We are informed that the following new novels are being added by Mr. Fisher Unwin to his Colonial Library "A Passenger from Calais," by Major Arthur Griffiths. The " World" says of this: " Major Arthur Griffiths is in fine form. We have not seen anything so good in the railway-mystery lino for a long time, and the author has not written anything better worth reading than this story. The story is very clever in invention, and admirably so in its distribution, stem, after the fashion of Wilkie Collins, into separate narratives by persons concerned in the events, an arrangement which gives us excellent character sketches by the several originals themselves."
"Rose of Lone Farm," by Eleanor G. Hayden. This is a story of rustic life. ©The pictures of country scones and country life which it contains are," says the " World," "admirable, Miss Hayden lainly knows the country, its days and its nights, its sounds and its silence, its seedtime and harvest, and she equally plainly loves well what she has drawn 80 well."
"Two Moods of a Man," by Horace Hutchinson. The simple, gonial straightway stylo of Mr. Horace Hutchinson, his fondness for the things of the open air, and his delight in English charactoristies, make him more like Henry Kingsley asa writer than one might think a modern man could possibly be. It is Henry Kingsley plus a problem. The enthusiastic burst of adjectives with which Mr, Hutchinson introduces us to a beautiful woman is like qn echo of the introduction of (say) Alice Brentwood in "Gooffcey Hamlyn." On the other hand, what could be more modern than this case of a man with two moods, who loves two women? Or what, rather, could be more modern than the admission and discussion of that very ancient and com-0? The story, which opens with deceptive lightness, and seems to be leading us to a tale of roving, caravan-dwelling existence on the country-sides, turns to a very melancholy drama. of entangled hearts when it becomes plain that the hero (a modern hero full of human weakness) is not singly devoted to the beautiful child of Nature whom he introduces as his wife. Mr. Hutchinson makes a very good story of this material, and the thing we feel most thankful for is the breath of the Downs that seems to blow all' through a novel whose theme might have been handled in sickly style enough."—" The Outlook."
"Grand Relations," by J. S. Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher has a pretty wit and a sound notion of comedy. He gives us a rited story, of, farming life in Yorkshire, where, it seems, the lads and lasses are long-headed even iit love. The book is marked throughout by buoyant good-nature, unaffected humour, witty dialogue, and genial yet incisive caricature, which
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