'Distinctly superior to three-fourths of the fiction
published.'--ACADEMY.

LADY BRANKSMERE.

'.... Sufficiently sensational to suit the most ardent admirers of
fiction, and yet contains much that is worthy of admiration.'--COURT
JOURNAL.

LOYS, LORD BERRESFORD, and other Tales.

'A collection of stories which cannot fail to be popular. There is
something good in all of them, and one or two are especially racy and
piquant.'--ACADEMY.

UNDER-CURRENTS.

'Altogether as enjoyable as one is accustomed to expect from the clever
author of "Molly Bawn."'--SCOTSMAN.

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London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place.

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NOVELS BY GEORGE GISSING.

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_Fcp. 8vo. Pictorial boards, 2s. each; or limp red cloth, 2s. 6d. each._

DEMOS:

A STORY OF SOCIALIST LIFE IN ENGLAND.

'If a tale of Socialism does not find abundance of readers, it is not
because the times are not ripe for it. This remarkable novel presents
the great social problem in a striking garb.... "Demos" does not aspire
to vie with "Alton Locke," but it tells a story more practical, and of
more brightness and variety.'--TIMES.

'A really able and vigorous romance.'--ATHENAEUM.

'This is a novel of very considerable ability.... It is evidently
written by a man who has a very intimate knowledge of the working
classes, and not a little sympathy with them.... Nothing can be more
skilful than the sketch of the artisan family round whose fortunes the
story of the book revolves. The chief character is very powerfully
drawn.... His mother too, with her narrow, complaining, and almost dumb
integrity, ... the weak, pretty daughter, and the worthless, blackguard
son, are hardly less truthful studies.... The sketch of the one or two
Socialist meetings which the author has occasion to describe, of the
style of Socialist literature, and the conversation of Socialist
agitators, shows an intimate knowledge of that field of
action.'--SPECTATOR.

A LIFE'S MORNING.

'Powerful and unique, as all Mr. Gissing's former writings are. "A
Life's Morning" is his _chef-d'oeuvre_.... The story is most
fascinating and most natural.' WHITEHALL REVIEW.

'As a study of feminine nature, "A Life's Morning" is, perhaps, the most
successful of all Mr. Gissing's works, and deserves to be fully as
popular as its predecessors.' PALL MALL GAZETTE.

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