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 life on a great London newspaper is probably the best novel of journalism ever written.

A WALKING GENTLEMAN. James Prior.

In this delightful fantasia a young peer, on the eve of his marriage, walks out of his park into the world of common folk, and in the adventures which follow finds that zest for life which he had hitherto found wanting.

BROTHERS. H. A. Vachell.

The publishers are happy to be able to add to the Nelson Library Mr. Vachell's most famous novel, one of the most successful of recent years. It is a brilliant study of character, full of drama and profound humanity.

THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD. A. Conan Doyle.

The doings of this soldier of Napoleon have long been among Sir A. Conan Doyle's most popular achievements in the art of fiction. As Mr. Merriman's Barlasch represents the graver type of French veteran, so Brigadier Gerard represents the dash and braggadocio of the Grande ArmÉe.

WHITE HEATHER. William Black.

This charming love story is one of the most popular of Mr. Black's romances of Highland life and sport.

SIMON DALE. Anthony Hope.

This is Mr. Anthony Hope's only historical novel. It deals with the Court of Charles II., and gives a brilliant picture of that complex age, relieved by a charming love story.

A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE. Stanley J. Weyman.

This is the first novel by which Mr. Weyman won his great reputation. It is a tale of France during the religious wars of the sixteenth century, and has long ranked as one of the most brilliant historical romances of our day.

THE WAR IN THE AIR. H. G. Wells.

"The War in the Air" is a story of the awful devastation following a conflict between two first-class powers with the resources of the air at their command. It is one of the most brilliant and successful of Mr. Wells's studies in futurity.

RUPERT OF HENTZAU. Anthony Hope.

This is a sequel to the famous "Prisoner of Zenda," already published in the Nelson Library. It tells of the end of the long vendetta between young Rupert of Hentzau and the Englishman, Rudolph Rassendyll. It is needless to praise a book which, with its predecessor, has been recognized as one of the greatest of modern romances.

SALT OF THE SEA. Morley Roberts.

This is a collection of Mr. Morley Roberts's best sea stories selected from half a dozen of his former volumes. "The Promotion of the Admiral" and its sequel have been ranked by good critics as among the best modern short stories. Mr. Roberts is scarcely less fine in his eerie tales, as in the wonderful tale of "Billy be-damned."

THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. A. Conan Doyle.

The publishers are happy to be able to add to their Nelson Library the first collection of those stories which have made the name of Sherlock Holmes a household word throughout the world.

THE PALADIN. H. A. Vachell.

Mr. Vachell's gift of sympathetic understanding has rarely appeared to better advantage than in this story. It is a fascinating study of quixotry and idealism.

THE OSBORNES. E. F. Benson.

In this book Mr. Benson has provided a careful and sympathetic study of a middle-class family who rise to affluence. It is full of brilliant humour and wide human sympathy.

THE RETURN OF THE EMIGRANT. Lydia M. Mackay.

This is a story of modern Highland life, full of carefully studied types, and lit with all the glamour of the Western Highlands. It is the most important recent contribution to Scottish fiction.

PRINCESS PRISCILLA'S FORTNIGHT.

By the Author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." This tale, famous both as a book and as a play, tells how a young and beautiful German princess, growing weary of Court restrictions, flies from her home, and with her maid seeks refuge in an English village. Her royal generosity soon leads her into financial straits, and she is rescued and restored to her family by her lover. The humour and piquancy of the situations are not less great than the charm of the heroine.

LADY GOOD-FOR-NOTHING. "Q" (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch).

Sir Oliver Vyell, the British Collector of Customs at Boston, rescues a poor girl from the stocks, educates her, and makes her mistress of his household. The scene moves to Lisbon, and there is a wonderful picture of the earthquake.

HETTY WESLEY. "Q."

This love story of one of the members of the Wesley family is perhaps "Q's" most brilliant novel, as distinct from those romances with which his name is chiefly associated.

HURRISH. Hon. Emily Lawless.

This is a tale of peasant life in Ireland which has few rivals in Irish literature. It is done with the dignity and restraint of a Greek tragedy.

JEMMY ABERCRAW. Bernard Capes.

In this brilliant romance the chief figure is a highwayman who conducts his profession in a spirit of light-hearted chivalry. The last of the Jacobite plots in England is introduced into the narrative.

RULES OF THE GAME. Stewart Edward White.

