ominated by one remarkable
character, whose progress towards the subjugation of his own
temperament we cannot help but watch with interest. He is swept
from one thing to another, first by his dare-devil, roistering
spirit, then by his mood of deep repentance, through love and
marriage, through quarrels and separation from his wife, to a
reconciliation at the point of death, to a return to health, and
through the domination of the devil in him, finally to death. It
is a strong, convincing novel suggesting, somewhat, "The House with
the Green Shutters." What that book did for the Scotland of Ian
Maclaren and Barrie, "The Squireen" will do for Ireland.

Cloth, 12mo $1.50

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By Arthur Morrison

THE HOLE IN THE WALL

No one knows the lower side of London life so well as Arthur
Morrison, and this novel is his most masterly presentation of the
underworld with which he is so familiar. He has knit mean
characters, mean passions, mean stage setting into a powerful drama
of life that thrills as much because of the realism with which it
is drawn as because of the exciting scenes that come treading
helter-skelter upon each others heels. The rough sailors, the
thugs and criminals that frequent the "Hole in the Wall" Inn lose
none of their picturesqueness, nor any of their sordidness either,
from Mr. Morrison's treatment of them. He handles his material in
a way that suggests strongly the work of Dickens. As an intimate
picture of the lowest life in London, the novel is without an equal.

"It is a section of human life showing true lights and shadows, a
section cut by an exceedingly sharp blade. Some of the things that
Dickens is most praised for are evident in the work of Mr.
Morrison."--_Springfield Republican_.

"All of Mr. Morrison's work deserves the recognition it has
attained, but this is undoubtedly the most artistic, the most
virile, and the most heartrendingly true."--_Baltimore Sun_.

$1.50

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By Arnold Bennett

Author of "The Great Babylon Hotel"

ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS

Probably no story of the year is so simply and yet so artistically
told as this one. It portrays the development of a sweet and
natural girl's character, amid a community of strict Wesleyan
Methodists in a Staffordshire town. How her upright nature
progresses with constant rebellions against the hypocrisy and cant
of the religionists, by whom she is