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BY EDMOND ABOUT.

The Fellah.

BY HAMILTON AÏDÉ.

Carr of Carrlyon.

Confidences.

BY MRS. ALEXANDER.

Maid, Wife, or Widow?

Valerie’s Fate.

Blind Fate.

A Life Interest.

Mona’s Choice.

By Woman’s Wit.

BY GRANT ALLEN.

Strange Stories.

Philistia.

Babylon.

The Beckoning Hand.

In All Shades.

For Maimie’s Sake.

The Devil’s Die.

This Mortal Coil.

The Tents of Shem.

The Great Taboo.

Dumaresq’s Daughter.

The Duchess of Powysland.

Blood-Royal.

Ivan Greet’s Masterpiece.

The Scallywag.

At Market Value.

Under Sealed Orders.

BY EDWIN LESTER ARNOLD.

Phra the Phœnician.

BY FRANK BARRETT.

A Recoiling Vengeance.

For Love and Honour.

John Ford; & His Helpmate.

Honest Davie.

A Prodigal’s Progress.

Folly Morrison.

Lieutenant Barnabas.

Found Guilty.

Fettered for Life.

Between Life and Death.

The Sin of Olga Zassoulich.

Little Lady Linton.

Woman of the Iron Bracelets.

The Harding Scandal.

A Missing Witness.

BY SHELSLEY BEAUCHAMP.

Grantley Grange.

BY BESANT AND RICE.

Ready-Money Mortiboy.

With Harp and Crown.

This Son of Vulcan.

My Little Girl.

The Case of Mr. Lucraft.

The Golden Butterfly.

By Celia’s Arbour.

The Monks of Thelema.

’Twas in Trafalgar’s Bay.

The Seamy Side.

The Ten Years’ Tenant.

The Chaplain of the Fleet.

BY WALTER BESANT.

All Sorts & Conditions of Men.

The Captains’ Room.

All in a Garden Fair.

Dorothy Forster.

Uncle Jack.

Children of Gibeon.

World went very well then.

Herr Paulus.

For Faith and Freedom.

To Call her Mine.

The Bell of St. Paul’s.

The Holy Rose.

Armorel of Lyonesse.

St. Katherine’s by the Tower.

The Ivory Gate.

Verbena Camellia Stephanotis.

The Rebel Queen.

Beyond the Dreams of Avarice.

The Revolt of Man.

In Deacon’s Orders.

The Master Craftsman.

The City of Refuge.

BY AMBROSE BIERCE.

In the Midst of Life.

BY FREDERICK BOYLE.

Camp Notes.

Savage Life.

Chronicles of No-Man’s Land.

BY ROBERT BUCHANAN.

The Shadow of the Sword.

A Child of Nature.

God and the Man.

Annan Water.

The New Abelard.

The Martyrdom of Madeline.

Love Me for Ever.

Matt: a Story of a Caravan.

Foxglove Manor.

The Master of the Mine.

The Heir of Linne.

Woman and the Man.

Rachel Dene.

Lady Kilpatrick.

BY BUCHANAN & MURRAY.

The Charlatan.

BY HALL CAINE.

The Shadow of a Crime.

A Son of Hagar.

The Deemster.

BY COMMANDER CAMERON.

Cruise of the ‘Black Prince.’

BY AUSTIN CLARE.

For the Love of a Lass.

BY MRS. ARCHER CLIVE.

Paul Ferroll.

Why Paul Ferroll Killed Wife.

BY MACLAREN COBBAN.

The Cure of Souls.

The Red Sultan.

BY C. ALLSTON COLLINS.

The Bar Sinister.

BY WILKIE COLLINS.

Armadale.

After Dark.

No Name.

A Rogue’s Life.

Antonina.

Hide and Seek.

Basil.

The Dead Secret.

Queen of Hearts.

My Miscellanies.

The Woman in White.

The Moonstone.

Man and Wife.

Poor Miss Finch.

Miss or Mrs.?

The New Magdalen.

The Frozen Deep.

The Law and the Lady.

The Two Destinies.

The Haunted Hotel.

The Fallen Leaves.

Jezebel’s Daughter.

The Black Robe.