Mr. S. E. White is one of the best of those younger American novelists who deal with man in his conflicts with nature. This is a story of the Californian Sierras and the great duel between the financial trusts and the Government for the preservation of the forests. Like all Mr. White's books it is full of swift incident and the magic of the wilds.

WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC. Sir Gilbert Parker.

In this charming story Sir Gilbert Parker tells of the fortunes of a young adventurer in Canada in the early nineteenth century who claimed to be the son of the great Napoleon. The mystery of his life and his tragic death make up one of the most original and moving of recent romances. The author does for Quebec what in other works he has done for the Western and Northern wilds—he interprets to the world its essential romance.

THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA. Booth Tarkington.

In this book the author of "Monsieur Beaucaire" tells a story of his own country. "The Gentleman from Indiana" is a tale of a young university graduate who becomes a newspaper owner and editor in a Western town, and wages war against "graft" and corruption. His crusade brings him into relations with the girl who had captured his heart at college, and their love story is subtly interwoven with his political campaign. It is one of the best of modern American novels, and readers will delight not only in the stirring drama of the plot, but in the fresh and sympathetic pictures given of the young townships of the West.

THE INVIOLABLE SANCTUARY. George A. Birmingham.

Mr. Birmingham's novel takes us to the west of Ireland. The heroine is a young lady of fifteen, who, with the help of a boy cousin, discovers a mystery in the bay, and lands the whole parish in a bog of intrigue. It is in every way as amusing and delightful as "Spanish Gold" and "The Simpkins Plot."

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CONDENSED LIST.

Arranged alphabetically under Authors' Names.

