h her friend.'--_Athenaeum._

'A tale of rare imaginative beauty. Needless to say, the literary charm
of the book is great, and the atmosphere of the story true to its
historical setting.'--_Dundee Advertiser._

'No living writer is so thoroughly at home in describing French life as
Miss Edwards is, or better able to give a life-like picture of the
social condition of France at the period of Charlotte Corday's daring
deed.'--_Hastings Observer._

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THE CURB OF HONOUR.

BY M. BETHAM-EDWARDS.

Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d.

'The descriptions of scenery in the Pyrenees are very attractive, and
the author has been most skilful in her delineations of the characters
of the leading actors.'--_Literary World._

'The concluding chapter is a piece of masterly tragi-comedy. When I say
that this scene is suggestive of Balzac, I mean a high
compliment.'--_Academy._

'Miss Betham-Edwards is a popular favourite of longstanding. She loves
to take her readers into some quiet corner of France, and her gift of
picturesque description is such that her tales seldom fail to yield
interest and recreation.'--_Times._

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

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AN ISLE IN THE WATER.

BY KATHARINE TYNAN (MRS. HINKSON).

AUTHOR OF 'OH, WHAT A PLAGUE IS LOVE!'

Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3s. 6d.

'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance,
comes a woman artist. "An Isle in the Water" is a collection of fifteen
well-conceived and excellently-finished Irish stories, for which it
would be hard to find anything to say but praise. They are all extremely
short for the force of their effect, and every touch tells; they are
gracefully phrased without an appearance of artifice, subtly expressed
without a suspicion of affectation.'--_Saturday Review._

'I venture to assert that in any one of its fifteen tales there is a
finer rendering of the very essence of Irish life and character than in
any half-dozen of the books which are responsible for the conception of
the conventional Pat or Biddy which has had such a long and prosperous
vogue on this side of the Channel. The book owes its momentum to its
fascinating and powerful rendering of the pathos and the tragedy of the
simple lives with which the writer deals. But this fascination and power
are far too obvious to stand in need of celebration.'--_New Age._

'Any faults the book ma