Heart and Science.

‘I say No.’

Blind Love.

The Evil Genius.

Little Novels.

The Legacy of Cain.

BY MORTIMER AND F. COLLINS.

Sweet Anne Page.

Transmigration.

From Midnight to Midnight.

A Fight with Fortune.

Sweet and Twenty.

Frances.

The Village Comedy.

You Play Me False.

Blacksmith and Scholar.

BY M. J. COLQUHOUN.

Every Inch a Soldier.

BY DUTTON COOK.

Leo.

Paul Foster’s Daughter.

BY C. EGBERT CRADDOCK.

The Prophet of the Great

Smoky Mountains.

BY MATT CRIM.

Adventures of a Fair Rebel.

BY B. M. CROKER.

Pretty Miss Neville.

Proper Pride.

‘To Let.’

A Bird of Passage.

Diana Barrington.

A Family Likeness.

Village Tales and Jungle Tragedies.

Two Masters.

Mr. Jervis

The Real Lady Hilda.

Married or Single?

Interference.

A Third Person.

BY WILLIAM CYPLES.

Hearts of Gold.

BY ALPHONSE DAUDET.

The Evangelist.

BY ERASMUS DAWSON.

The Fountain of Youth.

BY JAMES DE MILLE.

A Castle in Spain.

BY J. LEITH DERWENT.

Our Lady of Tears.

Circe’s Lovers.

BY DICK DONOVAN.

The Man-hunter.

Caught at Last!

Tracked and Taken.

Who Poisoned Hetty Duncan?

The Man from Manchester.

A Detective’s Triumphs.

In the Grip of the Law.

Wanted!

From Information Received.

Tracked to Doom.

Link by Link.

Suspicion Aroused.

Dark Deeds.

Riddles Read.

Mystery of Jamaica Terrace.

The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch.

BY MRS. ANNIE EDWARDES.

A Point of Honour.

Archie Lovell.

BY M. BETHAM-EDWARDS.

Felicia.

Kitty.

BY EDWARD EGGLESTON.

Roxy.

BY G. MANVILLE FENN.

The New Mistress.

Witness to the Deed.

The Tiger Lily.

The White Virgin.

BY PERCY FITZGERALD.

Bella Donna.

Polly.

The Second Mrs. Tillotson.

Seventy-five Brooke Street.

Never Forgotten.

The Lady of Brantome.

Fatal Zero.

BY PERCY FITZGERALD, &c.

Strange Secrets.

BY ALBANY DE FONBLANQUE.

Filthy Lucre.

BY R. E. FRANCILLON.

Olympia.

One by One.

Queen Cophetua.

A Real Queen.

King or Knave.

Romances of the Law.

Ropes of Sand.

A Dog and his Shadow.

BY HAROLD FREDERIC.

Seth’s Brother’s Wife.

The Lawton Girl.

PREFACED BY BARTLE FRERE.

Pandurang Hari.

BY EDWARD GARRETT.

The Capel Girls.

BY GILBERT GAUL.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.

BY CHARLES GIBBON.

Robin Gray.

For Lack of Gold.

What will the World Say?

In Honour Bound.

In Love and War.

For the King.

Queen of the Meadow.

In Pastures Green.

The Flower of the Forest.

A Heart’s Problem.

The Braes of Yarrow.

The Golden Shaft.

Of High Degree.

The Dead Heart.

By Mead and Stream.

Heart’s Delight.

Fancy Free.

Loving a Dream.

A Hard Knot.

Blood-Money.

BY WILLIAM GILBERT.

James Duke.

Dr. Austin’s Guests.

The Wizard of the Mountain.

BY ERNEST GLANVILLE.

The Lost Heiress.

The Fossicker.

A Fair Colonist.

BY REV. S. BARING GOULD.

Eve.

Red Spider.

BY HENRY GREVILLE.

A Noble Woman.

Nikanor.

BY CECIL GRIFFITH.

Corinthia Marazion.

BY SYDNEY GRUNDY.

The Days of his Vanity.

BY JOHN HABBERTON.

Brueton’s Bayou.

Country Luck.

BY ANDREW HALLIDAY.

Every-Day Papers.

