelson's New Novels for 1910 includes Anthony
Hope, E. F. Benson, H. A. Vachell, H. G. Wells, "Q," G. A.
Birmingham, John Masefield, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, J. C. Snaith, John
Buchan, and Agnes and Egerton Castle. Arrangements for subsequent
volumes have been made with other authors of equally high standing.

Nelson's New Novels are of the ordinary "six shilling" size, but are
produced with greater care than most of their competitors. They are
printed in large, clear type, on a fine white paper. They are
strongly bound in green cloth with a white and gold design. They are
decorated with a pretty end-paper and a coloured frontispiece. All
the volumes are issued in bright wrappers. The books are a happy
combination of substantial and artistic qualities.

A new volume is issued regularly every month.

The price is the very lowest at which a large New Novel with good
material and workmanship, and with an adequate return to author,
bookseller, and publisher, can be offered to the public at the
present time.

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