JUNE 30th 1908.

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Evergreen Novels

Mr. Alston Rivers has pleasure in announcing a New Series of Fiction, on which he has bestowed the appropriate title of ”The Evergreen Novels.” Neatly bound in a delicate green cloth, with pictorial design, all the volumes will be really successful copyright works, nay, more than that, books that possess merits that will last, and not merely ephemeral.

The First Three Volumes are:

A Pixy in Petticoats

By John Trevena. Author of “Arminel of the West”; “Furze the Cruel,” etc. 1s. net.

“‘A Pixy In Petticoats’ is as good a story of Dartmoor as has been written these many moons.”—Evening Standard.

“A glance at any chapter is almost as good as a breath of that breeze which charges at you on the top of Hay or Yes Tor.”—Bystander.

The House of Merrilees

By Archibald Marshall, Author of “Peter Binney, Undergraduate”; “Richard Baldock”; “Exton Manor.” 1s. net.

“It is a pleasure to praise a book of this kind, and rare to find one in which a narrative of absorbing interest is combined with so many literary graces.”—Bookman.

“The best mystery novel since Sir A. Conan Doyle’s ‘Sign of Four.’”—Daily Graphic.

“Can recommend cordially and with confidence to those who like a really good story, well constructed and excellently told.”—Punch.

A London Girl

TALES FROM THE GREAT CITY.

By the Author of “Closed Doors,” and “The Rainy Day.”

1s. net.

The Bishop of London, addressing a meeting at the Northampton Institute, Finsbury, said: “I have lately been reading a story which interested and impressed me very much indeed. All you men ought to read it. It was called ‘A London Girl.’ The picture painted in it made a great impression on me, because I know from my own experience in rescue and preventative work that the story is literally true. It is the story of the downfall of hundreds of our girls In London to-day. The pitiful tale is not overdrawn; it is all too true.”

“Certain it is that the author of this pitiless tale is neither ordinary nor inexperienced. ‘Baby’ is a great creation. She leaps from the printed page into lovely, merry life, and all through she exercises a spell over one.”—Dundee Advertiser.

“We have had many good things from Mr. Alston Rivers in his year or so of publishing, and his new venture, ‘Tales from the Great City,’ promises to be one of the most striking amongst them.”—Bystander.

Further Volumes in this Series will be announced in due course.