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er Halket of Mashonaland.= By OLIVE SCHREINER. Frontispiece. =Pacific Tales.= By LOUIS BECKE. With Frontispiece Portrait of the Author. Second Edition. =Mrs. Keith's Crime.= By Mrs. W. K. CLIFFORD. Sixth Edition. With Portrait of Mrs. Keith by the Hon. JOHN COLLIER, and a New Preface by the Author. =Hugh Wynne.= By Dr. S. WEIR MITCHELL. With Frontispiece Illustration. =The Tormentor.= By BENJAMIN SWIFT, Author of "Nancy Noon." =Prisoners of Conscience.= By AMELIA E. BARR, Author of "Jan Vedder's Wife." With 12 Illustrations. =The Gods, some Mortals and Lord Wickenham.= New Edition. By JOHN OLIVER HOBBES. =The Outlaws of the Marches.= By Lord ERNEST HAMILTON. Fully illustrated. =The School for Saints=: Part of the History of the Right Honourable Robert Orange, M.P. By JOHN OLIVER HOBBES, Author of "Sinner's Comedy." "Some Emotions and a Moral," "The Herb Moon," &c. =The People of Clopton=. By GEORGE BARTRAM. * * * * * WORKS BY JOSEPH CONRAD I. AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS _Crown 8vo_, _cloth_, =6s.= "Subject to the qualifications thus disposed of (_vide_ first part of notice), 'An Outcast of the Islands' is perhaps the finest piece of fiction that has been published this year, as 'Almayer's Folly' was one of the finest that was published in 1895 ... Surely this is real romance--the romance that is real. Space forbids anything but the merest recapitulation of the other living realities of Mr. Conrad's invention--of Lingard, of the inimitable Almayer, the one-eyed Babalatchi, the Naturalist, of the pious Abdulla--all novel, all authentic. Enough has been written to show Mr. Conrad's quality. He imagines his scenes and their sequence like a master; he knows his individualities and their hearts; he has a new and wonderful field in this East Indian Novel of his.... Greatness is deliberately written; the present writer has read and re-read his two books, and after putting this review aside for some days to consider the discretion of it, the word still stands."--_Saturday Review._ * * * * * II. ALMAYER'S FOLLY _Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth_, =6s.= ="This startling, unique, splendid book."= Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P. "This
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