BAILEY, H. C.
Springtime.
Beaujeu.
BECKE, LOUIS.
Edward Barry, South Sea Pearler.
BELLOC, HILAIRE.
Mr. Clutterbuck's Election.
The Girondin.
BENSON, E. F.
Daisy's Aunt.
The Luck of the Vails.
The Money Market.
The Osbornes.
The Princess Sophia.
BENTLEY, E. C.
Trent's Last Case.
BIRMINGHAM, GEORGE A.
The Simpkins Plot.
The Inviolable Sanctuary.
BLACK, WILLIAM.
White Heather.
BRADDON, Miss.
Lady Audley's Secret.
Vixen.
BRAMAH, ERNEST.
The Secret of the League.
BUCHAN, JOHN.
Prester John.
BURNETT, MRS. F. H.
The Making of a Marchioness.
By The Author of "Elizabeth and
her German Garden."
Princess Priscilla's Fortnight.
CAINE, HALL.
A Son of Hagar.
CAPES, BERNARD.
Jemmy Abercraw.
CARR, M. E.
The Poison of Tongues.
CASTLE, A. and E.
If Youth but Knew.
Incomparable Bellairs.
French Nan.
The Rose of the World.
The Panther's Cub.
CHILDERS, ERSKINE.
The Riddle of the Sands.
CHOLMONDELEY, MARY.
Red Pottage.
CLIFFORD, MRS. W. K.
Woodside Farm.
CONRAD, JOSEPH.
Romance.
COPPING, A.
Gotty and the Guv'nor.
COURLANDER, A.
Mightier than the Sword.
DOUGLAS, GEORGE.
The House with the Green Shutters.
DOYLE, A. CONAN.
The Refugees.
The Great Shadow.
Micah Clarke.
The Sign of Four.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard.
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
DUNCAN, SARA JEANETTE.
Set in Authority.
FALKNER, J. MEADE.
Moonfleet.
FINDLATER, MARY AND JANE.
Crossriggs.
FORREST, R. E.
Eight Days.
FUTRELLE, JACQUES.
The Lady in the Case.
GARNETT, MRS.
The Infamous John Friend.
GISSING, GEORGE.
Odd Women.
Born in Exile.
GRIER, SYDNEY.
The Warden of the Marches.
HARLAND, HENRY.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box.
My Friend Prospero.
HARRADEN, BEATRICE.
Katharine Frensham.
Interplay.
Out of the Wreck I Rise.
HOBBES, JOHN OLIVER.
Love and the Soul-hunters.
HOPE, ANTHONY.
The Intrusions of Peggy.
QuisantÉ.
The King's Mirror.
The God in the Car.
Count Antonio.
The Dolly Dialogues.
The Prisoner of Zenda.
A Man of Mark.
Rupert of Hentzau.
Sophy of Kravonia.
Tristram of Blent.
The Great Miss Driver.
Simon Dale.
Tales of Two People.
HORNUNG, E. W.
Raffles.
Mr. Justice Raffles.
A Thief in the Night: the Last Chronicles of Raffles.
Stingaree.
HYNE, C. J. CUTCLIFFE.
Thompson's Progress.
Mr. Horrocks, Purser.
JACOB, VIOLET.
The Interloper.
JACOBS, W. W.
The Lady of the Barge.
The Skipper's Wooing.
JAMES, HENRY.
The American.
LAWLESS, Hon. EMILY.
Hurrish.
LONDON, JACK.
White Fang.
Adventure.
A Daughter of the Snows.
LORIMER, G. H.
Old Gorgon Graham.
MACNAUGHTAN, S.
The Fortune of Christina M'Nab.
A Lame Dog's Diary.
Selah Harrison.
The Expensive Miss Du Cane.
The Gift.
MACKAY, L. MILLER.
Return of the Emigrant.
MALET, LUCAS.
The Wages of Sin.
The Gateless Barrier.
MARSHALL, ARCHIBALD.
Exton Manor.
MASEFIELD, JOHN.
Captain Margaret.
Multitude and Solitude.
MASON, A. E. W.
Clementina.
The Four Feathers.
The Broken Road.
MERRICK, LEONARD.
The House of Lynch.
The Call from the Past.
MERRIMAN, H. SETON.
The Last Hope.
The Isle of Unrest.
The Vultures.
In Kedar's Tents.
Roden's Corner.
Barlasch of the Guard.
The Velvet Glove.
MORRISON, ARTHUR.
A Child of the Jago.
NICHOLSON, MEREDITH.
The War of the Carolinas.
The House of a Thousand Candles.
NORRIS, FRANK.
The Octopus.
The Pit.
Shanghaied.
OLLIVANT, ALFRED.
Owd Bob.
PAIN, BARRY.
The One Before.
PARKER, SIR GILBERT.
The Battle of the Strong.
The Translation of a Savage.
An Adventurer of the North.
When Valmond came to Pontiac.
The Right of Way.
Donovan Pasha.
The Seats of the Mighty.
PASTURE, Mrs. H. De La.
The Man from America.
The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square.
The Grey Knight.
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN.
The American Prisoner.
The Farm of the Dagger.
PRIOR, JAMES.
Forest Folk.
A Walking Gentleman.
"Q."
Sir John Constantine.
Major Vigoureux.
Shining Ferry.
True Tilda.
Lady Good-for-Nothing.
Hetty Wesley.
RIDGE, W. PETT.
Mrs. Galer's Business.
ROBERTS, MORLEY.
Salt of the Sea.
ROBINS, E.
Come and Find Me.
The Open Question.
SAVILE, FRANK.
The Road.
SEDGWICK, Miss A. D.
Valerie Upton.
SIDGWICK, Mrs. A.
Cynthia's Way.
Cousin Ivo.
SILBERRAD, UNA L.
The Good Comrade.
John Bolsover.
Ordinary People.
SNAITH, J. C.
Fortune.
STEEL, FLORA ANNIE.
The Potter's Thumb.
On the Face of the Waters.
TARKINGTON, BOOTH.
Monsieur Beaucaire, and The Beautiful Lady.
The Gentleman from Indiana.
TWAIN, MARK.
Tom Sawyer.
Huckleberry Finn.
VACHELL, H. A.
John Charity.
The Waters of Jordan.
The Other Side.
The Paladin.
Brothers.
VERNEDE, R. E.
The Pursuit of Mr. Faviel.
WARD, MRS. HUMPHRY.
The Marriage of William Ashe.
Robert Elsmere.
Marcella.
Lady Rose's Daughter.
Sir George Tressady.
Helbeck of Bannisdale.
Eleanor.
WELLS, H. G.
Kipps.
The Food of the Gods.
Love and Mr. Lewisham.
The First Men in the Moon.
The Sleeper Awakes.
The Invisible Man.
The History of Mr. Polly.
The Country of the Blind.
The War in the Air.
WEYMAN, STANLEY J.
The House of the Wolf.
A Gentleman of France.
Sophia.
WHITE, STEWART E.
The Blazed Trail.
Rules of the Game.
WHITEING, RICHARD.
No. 5 John Street.
WILLIAMSON, C. N. and A. M.
The Princess Passes.
Love and the Spy.
The Lightning Conductor.

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