Justin McCarthy

decoration

PUBLISHED BY
T. FISHER UNWIN,
11, PATERNOSTER
BUILDINGS,
LONDON, E.C.

F. C. GOULD'S FROISSART.

"The second volume of Mr. F. C. Gould's 'Froissart's Modern Chronicles' is fully equal to the first. The rich vein of pure gold, which the artist-author has struck, is far from exhausted. F. C. G. ranks easily first among English political caricaturists; we doubt, indeed, if he is surpassed by any living exponent of his very special craft."

Daily Telegraph.

"Mr. Gould, I think, may well be 'orgulous' in having written a delightful work of light satire, in which, as in all he does, there is never a foul stroke. No words of mine can paint the joy of the lover of humorous pencil-work, who shall get hold of the 'Modern Chronicles.' It is, after all, as a picture-maker that F. C. G. stands entirely alone."—Vanity Fair.

"The drollest, most ingenious, and most versatile of living political caricaturists."—World.

T. FISHER UNWIN, 11, Paternoster Buildings, London, E.C.

Recent Volumes in the
STORY OF THE NATIONS
A SERIES OF POPULAR HISTORIES.

Each Volume complete with Maps, many Illustrations, and an Index. Large crown 8vo, fancy cloth, gold lettered, or Library Edition, dark cloth, burnished red top, 5s. each. Or may be had in half Persian, cloth sides, gilt tops: Price on Application.

49. Austria. By Sidney Whitman

50. Modern England before the Reform Bill. By Justin McCarthy.

51. China. With a New Chapter on Recent Events. By Prof. R. K. Douglas.

52. Modern England under Queen Victoria. By Justin McCarthy.

53. Modern Spain, 1878-1898. By Martin A. S. Hume, F.R.H.S., Author of "Sir Walter Ralegh," &c.

54. Modern Italy, 1758-1898. By Pietro Orsi, Professor of History in the R. Liceo Foscarini, Venice. With over 40 Illustrations and Maps.

55. Norway. By Professor Hjalmar H. Boyesen, Author of "Idylls of Norway."

56. Wales. By Owen Edwards.

The United States of America, 1783-1900. By A. C. M'Laughlin. In 2 Volumes.

The Papal Monarchy: From Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII. By Rev. W. Barry.

MediÆval Rome. By William Miller.

Buddhist India. By T. W. Rhys Davids.

The Story of Greece (to the Roman Occupation). By E. S. Shuckburgh.

The Story of Greece (from the Roman Occupation to A.D. 1453). By E. S. Shuckburgh.

CLARA HOPGOOD

"The writer who goes by the name of Mark Rutherford is not the most popular novelist of his time by any means. There are writers with names which that recluse genius has never heard of, probably, whose stories give palpitations to thousands of gentle souls, while his own are quietly read by no more than as many hundreds. Yet his publisher never announces a new story by the Author of 'Mark Rutherford's Autobiography,' and 'The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,'—which we believe to be one of the most remarkable bits of writing that these times can boast of—without strongly exciting the interest of many who know books as precious stones are known in Hatton Garden.... 'Clara Hopgood' is entirely out of the way of all existing schools of novel-writing.... Had we to select a good illustration of 'Mark's way' as distinguished from the way of modern storytellers in general, we should point to the chapter in which Baruch visits his son Benjamin in this narration. Nothing could be more simple, nothing more perfect."—Pall Mall Gazette.

A FIRST FLEET FAMILY:

"As convincingly real and vivid as a narrative can be."—Sketch.

"No maker of plots could work out a better story of its kind, nor balance it more neatly."—Daily Chronicle.

"A book which describes a set of characters varied and so attractive as the more prominent figures in this romance, and a book so full of life, vicissitude, and peril, should be welcomed by every discreet novel reader."—Yorkshire Post.

"A very interesting tale, written in clear and vigorous English."—Globe.

"The novel is a happy blend of truth and fiction, with a purpose that will be appreciated by many readers; it has also the most exciting elements of the tale of adventure."—Morning Post.

THE TALES OF JOHN OLIVER HOBBES

Second Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth, 6s.

"The cleverness of them all is extraordinary."—Guardian.

"The volume proves how little and how great a thing it is to write a 'Pseudonym.' Four whole 'Pseudonyms' ... are easily contained within its not extravagant limits, and these four little books have given John Oliver Hobbes a recognized position as a master of epigram and narrative comedy."—St. James's Gazette.

"As her star has been sudden in its rise so may it stay long with us! Some day she may give us something better than these tingling, pulsing, mocking, epigrammatic morsels."—Times.

"There are several literary ladies, of recent origin, who have tried to come up to the society ideal; but John Oliver Hobbes is by far the best writer of them all, by far the most capable artist in fiction.... She is clever enough for anything."—Saturday Review.

THE HERB MOON

"The jaded reader who needs sauce for his literary appetite cannot do better than buy 'The Herb Moon.'"—Literary World.

"A book to hail with more than common pleasure. The epigrammatic quality, the power of rapid analysis and brilliant presentation are there, and added to these a less definable quality, only to be described as charm.... 'The Herb Moon' is as clever as most of its predecessors, and far less artificial."—AthenÆum.