BY THOMAS HARDY.

Under the Greenwood Tree.

BY BRET HARTE.

An Heiress of Red Dog.

The Luck of Roaring Camp.

Californian Stories.

Gabriel Conroy.

Flip.

Maruja.

A Phyllis of the Sierras.

A Waif of the Plains.

A Ward of the Golden Gate.

BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE.

Garth.

Ellice Quentin.

Sebastian Strome.

Dust.

Fortune’s Fool.

Beatrix Randolph.

Miss Cadogna.

Love—or a Name.

David Poindexter’s Disappearance.

The Spectre of the Camera.

BY SIR ARTHUR HELPS.

Ivan de Biron.

BY G. A. HENTY.

Rujub, the Juggler.

BY HENRY HERMAN.

A Leading Lady.

BY HEADON HILL.

Zambra, the Detective.

BY JOHN HILL.

Treason-Felony.

BY MRS. CASHEL HOEY.

The Lover’s Creed.

BY MRS. GEORGE HOOPER.

The House of Raby.

BY MRS. HUNGERFORD.

In Durance Vile.

A Maiden all Forlorn.

A Mental Struggle.

Marvel.

A Modern Circe.

Lady Verner’s Flight.

The Red-House Mystery.

The Three Graces.

An Unsatisfactory Lover.

Lady Patty.

Nora Creina.

The Professor’s Experiment.

April’s Lady.

Peter’s Wife.

BY MRS. ALFRED HUNT.

Thornicroft’s Model.

The Leaden Casket.

Self-Condemned.

That Other Person.

BY WILLIAM JAMESON.

My Dead Self.

BY HARRIETT JAY.

The Dark Colleen.

The Queen of Connaught.

BY MARK KERSHAW.

Colonial Facts and Fictions.

BY R. ASHE KING.

A Drawn Game.

‘The Wearing of the Green.’

Passion’s Slave.

Bell Barry.

BY EDMOND LEPELLETIER.

Madame Sans-Gêne.

BY JOHN LEYS.

The Lindsays.

BY E. LYNN LINTON.

Patricia Kemball.

Atonement of Leam Dundas.

The World Well Lost.

Under which Lord?

With a Silken Thread.

The Rebel of the Family.

‘My Love!’

Ione.

Paston Carew.

Sowing the Wind.

The One Too Many.

Dulcie Everton.

BY HENRY W. LUCY.

Gideon Fleyce.

By Justin McCARTHY.

Dear Lady Disdain.

The Waterdale Neighbours.

My Enemy’s Daughter.

A Fair Saxon.

Linley Rochford.

Miss Misanthrope.

Donna Quixote.

The Comet of a Season.

Maid of Athens.

Camiola: a Girl with Fortune.

The Dictator.

Red Diamonds.

The Riddle Ring.

BY HUGH MacCOLL.

Mr. Stranger’s Sealed Packet.

BY GEORGE MACDONALD.

Heather and Snow.

BY MRS. MACDONELL.

Quaker Cousins.

BY KATHARINE S. MACQUOID.

The Evil Eye.

Lost Rose.

BY W. H. MALLOCK.

The New Republic.

Romance of the 19th Century.

BY J. MASTERMAN.

Half-a-dozen Daughters.

BY BRANDER MATTHEWS.

A Secret of the Sea.

BY L. T. MEADE.

A Soldier of Fortune.

BY LEONARD MERRICK.

The Man who was Good.

BY JEAN MIDDLEMASS.

Touch and Go.

Mr. Dorillion.

BY MRS. MOLESWORTH.

Hathercourt Rectory.

BY J. E. MUDDOCK.

Stories Weird and Wonderful.

The Dead Man’s Secret.

From the Bosom of the Deep.

BY D. CHRISTIE MURRAY.

A Life’s Atonement.

Joseph’s Coat.

Val Strange.

A Model Father.

Coals of Fire.

Hearts.

By the Gate of the Sea.

The Way of the World.

A Bit of Human Nature.

First Person Singular.

Cynic Fortune.

Old Blazer’s Hero.

Bob Martin’s Little Girl.

Time’s Revenges.

A Wasted Crime.

In Direst Peril.

