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encouragement." _Each Volume has an Introduction specially written by the Editor._ Price, in paper covers, 2_s._ 6_d._ each, or cloth, 3_s._ 6_d._ =IN GOD'S WAY.= From the Norwegian of BJOeRNSTJERNE BJOeRNSON. _Athenaeum._--"Without doubt the most important and the most interesting work published during the twelve months.... There are descriptions which certainly belong to the best and cleverest things our literature has ever produced. Amongst the many characters, the doctor's wife is unquestionably the first. It would be difficult to find anything more tender, soft, and refined than this charming personage." =PIERRE AND JEAN.= From the French of GUY DE MAUPASSANT. _Pall Mall Gazette._--"So fine and faultless, so perfectly balanced, so steadily progressive, so clear and simple and satisfying. It is admirable from beginning to end." _Athenaeum._--"Ranks amongst the best gems of modern French fiction." =THE CHIEF JUSTICE.= From the German of KARL EMIL FRANZOS, Author of "For the Right," &c. _New Review._--"Few novels of recent times have a more sustained and vivid human interest." _Christian World._--"A story of wonderful power ... as free from any thing objectionable as 'The Heart of Midlothian.'" =WORK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT.= From the Russian of Count LYOF TOLSTOY. _Liverpool Mercury._--"Marked by all the old power of the great Russian novelist." _Manchester Guardian._--"Readable and well translated; full of high and noble feeling." =FANTASY.= From the Italian of MATILDE SERAO. _National Observer._--"The strongest work from the hand of a woman that has been published for many a day." _Scottish Leader._--"The book is full of a glowing and living realism.... There is nothing like 'Fantasy' in modern literature.... It is a work of elfish art, a mosaic of light and love, of right and wrong, of human weakness and strength, and purity and wantonness, pieced together in deft and witching precision." =FROTH.= From the Spanish of Don ARMANDO PALACIO-VALDES. _Daily Telegraph._--"Vigorous and powerful in the highest degree. It abounds in forcible delineation of character, and describes scenes with rare and graphic strength." =FOOTSTEPS OF FATE.= From the Dutch of LOUIS COUPERUS. _Daily Chronicle._--"A powerfully realistic story which has been excellentl
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