=The Call of the Blood.= By ROBERT HICHENS. 2 vols.--3919/20.
A Sicilian tragedy, in which an Englishwoman marries a man with the blood of the island in his veins and an unconquerable propensity to revert to the characteristics of its inhabitants.
=Memoirs of my Dead Life.= By GEORGE MOORE. 1 v.--3921.
A series of sketches, in some of which the love-affairs of the author's early life are realistically set before the reader.
=Prisoners.= By MARY CHOLMONDELEY. 2 vols.--3922/23.
Miss Cholmondeley's latest work is a splendid study of the action of remorse. The chivalrous victim immured in an Italian prison must have suffered indeed from an appreciation of the fickleness and weakness of woman.
=Puck of Pook's Hill.= By RUDYARD KIPLING. 1 v.--3924.
This new work consists of a series of incidents and chapters from the older history of Britain, told to two young children by the long-dead actors themselves, with the magic help of the "Oldest Old Thing in England."
=Paul.= By E. F. BENSON. 2 vols.--3925/26.
A powerful psychological romance, in which love, duty and conscience play important parts, and the obscure workings of the feminine mind are laid bare with the author's accustomed skill.
_The Tauchnitz Edition is to be had of all Booksellers and Railway Libraries on the Continent, price M 1,60. or 2 francs per volume. A complete Catalogue of the Tauchnitz edition is attached to this work._
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