A BOOK OF GREAT INTEREST.

At all Booksellers' and Libraries. SECOND EDITION.

RUDYARD KIPLING:

THE MAN AND HIS WORK,

Being an attempt at Appreciation. By G. F. MONKSHOOD. With a Portrait of Mr. Kipling, and an Autograph Letter to the Author in facsimile. Crown 8vo, crimson buckram, gilt top, 5/- net.

A FEW OF MANY PRESS OPINIONS.

Daily Telegraph.-(Mr. W. L. COURTNEY in "Books of the Day.")—"He writes fluently, and has genuine enthusiasm for his subject, and an intimate acquaint ance with his work. Moreover, his book has been submitted to Mr. Kipling, whose characteristic letter to the author is set forth in the Preface.... Of Mr. Kipling's heroes Mr. Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting." (Here follows a long extract.)

Scotsman. "This well-informed volume... is plainly sincere. It is thoroughly well studied, and takes pains to answer all the questions that are usually put about Mr. Kipling. The writer's enthusiasm carries both himself and his reader along in the most agreeable style.... One way and another, his book is full of interest; those who wish to talk about Mr. Kipling will find it invaluable, while the thousands of his admirers will read it through with delighted sympathy."

Western Daily Press. "A very praiseworthy attempt, and by a writer imbued with a fervent esteem for his subject.... This valuation of the work of our most virile Empire author should hold the attention of those who have well studied the subject and can appreciate accordingly."

Sun.-"The author has carefully compiled a lot of most interesting matter, which he has edited with care and conscientiousness, and the result is a volume which every lover of Kipling can read with pleasure."

Spectator.-"It is very readable. It tells us some things which we might not otherwise have known, and puts together in a convenient form many things which are of common knowledge."

Outlook.-"SOMETHING MORE than an attempt at appreciation. . . . Mr. Monkshood has written what all the young men at home and abroad who treasure Mr. Kipling's writings think, but have not expressed. The volume is a striking testimony to the hold which work that is clean and sane and virile has upon the rising generation. And for this we cannot be sufficiently thankful."

Globe. "It has at the basis both knowledge and enthusiasm-knowledge of the works estimated and enthusiasm for them.... This book may be accepted as a generous exposition of Mr. Kipling's merits as a writer. We can well believe that it will have many interested and approving readers."

Irish Times.-"A well-thought-out and earnest appreciation of the great writer and his works."

Academy.-"The book should give its subject pleasure, for Mr. Monkshood is very keen and cordial. His criticisms have some shrewdness too. Here is a passage...' (Long quotation follows.)

Sunday Times.-"Sure to attract much attention. In it we are given a sketch of Mr. Kipling's career and the story of his various works, along with some sane and balanced criticism.... The book is written brightly, thoughtfully, and informingly."

Bookseller. "It is acute in perception, and sympathetic to the verge of worship, with just as much criticism as will allow that the hero has his limitations. ... Mr. Monkshood's well-informed and well-written critique possesses undoubted ability and attraction."

Yorkshire Herald.-"This work, which is highly appreciative, will be received with enthusiasm.... From this point the biography becomes even more interesting. ... The author deals at length with Kipling's works, and with sufficient forcefulness and originality to hold the reader's attention throughout. The biography has undoubted merit and will be largely read."

A TRIP TO
TO PARADOXIA,

AND OTHER HUMOURS OF THE HOUR.
Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction.
BY T. H. S. ESCOTT,

Author of "England: Its People, Polity, and Pursuits,"
"Personal Forces of the Period," &c. &c.

Crown 8vo, art cloth, cover designed by W. S. Rogers, 5/– net.

Dally Telegraph.-"It is paying no small compliment to Mr. Escott to say that the mantle of Greville-Murray has manifestly descended upon his shoulders. In delicacy of humour and subtlety of treatment A Trip to Paradoxia' may rank as a latter-day supplement of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece, 'Gulliver's Travels."" Observer.-"An entertaining skit; bright, and eminently readable."

Newcastle Leader.-"Messrs. Greening are fortunate in being the publishers of a volume so humorous, so dexterous, written with such knowledge of men and affairs, and with such solidity and power of style as Mr. T. H. S. Escott's 'A Trip to Paradoxia.'"

St. James's Gazette.-" Brightly written, satirising certain aspects of society and public life.... Will make time pass quickly and agreeably."

Western Morning News. "Exceedingly clever. Witty and humorous satire, lightly hitting off some flying events of the hour."

Atheneum.-"He constantly suggests real episodes and real persons. There are a good many rather pretty epígrams scattered through Mr. Escott's pages."

Scotsman.-"A bright, witty, and amusing volume, which will entertain every. body who takes it up."

Literature.-"Mr. Escott's style when in lighter vein is well known, and this book will provide amusing reading."

Black and White.-"Lively and amusing. Mr. Escott's book makes pleasant reading."