Mount Despair.

A Capful o’ Nails.

BY D. CHRISTIE MURRAY AND HENRY HERMAN.

One Traveller Returns.

Paul Jones’s Alias.

The Bishops’ Bible.

BY HENRY MURRAY.

A Game of Bluff.

A Song of Sixpence.

BY HUME NISBET.

‘Bail Up!’

Dr. Bernard St. Vincent.

BY W. E. NORRIS.

Saint Ann’s.

Billy Bellew.

BY ALICE O’HANLON.

The Unforeseen.

Chance? or Fate?

BY GEORGES OHNET.

Doctor Rameau.

A Last Love.

A Weird Gift.

BY MRS. OLIPHANT.

Whiteladies.

The Primrose Path.

Greatest Heiress in England.

BY MRS. ROBERT O’REILLY.

Phœbe’s Fortunes.

BY OUIDA.

Held in Bondage.

Strathmore.

Chandos.

Under Two Flags.

Idalia.

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage.

Tricotrin.

Puck.

Folle-Farine.

A Dog of Flanders.

Pascarèl.

Signa.

In a Winter City.

Ariadnê.

Moths.

Friendship.

Pipistrello.

Bimbi.

In Maremma.

Wanda.

Frescoes.

Princess Napraxine.

Two Little Wooden Shoes.

A Village Commune.

Othmar.

Guilderoy.

Ruffino.

Syrlin.

Santa Barbara.

Two Offenders.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos.

BY MARGARET AGNES PAUL.

Gentle and Simple.

BY JAMES PAYN.

Lost Sir Massingberd.

A Perfect Treasure.

Bentinck’s Tutor.

Murphy’s Master.

A County Family.

At Her Mercy.

A Woman’s Vengeance.

Cecil’s Tryst.

The Clyffards of Clyffe.

The Family Scapegrace.

The Foster Brothers.

The Best of Husbands.

Found Dead.

Walter’s Word.

Halves.

Fallen Fortunes.

What He Cost Her.

Humorous Stories.

Gwendoline’s Harvest.

Like Father, Like Son.

A Marine Residence.

Married Beneath Him.

Mirk Abbey.

Not Wooed, but Won.

£200 Reward.

Less Black than Painted.

By Proxy.

High Spirits.

Under One Roof.

Carlyon’s Year.

A Confidential Agent.

Some Private Views.

A Grape from a Thorn.

From Exile.

Kit: a Memory.

For Cash Only.

The Canon’s Ward.

The Talk of the Town.

Holiday Tasks.

Glow-worm Tales.

The Mystery of Mirbridge.

The Burnt Million.

The Word and the Will.

A Prince of the Blood.

Sunny Stories.

A Trying Patient.

BY EDGAR A. POE.

The Mystery of Marie Roget.

BY MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED.

The Romance of a Station.

The Soul of Countess Adrian.

Outlaw and Lawmaker.

Christina Chard.

Mrs. Tregaskiss.

BY E. C. PRICE.

Valentina.

Gerald.

Mrs. Lancaster’s Rival.

The Foreigners.

BY RICHARD PRYCE.

Miss Maxwell’s Affections.

BY CHARLES READE.

It is Never Too Late to Mend.

Hard Cash.

Peg Woffington.

Christie Johnstone.

Griffith Gaunt.

Put Yourself in His Place.

The Double Marriage.

Love Me Little, Love Me Long.

Foul Play.

The Cloister and the Hearth.

The Course of True Love.

The Autobiography of a Thief.

A Terrible Temptation.

The Wandering Heir.

A Simpleton.

A Woman-Hater.

Singleheart and Doubleface.

Good Stories of Man, &c.

The Jilt.

A Perilous Secret.

Readiana.

BY MRS. J. H. RIDDELL.

Her Mother’s Darling.

The Uninhabited House.

Weird Stories.

Fairy Water.

Prince Wales’s Garden Party.

Mystery in Palace Gardens.

The Nun’s Curse.

Idle Tales.

BY AMÉLIE RIVES.

Barbara Dering.

BY F. W. ROBINSON.

Women are Strange.

The Hands of Justice.

The Woman in the Dark.

