how things fell
out, and what obscure events and persons helped and hindered the
overthrow of James II. But the chief interest of the book turns round
the private person, the Lifeguardsman, not all a hero, mistaken, erring,
unfortunate, yet a brave man, and of the kind that stirs our sympathies
more than do immaculate heroes.'--_Bookman._

'The work is characterised by great dash and vigour, and the principal
characters in the story are strongly drawn, while the incidents are
woven so skilfully together that the reader is carried with absorbing
interest to the close.'--_Western Times._

'English readers are under a considerable debt of gratitude to the
anonymous translator who has given them a version in the vernacular of
Schimmel's "De Kaptein van de Lijfgarde." "The Lifeguardsman" is a
historical novel of very unusual power and fidelity. In detail and habit
the scenes and people of that troublous period are "reconstituted" here
with remarkable skill.'--_Belfast Northern Whig._

'We do not often get the pleasure of handling such a lively and
thrilling story, and can feel a due measure of gratitude for the
anonymous "mere adapter" to whose discernment and enterprise we are
indebted for having brought it to our notice.'--_Literary World._

A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

* * * * *

A JAPANESE MARRIAGE

BY DOUGLAS SLADEN.

FIFTH THOUSAND.

Crown 8vo, boards, price 2s.; or in cloth, price 2s. 6d.

I. ZANGWILL, _Pall Mall Magazine_, says: 'Bryn, the
heroine, is a charming creature, and some of the scenes with her
half-crazed dying sister reveal strong imaginative power.'

MRS LYNN LINTON, in the _Queen_, says: 'Another Little Dear
has for her main quality unselfishness, penetrated through and through
by love. Such a character is Mary Avon in Douglas Sladen's striking
novel, "A Japanese Marriage."'

SILAS K. HOCKING, in the _Family Circle_: 'The stupidity, not
to say immorality, of the English law, which prevents marriage with the
deceased wife's sister, has rarely been more strikingly illustrated than
in Mr. Douglas Sladen's clever novel, "A Japanese Marriage." I could
wish the whole bench of bishops would read, mark, learn, and inwardly
digest this sparkling and entertaining story.'

HELEN MATHERS, in the _Literary World_, writes: 'Philip and
Bryn--these two are so interesting and so true to life, the Japanese
background against which they move in such noble but inte