Sheffield Telegraph.-"There runs through all a vein of good-natured irony, which, in quasi-fictitious disguise, shows up our English follies and in consistencies. It is done without bitterness or cruelty, but it is effective."

Globe.-"Very thinly veiled indeed is the sarcasm which Mr. Escott aims at the weaknesses of our present policy. Eminently bright and genial are the method and tone of these contemporary pictures."

Glasgow Herald.-" Extremely piquant and entertaining."

Catholic Times.-"A piece of work which evinces great cleverness, and also great good sense. Quiet fun is abundant. Mr. Escott's book should prove a source of great interest to M.P.'s during their hours of relaxation."

North British Daily Mail.-"The humour of some of the hits is irresistible, and the satire well merited and pungent enough to be thoroughly and enjoyably stimulating.... The reader cannot help feeling the charm of the author's sponta neous humour, his shrewd observation on humours of the hour, and his gossipy opinions of latter-day institutions and customs."

Sunday Times.-"Readers who delight in satire and sarcasm will find much to delight them.... All sides of contemporary life are touched upon with a lightness and sureness to which the author has long since accustomed us in his carlier volumes."

Cork Herald.-"Mr. Escott is a consummate master of this particular style of writing, which affords a wide field for his talent for novelty. One is attracted and fascinated by the wealth of imagination and the force of contrast employed, as one is amused with the quiet humour, and the pictures which are almost lifelike in truth. Some of the sketches are exceedingly vivid and pretty, and all are clever in the last degree."

Public Opinion.-"Mr. T. H. S. Escott throws abundant humour blended with pungent sarcasm into his work, making his pictures very agreeable reading to all but the victims he has selected, and whose weaknesses he so skilfully lays bare. But the very clever manner in which the writer hits the foibles and the follies of his fellows must create admiration and respect even from those who view his satire with a wintry smile. We like his writing, his power of discernment, and his high literary style."

A POWERFUL AND BRILLIANT NOVEL BY AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR.

THE HYPOCRITE.

A STORY OF MODERN LIFE IN OXFORD AND LONDON. Fourth Edition now ready, with a new Preface.

Crown 8vo, Art Cloth, a/6.

This book has been attributed in the press to many celebrated writers, including Miss Marie Corelli, Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), Mr. R. S. Hichens, Lord Alfred Douglas, Mr. R. I. Power-Berrey, Mr. Clement Scott, and Mr. Oscar Wilde.

The publishers beg to state that all rumours and statements as to the authorship of this book are premature and unauthorised.

A FEW OF MANY PRESS OPINIONS.

Daily Telegraph.-"A book by an anonymous author always arouses a certain inquiry, and when the book is clever and original the interest becomes keen, and conjecture is rife, endowing the most unlikely people with authorship.... It is very brilliant, very forcible, very sad. . . . It is perfect in its way, in style clear, sharp, and forcible, the dialogue epigrammatic and sparkling. Enough has

been said to show that 'The Hypocrite' is a striking and powerful piece of work, and that its author has established his claim to be considered a writer of originality and brilliance."

Daily Graphic.-"A very moral book."

Public Opinion.-"By an oversight this clever book has been overlooked, and we think it due to the unknown author to offer our humble apologies for the unintentional neglect.... This tragic incident brings to an end one of the most remarkable works that have appeared in 1898."

Court Circular.-"The work is decidedly clever, full of ready wit, sparkling epigram, and cutting sarcasm.'

Echo. "The story is thoroughly interesting, the wit and epigram of the writing are not to be denied, and altogether 'The Hypocrite' is so brilliant that it can only be fittingly compared with 'The Green Carnation' or 'The Babe B.A.""

Morning Leader. "A brilliant book... evidently the work of a young, powerful, and subtle brain."

Morning Post.-"It is entitled to be regarded as one of the clever books of the day. The writer shows artistic perception. He maintains throughout an atmosphere perfectly in harmony with the idea that has suggested his work."

Birmingham Post.-"The work is remarkably clever; it is self-consistent; it is

strong."

London Morning.-"A remarkable book.... Clever the book undoubtedly is. Its brutally frank analysis of the temperament of a man with brain and mind hopelessly diseased lifts the author out of the common rut of novelists, and stamps him as a writer of power."

Sheffield Telegraph.-"It is always clever, and often even more than merely clever."

Liverpool Courier.-"A genuinely clever book. Furthermore, it is a book with a wholesome moral vividly enforced."

...

Lady.-"Whoever the author may be, he has the right literary method, his work is absolutely realistic, his style is fluent and distinctive, and he has the rare faculty of gripping the reader's attention at the outset, and retaining it to the very last. The Hypocrite' is something more than a remarkable novel; it is, in effect, a sermon, conveying a definite message to those who have the wit to understand it. Liverpool Review.-"The Hypocrite' is a fine novel. If the writer is young, and the vigour of his work suggests that he is, he is the happy possessor of a gift of intuition which is not equalled by our greatest living authors. His story is the tersest, the keenest, and most fascinating study in mental and physical degeneration that we have encountered within recent years. A book with a purpose of this kind must necessarily dabble in cesspools, but in spite of this, and Messrs. Mudie, 'The Hypocrite' is actually a highly moral work, which will act as an encouragement to the healthy to avoid evil, and as an incentive to the evil to return to the ways of health.... It is a book to be read, to be respected, and to be recommended. It will enthral you, it will horrify you, and it will do you good."

