Though Mr. Joseph Hocking's novels have been (by the Spectator) compared to Mr. Baring-Gould's and (by the Star) to Mr. Thomas Hardy's—next to whom it placed him as a writer of country life—and by other journals to Mr. Hall Caine's and Mr. Robert Buchanan's, they are, one and all, stamped with striking and original individuality. Bold in conception, pure in tone, strenuously high and earnest in purpose, daring in thought, picturesque and life-like in description, worked out with singular power and in nervous and vigorous language, it is not to be wondered at that Mr. Hocking's novels are eagerly awaited by a large and ever increasing public.

THE PURPLE ROBE.
Illustrated by J. Barnard Davis.
WEAPONS OF MYSTERY.
With Frontispiece and Vignette.
FIELDS OF FAIR RENOWN.
With Frontispiece and Vignette by J. Barnard Davis.
ALL MEN ARE LIARS.
With Frontispiece and Vignette by Gordon Browne.
ISHMAEL PENGELLY: An Outcast.
With Frontispiece and Vignette by W. S. Stacey.
THE STORY OF ANDREW FAIRFAX.
With Frontispiece and Vignette by Geo. Hutchinson.
JABEZ EASTERBROOK.
With Frontispiece and Vignette by Stanley L. Wood.
ZILLAH.
With Frontispiece by Powell Chase.
THE MONK OF MAR-SABA.
With Frontispiece and Vignette by W. S. Stacey.