is a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and
breaks fresh ground in fiction.... All the leading
characters in the book--Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and
Dain, the daughter's native lover--are well drawn, and the
parting between father and daughter has a pathetic
naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining after effect.
There are, too, some admirably graphic passages in the book.
The approach of a monsoon is most effectively described....
The name of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears
to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay
Archipelago."--_Spectator._

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THE EBBING OF THE TIDE

BY

LOUIS BECKE

Author of "By Reef and Palm"

_Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth_, =6s.=

"Mr. Louis Becke wields a powerful pen, with the additional
advantage that he waves it in unfrequented places, and
summons up with it the elemental passions of human
nature.... It will be seen that Mr. Becke is somewhat of the
fleshly school, but with a pathos and power not given to the
ordinary professors of that school.... Altogether for those
who like stirring stories cast in strange scenes, this is a
book to be read."--_National Observer._

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PACIFIC TALES

BY

LOUIS BECKE

With a Portrait of the Author

_Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth_, =6s.=

"The appearance of a new book by Mr. Becke has become an
event of note--and very justly. No living author, if we
except Mr. Kipling, has so amazing a command of that
unhackneyed vitality of phrase that most people call by the
name of realism. Whether it is scenery or character or
incident that he wishes to depict, the touch is ever so
dramatic and vivid that the reader is conscious of a picture
and impression that has no parallel save in the records of
actual sight and memory."--_Westminster Gazette._

"Another series of sketches of island life in the South
Seas, not inferior to those contained in 'By Reef and
Palm.'"--_Speaker._

"The book is well worth reading. The author knows what he is
talking about and has a keen eye for the picturesque."--G.
B. BURGIN in _To-day_.

"A notable contribution to the romance of the South Seas."
T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P., in _The Graphic_.

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