, 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_

THE BEETLE. A MYSTERY

By =RICHARD MARSH=. Illustrated.

Eleventh Edition. 6s.

The _Daily Graphic_ says: "'The Beetle' is the kind of
book which you put down only for the purpose of turning
up the gas and making sure that no person or thing is
standing behind your chair, and it is a book which no
one will put down until finished except for the reason
above described."

The _Speaker_ says: "A story of the most terrific kind
is duly recorded in this extremely powerful book. The
skill with which its fantastic horrors are presented to
us is undeniable."

T. FISHER UNWIN, 1 ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON

Transcriber's Note

Bold text is indicated with equals symbols, =like this=.

Text in languages other than English is preserved as printed.

Minor punctuation errors have been repaired.

The following amendments have been made:

Page 164--Jocopo amended to Jacopo--"... one of the old
houses in the Borgo San Jacopo, ..."

Page 197--mysogynists amended to misogynists--"Olive
laughed. "Commend me to misogynists henceforth.""

Page 216--newsvenders amended to newsvendors--"... and
the narrow streets were echoing now to the hoarse cries
of the newsvendors ..."

Page 228--Babbuino amended to Babuino--"They went by way
of the Via Babuino across the Piazza di Spagna, ..."

Page 293--anyrate amended to any rate--"... I am sure he
never would, or, at any rate, he would ..."

Page 297--it's amended to its--"... its gnawing,
tearing, animal ferocity was appalling."

Second advert page--decidely amended to decidedly--"This
is a decidedly powerful story ..."

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