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  EACH VOLUME SOLD SEPARATELY.

  COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS

  TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

  VOL. 3970.

  THE HOUSE OF DEFENCE. BY E. F. BENSON.

  IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

  LEIPZIG: BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ.

  PARIS: LIBRAIRIE CH. GAULON & FILS, 39, RUE MADAME.

  PARIS: THE GALIGNANI LIBRARY, 224, RUE DE RIVOLI, AND AT NICE, 8, AVENUE MASSENA.

  _The Copyright of this Collection is purchased for ContinentalCirculation only, and the volumes may therefore not be introduced into Great Britain or her Colonies._

  (_See also pp. 3-6 of Large Catalogue._)

  Latest Volumes.--June 1907.

  =The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight.= By the author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." 1 vol.--3880.

  The tale of a German Princess who runs away to England to live the simple life accompanied by her aged teacher. The story is a delightful mixture of smiles and tears.

  =The Adventures of Elizabeth in Ruegen.= By the author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." 1 vol.--3881.

  An account of a holiday spent in one of the pleasantest of German island resorts, so plentifully sprinkled with humorous incident as to make the book fascinating even to those unable to travel there except in imagination.

  =A Dazzling Reprobate.= By W. R. H. TROWBRIDGE. 1 v.--3882.

  A very original study of high life and society in England, in which it is shown how hard regeneration is made for a fallen member.

  =The Way of the Spirit.= By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 2 vols.--3883/84.

  A psychological romance and at the same time a tale of modern Egypt, in which a daughter of the ancient kings plays an important and novel _role_.

  "=If Youth but knew!=" By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE. 1 vol.--3885.

  An idyl of Westphalia in the days of Jerome Bonaparte's pinchbeck court and reign. A delicate and pretty love-story.

  =Mr. John Strood.= By PERCY WHITE. 1 vol.--3886.

  A story, written somewhat on the lines of "Mr. Bailey-Martin," of the career of a public man. The snobbishness of the quondam friend who is here supposed to write the biography is cunningly revealed throughout.

  =The Artful Miss Dill.= By F. FRANKFORT MOORE. 1 vol.--3887.

  A modern English romance, the opening scene of which, however, is laid in Caracas, and is of a most stirring nature.

  =Genius Loci=, and =The Enchanted Woods.= By VERNON LEE. 1 vol.--3888.

  A collection of essays and articles on towns and villages in France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland, in which the authoress paints her impressions of their romanticism or interest.

  =The House of Mirth.= By EDITH WHARTON. 2 vols.--3889/90.

  An American society novel in which the hollow life of a certain moneyed clique of New York is admirably described.

  =Ring in the New.= By RICHARD WHITEING. 1 vol.--3891.

  This book might almost be described as socialistic. It is a descriptionof the difficulty experienced at the present day by man or woman ofearning their daily bread.

  =Beyond the Rocks.= By ELINOR GLYN. 1 vol.--3892.

  A love-story, treating of modern English life, by the favourite and well-known authoress of "The Visits of Elizabeth."

  =Fenwick's Career.= By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. 2 vols.--3893/94.

  Mrs. Ward's new book describes the life of an artist in England, the vicissitudes through which he passes, and his ultimate reconciliation with the wife who had abandoned him.