BY JAMES RUNCIMAN.

Skippers and Shellbacks.

Grace Balmaign’s Sweetheart.

Schools and Scholars.

BY DORA RUSSELL.

A Country Sweetheart.

BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.

Round the Galley Fire.

On the Fo’k’sle Head.

In the Middle Watch.

A Voyage to the Cape.

A Book for the Hammock.

Mystery of the ‘Ocean Star.’

Romance of Jenny Harlowe.

An Ocean Tragedy.

My Shipmate Louise.

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea.

The Phantom Death.

The Good Ship ‘Mohock.’

Is he the Man?

Heart of Oak.

The Convict Ship.

The Tale of the Ten.

The Last Entry.

BY ALAN ST. AUBYN.

A Fellow of Trinity.

The Junior Dean.

The Master of St. Benedict’s.

To his Own Master.

Orchard Damerel.

In the Face of the World.

The Tremlett Diamonds.

BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.

Gaslight and Daylight.

BY GEORGE R. SIMS.

The Ring o’ Bells.

Mary Jane’s Memoirs.

Mary Jane Married.

Tales of To-day.

Dramas of Life.

Tinkletop’s Crime.

Zeph: a Circus Story.

My Two Wives.

Memoirs of a Landlady.

Scenes from the Show.

The Ten Commandments.

Dagonet Abroad.

Rogues and Vagabonds.

BY ARTHUR SKETCHLEY.

A Match in the Dark.

BY HAWLEY SMART.

Without Love or Licence.

The Plunger.

Beatrice and Benedick.

Long Odds.

The Master of Rathkelly.

BY T. W. SPEIGHT.

The Mysteries of Heron Dyke.

The Golden Hoop.

By Devious Ways.

Hoodwinked.

Back to Life.

The Loudwater Tragedy.

Burgo’s Romance.

Quittance in Full.

A Husband from the Sea.

BY R. A. STERNDALE.

The Afghan Knife.

BY R. LOUIS STEVENSON.

New Arabian Nights.

BY BERTHA THOMAS.

Proud Maisie.

The Violin-player.

Cressida.

BY WALTER THORNBURY.

Tales for the Marines.

Old Stories Re-told.

BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

The Way We Live Now.

Mr. Scarborough’s Family.

The Golden Lion of Granpere.

The American Senator.

Frau Frohmann.

Marion Fay.

Kept in the Dark.

The Land-Leaguers.

John Caldigate.

BY FRANCES E. TROLLOPE.

Anne Furness.

Mabel’s Progress.

Like Ships upon the Sea.

BY T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.

Diamond Cut Diamond.

BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE.

Farnell’s Folly.

BY IVAN TURGENIEFF, &c.

Stories from Foreign Novels.

BY MARK TWAIN.

Tom Sawyer.

A Tramp Abroad.

The Stolen White Elephant.

Pleasure Trip on Continent.

The Gilded Age.

Huckleberry Finn.

Life on the Mississippi.

The Prince and the Pauper.

Mark Twain’s Sketches.

A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.

The £1,000,000 Bank-note.

BY SARAH TYTLER.

Noblesse Oblige.

Citoyenne Jacqueline.

The Huguenot Family.

What She Came Through.

Beauty and the Beast.

The Bride’s Pass.

Saint Mungo’s City.

Disappeared.

Lady Bell.

Buried Diamonds.

The Blackball Ghosts.

BY C. C. FRASER-TYTLER.

Mistress Judith.

BY ALLEN UPWARD.

The Queen against Owen.

The Prince of Balkistan.

BY ARTEMUS WARD.

Artemus Ward Complete.

BY AARON WATSON AND LILLIAS WASSERMANN.

The Marquis of Carabas.

BY WILLIAM WESTALL.

Trust-Money.

BY MRS. F. H. WILLIAMSON.

A Child Widow.

BY J. S. WINTER.

Cavalry Life.

Regimental Legends.

BY H. F. WOOD.

Passenger from Scotland Yard.

Englishman of the Rue Caïn.

BY CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY.

Rachel Armstrong.

BY EDMUND YATES.

Castaway.

The Forlorn Hope.

Land at Last.

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