se stories are literature.... Good
stories, well imagined, carefully modelled, properly
proportioned.... In the wild, wonderful atmosphere of 'The
Willows' and 'Max Hensig' Mr. Blackwood is absolute master
of his material. 'The Insanity of Jones' is perhaps the most
remarkable _tour de force_ in this remarkable book."

A SELECTED LIST OF FICTION

_BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD_

THE EMPTY HOUSE

THE MORNING POST: "No one will read this book without dread
... exceedingly well done ... everyone who has a shelf for
the horrible in his library will welcome it and give it its
place."

THE MORNING LEADER: "There is a dreadful fascination about
these clever yet unpretentious stories. We have seldom met
ghostly fiction which has fulfilled its end more
adequately."

_BY CHARLES MARRIOTT_

MRS. ALEMERE'S ELOPEMENT

THE DAILY CHRONICLE: "'Mrs. Alemere's Elopement' is a work
of art.... An outstanding novel."

WOMEN AND THE WEST

THE ACADEMY: "Whatever he produces bears the hall-mark of
his subtle mind. We believe that if he honestly tried for a
month, he could not write anything that was stale in
thought, stale in character and phrase."

THE LAPSE OF VIVIEN EADY

THE TIMES: "As a writer Mr. Marriott increases in virtue. We
have never known his prose so good, whether in description,
dialogue, or analysis."

THE MORNING POST: "It seems to us that 'The Lapse of Vivien
Eady' is distinctly the best book he has hitherto produced.
The characters are excellently well drawn ... and the book
is full of delicate impressions of the aspects of sea and
sky and moorland."

THE REMNANT

THE PALL MALL GAZETTE: "Nothing is more reassuring to the
student of literature than to watch, in the midst of the
careless rise and fall of so many reputations, the steady
advance of such a novelist as Mr. Marriott. It is
unnecessary to argue that fiction is a true and living and
important branch of English literature when it numbers among
its younger exponents such men as the author of 'The
Remnant.' We welcome this book as an addition to the small
body of good psychological fiction in English."

THE WONDROUS WIFE _Second Edition_

THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: "The story has something of the
Greek grandeur, simplicity and inevitableness. The plot is