BYE-WAYS OF CRIME.

With some Stories from the Black Museum.

BY R. J. POWER-BERREY.

Profusely Illustrated by W. S. ROGERS and E. J. SMITH.
Crown 8vo, Art Cloth, a/6.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS.

Outlook. "Decidedly you should read Mr. Power-Berrey's interesting book, taking laugh and shudder as they come.'

Literature."The book contains many interesting stories and new observations, illustrated by pictures, on the modus operandi of swindlers."

Spectator.-"Very realistic accounts of various methods of crimes, all useful information, for it puts a reader on his guard."

Scotsman. "A most interesting account of the various dodges adopted by criminals in effecting their purposes."

Weekly Times-"A cleverly written manual of useful information about the methods of pickpockets, burglars, and other criminals."

Whitehall Review.-"A volume which proves remarkably entertaining, and one which gives much insight into the habits and methods of the fraternity whose chief occupation in life appears to be to rifle, rob, and plunder."

Westminster Budget.-"The book, in fact, brings together a good deal of knowledge of the bye-ways of crime, and furnishes many facts that have hitherto been the secrets of the crime fraternity. Those who are interested in learning about the workshops of crime have here an opportunity of doing so."

Sheffield Independent.-"We do not remember to have ever seen a more popularly written summary of the methods of thieves than this bright and chatty volume. It is the work of a writer who evidently has a most intimate knowledge of the criminal classes, and who can carry on a plain narrative briskly and forcibly. The book fascinates by its freshness and unusualness."

Critic. "Mr. Power-Berrey's book is a straightforward and simply written account of the manners and customs of criminals of all kinds, from the armed burglar to the humble thimble-rigger. Much of the information contained in the book will be new to the greater part of the public. Clear illustrations of the various methods of picking the pocket and so forth add to its value; and he who has run through the chatty little volume will be foolish indeed if he fail to preserve his property unarmed."

Daily News Weekly.-"Mr. R. J. Power-Berrey has written a very interesting book on 'The Bye-ways of Crime,' in which he gives some stories suggested by the implements which are kept in what is known as the 'Black Museum at Scotland Yard. It is with the idea of enlightening the public as to the ways of criminals that the writer sets forth their methods of working.... Few people are aware of the extraordinary and, to a large extent, historic collection of criminal relics that are kept at Scotland Yard, . . . and are described in this book."

Liverpool Review.-"In days when the felon is being paraded in innumerable and romanciful periodicals as a hero, a practical little volume like 'The Bye-ways of Crime' will be of great interest to a very large public. This is no fanciful production, but a clear, dispassionate revelation of the dodges of the professional criminal-the pickpocket, the burglar, the card-sharper, the coiner, the forger, the shoplifter, and the welsher. Illustrated by numerous clever pen-and-ink sketches, Mr. Power. Berrey's excellent work is useful as well as interesting, for it will certainly not assist the pilferer to have all his little tricks made public property in this lucid and easily rememberable style."

GENERAL LITERATURE, CRITICISM, POETRY, ETC.

English Writers of To-Day:

Being a Series of Monographs on living Authors. Each volume is written by a competent authority, and each subject is treated in an appreciative, yet critical, manner. The following are the first volumes in the Series:

Rudyard Kipling. The Man and His Work. Being

an attempt at an “Appreciation." By G. F. MONKSHOOD, Author of "Woman and The Wits," "My Lady Ruby," etc. Containing a portrait of Mr Kipling and an autograph letter to the author in facsimile. Second Impression. Crown 8vo, buckram, gilt lettered, top edge gilt, 5s. nett.

Daily Telegraph.-"He writes fluently, and he has genuine enthusiasm for his subject, and an intimate acquaintance with his work. Moreover, the book has been submitted to Mr Kipling, whose characteristic letter to the author is set forth on the preface... Of Kipling's heroes Mr Monkshood has a thorough understanding, and his remarks on them are worth quoting" (extract follows).

Globe-"It has at the basis of it both knowledge and enthusiasm-knowledge of the works estimated and enthusiasm for them. This book may be accepted as a generous exposition of Mr Kipling's merits as a writer. We can well believe that it will have many interested and approving readers."

Scotsman.-"This well-informed volume is plainly sincere. It is thoroughly well studied, and takes pains to answer all the questions that are usually put about Mr Kipling. The writer's enthusiasm carries both himself and his reader along in the most agreeable style. One way and another his book is full of interest, and those who wish to talk about Kipling will find it invaluable, while the thousands of his admirers will read it