LIBRARY OF COPYRIGHT FICTION

Uniform with this Volume and same Price.

_FORTHCOMING VOLUMES._

MANALIVE. G. K. Chesterton.

Mr. Chesterton is avowedly the maker of fantasies, half allegorical in
motive; but like all true allegories, they touch ordinary life at many
points. This story will be found as daring and subtle in conception, and
as brilliant in presentation as his best work. (_May 19._)

WHITE WINGS. William Black.

William Black's famous novel may be described as a classic of yachting.
No sunnier tale of the seas has ever been written. (_June 2._)

SCARLET RUNNER. C. N. and A. M. Williamson.

In this book Mr. and Mrs. Williamson describe the various doings of a
young gentleman whose sole worldly possession is a large touring car.
Adventures are to the adventurous, and Christopher Race found them in
full. (_June 16._)

_Already Published._

TRENT'S LAST CASE. E. C. Bentley.

This has been by far the most successful detective novel of recent
years. Mr. Lewis Hind in _The Daily Chronicle_ described it as the best
detective story of the century.

THE OPEN QUESTION. Elizabeth Robins.

This was the book with which Miss Robins first won her great reputation
as a novelist. The scene is laid in America, and the story is described
by the author as a "study of two temperaments."

THE MONEY MARKET. E. F. Benson.

A brilliant study of London society and of the strife between love and
the power of purse.

THE LUCK OF THE VAILS. E. F. Benson.

In this story of modern country-house life Mr. Benson mingles mystery,
intrigue, and comedy with the skill of which he alone has the secret.

THE POTTER'S THUMB. Flora Annie Steel.

"Sometimes the potter's thumb slips in the moulding, so in the firing
the pot cracks." Mrs. Steel's brilliant study of Anglo-Indian life is
based upon this text. It is one of the most dramatic and moving of her
Indian novels.

ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS. Flora Annie Steel.

This book is generally regarded as Mrs. Steel's masterpiece. It is a
story of the Indian Mutiny, and contains a wonderful picture of the
heroism of English men and women in that time of terror.

THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF. Stanley J. Weyman.

This, one of the first of Mr. Weyman's famous novels, deals with France
in the time of the Huguenot wars, and contains a brilliant picture of
the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. A. Courlander.

This realistic story of l