episodes are of every kind, serious, humorous, tender, awakening,
disillusioning, and they are narrated without any padding whatever, each
one beginning as abruptly as in life; although in none of his previous
work has the author been so minute in his social observation and
narration. A descriptive title precedes each episode, as in the cinema;
and it was in fact while watching a cinema that Mr. Lucas had the idea
of adapting its swift selective methods to fiction.

*Lucas's Annual*

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Mr. E.V. Lucas has had the happy idea of making a collection of new
material by living English authors which shall represent the literature
of our time at its best. Among the contributors are Sir James Barrie,
who writes in the character of an Eton boy; Mr. Arnold Bennett, with a
series of notes and impressions; Mr. Austin Dobson, with a
characteristic poem; F. Anstey, with a short story; Mr. John Galsworthy,
with a fanciful sketch; Mr. Maurice Hewlett, with a light poem; Mr. Hugh
Walpole, with a cathedral town comedy; "Saki," with a caustic satire on
the discursive drama; Mr. Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humorist, with a
burlesque novel; Mr. Lucas himself, and Mr. Ernest Bramah, the author of
_The Wallet of Kai Lung_, with one of his gravely comic Chinese tales.
Mr. Lucas, furthermore, has had placed at his disposal some new and
extremely interesting letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, John Ruskin and
Robert Browning, which are now made public for the first time.

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OTHER BOOKS BY MR. LUCAS

*London Lavender*

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Mr. Lucas has given us a particularly beautiful story in "London
Lavender." We meet again several of the fine characters with whom Mr.
Lucas has already made us acquainted in his other novels, as well as
others equally interesting and entertaining. The intimate sketches of
various phases of London life--visits to the Derby, Zoo, the National
Gallery--are delightfully chronicled and woven into a novel that is a
charming entertainment.

*The Loiterer's Harvest*

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*Harvest Home*

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*A Little of Everything*