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23 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE PICCADILLY NOVELS continued. Patricia Kemball. By E. LYNN LINTOX. With Frontispiece by G. Du MAURIER. " Displays genuine humour, as well as keen social observation. Enough graphic portraiture and -witty observation to furnish materials for half-a-dozen novels of the ordinary kind." SATURDAY REVIEW. The Atonement of Learn Dundas. By E. LYNN LINTON. With a Frontispiece by HENRY WOODS. " In her narrowness and fur depth, in her boundless loyalty, Jter self-forgetting passion, that exclusiveness of love which is akin to cruelty, and the fierce humility "which is vicarious pride, Leam Dundas is a striking figure. In one quality the authoress has in some measure surpassed herself." PALL MALL GAZ. Tlie Water dale Neighbours. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. My Enemy s Daughter. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. L inley^ Rochford. By JUSTIN MCCA RTHV. A Fair Saxon. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. Dear Lady Disdain. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. The Evil Eye, and other Stories. By KATHARINE S.M ACQUOID. Illustrated by THOMAS R. MACQUOID and PERCY MACQUOID.

  • ' Cameos delicately, if not very minutely or vividly, wrought, and quite finished

enough to give a pleasurable sense of artistic ease and faculty. A word of com- mendation is merited by the illustrations." ACADEMY. Number Seventeen. By HENRY RINCSLEY. Oakshott Castle. By HENRY KINGSLEY. With a Frontispiece by SHIRLEY HODSON. "A brisk and clear north -wind of sentiment sentiment that braces instead oj enervating blows through all his -works, and makes all their readers at once healthier and more glad." SPECTATOR. Open ! Sesame ! By FLORENCE MARRYAT. Illustrated by F. A. FRASER. "A story which arouses and sustains the readers interest to a higher degrei than, perhaps, any of its author' s former -works." GRAPHIC. Whiteladies. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. With Illustrations by A. HOPKINS and H. WOODS. " A pleasant and readable book, written "with practical ease and grace." TIMES. The Best of Husbands. By JAMES PAYN. Illustrated by J. MOYR SMITH. Fallen Fortunes. Ey JAMES PAYN. Halves. By JAMES PAYN. With a Frontispiece by J. MAHONEY. Walter's Word. By JAMES PAYN. Illustrated by J. MOYR SMITH. What he Cost her. By JAMES PAYN. " His novels are always commendable in the sense of art. They also possess another distinct claim to our liking : the girls in them are remarkably cJiarm- insr and true to nature, as most people, we believe^ have the good fortune to observe nature represented by girls." SPECTATOR.