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"Letters of news and of gossip, of polite nonsense, of humor and pathos,
of friendship, of quiet reflection, stately letters in the grand manner,
and naive letters by obscure and ignorant folk."

OTHER ESSAYS BY E.V. LUCAS

*Old Lamps for New*

_Frontispiece, 12mo. $1.25 net._

*The Second Post*

_16mo. $1.25 net._

*British Pictures and Their Painters*

_Illustrated. 12mo. $1.25 net._

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OTHER BOOKS BY E.V. LUCAS

*Over Bemerton's*

_A Novel_

After seeing modern problems vividly dissected, and after the excitement
of thrilling adventure stories, it will be positively restful to drop
into the cozy lodgings over Bemerton's second-hand bookstore for a
drifting, delightful talk with a man of wide reading, who has travelled
in unexpected places, who has an original way of looking at life, and a
happy knack of expressing what is seen. There are few books which so
perfectly suggest without apparent effort a charmingly natural and real
personality.

_Decorated cloth, $1.50 net._

*Mr. Ingleside* (The Macmillan Fiction Library)

The author almost succeeds in making the reader believe that he is
actually mingling with the people of the story and attending their
picnics and parties. Some of them are Dickensian and quaint, some of
them splendid types of to-day, but all of them are touched off with
sympathy and skill and with that gentle humor in which Mr. Lucas shows
the intimate quality, the underlying tender humanity, of his art.

_Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net._

*Listener's Lure*

_A Kensington Comedy_

A novel, original and pleasing, whose special charm lies in its happy
phrasing of acute observations of life. For the delicacy with which his
personalities reveal themselves through their own letters, "the book
might be favorably compared," says the Chicago _Tribune_, "with much of
Jane Austen's character work"--and the critic proceeds to justify, by
quotations, what he admits is high praise indeed.

_Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net._

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