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POPULAR FICTION

NOVELS AT THREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE

=_Shams!_= A Social Satire. By----? This is a remarkable and
interesting story of Modern Life in London Society. It is a
powerful work, written with striking vividness. The plot is
fascinating, the incidents exciting, and the dialogue epigrammatic
and brilliant. "Shams" is written by one of the most popular
novelists of the day. Crown 8vo, art cloth, gilt, 3s. 6d.

=_Miss Malevolent._= A Realistic Study. By the Author of "The
Hypocrite." Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

=_A Comedy of Temptation_;= or, The Amateur Fiend. A Tale by TRISTRAM
COUTTS, Author of "The Pottle Papers," etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s.
6d.

=_The Weird Well._= A Tale of To-day. By Mrs ALEC M'MILLAN, Author of
"The Evolution of Daphne," "So Runs my Dream," etc. Crown 8vo,
cloth, 3s, 6d.

=_Zoroastro._= An Historical Romance. By CRESWICK J. THOMPSON, Author
of "Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries," "The Mystery and Romance
of Alchemy and Pharmacy," etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

=_The Temptation of Edith Watson._= By SYDNEY HALL. Crown 8vo, cloth,
3s. 6d.

=_The Gentleman Digger._= Realistic Pictures of Life in Johannesburg.
By ANNA, COMTESSE de BREMONT, Author of "A Son of Africa," etc. New
Edition, revised to date, with a new Preface. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s.
6d.

_The Sword of Fate._ An Interesting Novel. By HENRY HERMAN, Author
of "Eagle Joe," "Scarlet Fortune," etc., and Joint Author of the
"Silver King," "Claudian." Crown 8vo, art cloth, 3s. 6d.

=Vanity Fair.=--"The hand that wrote the 'Silver King' has by no means
lost its cunning in painting broad effects of light and shadow. The
description of life in Broadmoor is, we fancy, done from actual
observation. It is quite new." And the critic of =Black and White= sums it
up pithily as "a story which holds our attention and interests us right
from the first chapter. The book is as exciting as even a story of
sensation has any need to be." Speaking of the scene of Mr Herman's
drama, the beautiful county of Devonshire, where the greater part of the
story takes place, the =Manchester Courier= says: "The author's
descriptive powers vividly portray the lovely spots by the winding
Tamar, while the rich dialect of the district is so faithfully
reproduced as to become not the least feature of an exciting tal