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AMILTON FYFFE. =_W. E. Henley_=, and the "NATIONAL OBSERVER" Group. By GEORGE GAMBLE. =_The Parnassian School in English_= POETRY. (ANDREW LANG, EDMUND GOSSE and ROBERT BRIDGES.) By Sir GEORGE DOUGLAS. =_Algernon Charles Swinburne_=. By G. F. MONKSHOOD. =_Realistic Writers of To-day_=. By JUSTIN HANNAFORD. * * * * * =_The Wheel of Life_=. A Few Memories and Recollections (de omnibus rebus). By CLEMENT SCOTT, Author of "Madonna Mia," "Poppyland," etc. With Portrait of the Author from the celebrated Painting by J. MORDECAI. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, crimson buckram, gilt lettered, gilt top, 2s. =Weekly Sun= (T. P. O'Connor) says:--A Book of the Week--"I have found this slight and unpretentious little volume bright, interesting reading. I have read nearly every line with pleasure." =Illustrated London News=.--"The story Mr Scott has to tell is full of varied interest, and is presented with warmth and buoyancy." =Punch=.--"What pleasant memories does not Clement Scott's little book, 'The Wheel of Life,'revive! The writer's memory is good, his style easy, and above all, which is a great thing for reminiscences, chatty." =Referee=.--GEORGE R. SIMS (Dagonet) says:--"Deeply interesting are these last memories and recollections of the last days of Bohemia.... I picked up 'The Wheel of Life' at one in the morning, after a hard night's work, and flung myself, weary and worn, into an easy-chair, to glance at it while I smoked my last pipe. As I read, all my weariness departed, for I was young and light-hearted once again, and the friends of my young manhood had come trooping back from the shadows to make a merry night of it once more in London town. And when I put the book down, having read it from cover to cover, it was 'past three o'clock and a windy morning.'" =_A Trip to Paradoxia_=, and other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction. By T. H. S. ESCOTT, Author of "Personal Forces of the Period," "Social Transformation of the Victorian Age," "Platform, Press, Politics, and Play," Etc. Crown 8vo, art cloth. Gilt, 5s. nett. =Standard.=--"A book which is amusing from cover to cover. Bright epigrams abound in Mr Escott's satirical pictures of the modern world.... Those who know the inner aspects of politics and society will, undoubtedly, be the first to recognise the skill and adroit
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