THE STICKIT MINISTER AND SOME COMMON MEN

"Here is one of the books which are at present coming singly and at long intervals, like early swallows, to herald, it is to be hoped, a larger flight. When the larger flight appears, the winter of our discontent will have passed, and we shall be able to boast that the short story can make a home east as well as west of the Atlantic. There is plenty of human nature—of the Scottish variety, which is a very good variety—in 'The Stickit Minister' and its companion stories; plenty of humour, too, of that dry, pawky kind which is a monopoly of 'Caledonia, stern and wild'; and, most plentiful of all, a quiet perception and reticent rendering of that underlying pathos of life which is to be discovered, not in Scotland alone, but everywhere that a man is found who can see with the heart and the imagination as well as the brain. Mr. Crockett has given us a book that is not merely good, it is what his countrymen would call 'by-ordinar good,' which, being interpreted into a tongue understanded of the southern herd, means that it is excellent, with a somewhat exceptional kind of excellence."—Daily Chronicle.

THE LILAC SUN-BONNET

"Mr. Crockett's 'Lilac Sun-Bonnet' 'needs no bush.' Here is a pretty love tale, and the landscape and rural descriptions carry the exile back into the Kingdom of Galloway. Here, indeed, is the scent of bog-myrtle and peat. After inquiries among the fair, I learn that of all romances, they best love, not 'sociology,' not 'theology,' still less, open manslaughter, for a motive, but just love's young dream, chapter after chapter. From Mr. Crockett they get what they want, 'hot with,' as Thackeray admits that he liked it."—Mr. Andrew Lang in Longman's Magazine.

THE RAIDERS

"A thoroughly enjoyable novel, full of fresh, original, and accurate pictures of life long gone by."—Daily News.

"A strikingly realistic romance."—Morning Post.

"A stirring story.... Mr. Crockett's style is charming. My Baronite never knew how musical and picturesque is Scottish-English till he read this book."—Punch.

"The youngsters have their Stevenson, their Barrie, and now a third writer has entered the circle, S. R. Crockett, with a lively and jolly book of adventures, which the paterfamilias pretends to buy for his eldest son, but reads greedily himself and won't let go till he has turned over the last page.... Out of such historical elements and numberless local traditions the author has put together an exciting tale of adventures on land and sea."—Frankfurter Zeitung.

"Galloway folk should be proud to rank 'The Raiders' among the classics of the district."—Scotsman.

"Mr. Crockett's 'The Raiders' is one of the great literary successes of the season."—Dundee Advertiser.

"Mr. Crockett has achieved the distinction of having produced the book of the season."—Dumfries and Galloway Standard.

"The story told in it is, as a story, nearly perfect."—Aberdeen Daily Free Press.

"'The Raiders' is one of the most brilliant efforts of recent fiction."—Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser.

TROOPER PETER HALKET OF MASHONALAND

"We advise our readers to purchase and read Olive Schreiner's new book 'Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland.' Miss Schreiner is one of the few magicians of modern English literature, and she has used the great moral, as well as the great literary, force of her style to great effect."—Daily Chronicle.

"The story is one that is certain to be widely read, and it is well that it should be so, especially at this moment; it grips the heart and haunts the imagination. To have written such a book is to render a supreme service, for it is as well to know what the rough work means of subjugating inferior races."—Daily News.

"Some of the imaginative passages are very fine.... The book is powerfully written."—Scotsman.

"Is well and impressively written."—Pall Mall Gazette.

THE MERMAID SERIES

1. The Best Plays of Christopher Marlowe. Edited by Havelock Ellis, and containing a General Introduction to the Series by John Addington Symonds.

2. The Best Plays of Thomas Otway. Introduction by the HON. Roden Noel.

3. The Best Plays of John Ford.—Edited by Havelock Ellis.

4 and 5. The Best Plays of Thomas Massinger. Essay and Notes by Arthur Symons.

6. The Best Plays of Thomas Heywood. Edited by A. W. Verity. Introduction by J. A. Symonds.

7. The Complete Plays of William Wycherley. Edited by W. C. Ward.

8. Nero, and other Plays. Edited by H. P. Horne, Arthur Symons, A. W. Verity, and H. Ellis.

9 and 10. The Best Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. Introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey.

11. The Complete Plays of William Congreve. Edited by Alex C. Ewald.

12. The Best Plays of Webster and Tourneur. Introduction by John Addington Symonds.

13 and 14. The Best Plays of Thomas Middleton. Introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

15. The Best Plays of James Shirley. Introduction by Edmund Gosse.

16. The Best Plays of Thomas Dekker. Notes by Ernest Rhys.

17, 19, and 20. The Best Plays of Ben Jonson. Vol I. edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Brinsley Nicholson and C. H. Herford.

18. The Complete Plays of Richard Steele. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by G. A. Aitken.

21. The Best Plays of George Chapman. Edited by William Lyon Phelps, Instructor of English Literature at Yale College.

22. The Select Plays of Sir John Vanbrugh. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by A. E. H. Swain.

"Even the professed scholar with a good library at his command will find some texts here not otherwise easily accessible; while the humbler student of slender resources, who knows the bitterness of not being able to possess himself of the treasure stored in expensive folios or quartos long out of print, will assuredly rise up and thank Mr. Unwin."—St. James's Gazette.