--in paper covers on the French model, only neater and
more substantial.'--_Daily Mail._

'In type, make-up, and size, it is exactly the volume to buy at the
book-stall and slip into such convenient receptacle as you may chance to
carry with you in the railway carriage. It costs you no more than a few
illustrated papers, and is more handy to bestow when you have read it.
As for the contents, they are eight slight stories, in Mrs. Clifford's
best manner. Yet, simple and unpretending as they are, they contain the
real novelist's touch. There is nature, drama, character, in these short
histories, and, above all, that command of simple pathos which Mrs.
Clifford has more than most writers. We do not know many living writers
who could have done either so well.'--_St. James's Gazette._

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UNIFORM WITH 'MERE STORIES,'

THE LAST TOUCHES.

BY MRS. W. K. CLIFFORD.

'Much skill is devoted to the narration of all these
stories.'--_Saturday Review._

'Many of them surpass even "Aunt Anne" and "Mrs. Keith's Crime" in
terseness and brilliant originality.'--_Morning Post._

'One reads them from beginning to end enchanted.'--_National Review._

'There is some very pretty and delicate work in them, which the literary
world would be the poorer for losing.'--_Daily Telegraph._

'Indeed, in every story there are touches of wonderful cleverness, signs
of clear insight, of fresh and just observation.'--_Speaker._

'Two or three of the stories reach an uncommon level of thought and
expression.'--_Standard._

'But they are all good, all original, all distinctive, and we advise
readers to take care not to miss them.'--_Guardian._

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

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THE DREAM-CHARLOTTE.

BY M. BETHAM-EDWARDS.

Crown 8vo, cloth, price 6s.

'Miss Betham-Edwards is on her own special ground in her new novel,
which she calls "The Dream-Charlotte." Provincial France of the
Revolution time she knows with a detailed knowledge few other English
writers, if any, possess. It is a first-rate novel for youth, because of
its irresistible, contagious youthfulness; and its wholesome
enthusiasms.'--_The Sketch._

'An historical novel of a thoroughly legitimate kind, for the picture
and the character are brought before us with sufficient vividness, yet
mainly through the words and thoughts of the fictitious heroine, and
through her close sympathy wit