g the household.]

[Footnote 3: Church festival.]

[Footnote 4: "Geh zum Kukuk!"]

[Footnote 5: "He who goes up with the cattle into the mountains, during
the good season, is a 'Senn.' In Switzerland, this is done by men; in
the Eastern Alps, in the Bavarian highlands, and in Austria, generally
by women--the 'Sennerin,' 'Almerin.'"

(_The Alps_--H. BERLEPSCH.)]

"The first great English novel that has appeared in the 20th
century."--Lewis Melville in _N. Y. Times Saturday Review_.

JOSEPH VANCE

By William De Morgan. 4th Printing. $1.75.

A notable novel of life near London in the fifties.

From Mr. Melville's article in the _Times Review_: "It is epic in its
conception, magnificent in its presentment.... 'Joseph Vance' is a book
for laughter and for tears, and for smiles mingled with an occasional
sob, that triumph achieved only by the best of humorists.... One of the
tenderest figures in modern fiction.... I write this before the
appearance of 'Alice-for-short.' ... 'Joseph Vance,' in my opinion, is
the book not of the last year, but of the last decade; the best thing
in fiction since 'Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy'; a book that must take
its place, by virtue of its tenderness and pathos, its wit and humor,
its love of human kind, and its virile characterization, as the first
great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."

* * * * *

ALICE-FOR-SHORT

By William De Morgan. 4th Printing. $1.75.

The experiences, some of them decidedly dramatic, of a London waif, the
artist who was kind to her, and of his family and friends.

_Dial_: "'Joseph Vance' was far and away the best novel of the year,
and of many years.... Mr. De Morgan's second novel proves to be no less
remarkable, and equally productive of almost unalloyed delight.... The
reader is hereby warned that if he skims 'Alice-for-short' it will be
to his own serious loss. The cream reaches to the dregs.... A story of
extraordinary interest.... A remarkable example of the art of fiction
at its noblest."

_N. Y. Times Review_: "He is no more afraid to set down the little
language of lovers and children and mothers than he is to deal with
murder or suicide or ghosts.... These two novels of his seem to us to
prove not only that the English novel is not dead, but that it is safe
to develop on the li