"The leading characters in this typically modern tale are very well drawn, and the author has distanced all her fellow-novelists of her own sex in the delineation of a woman whose heartlessness may be truly called devilish. The strength of this portrait is remarkable. The other woman is effective too, and the tangle of the relations of the three is put right by a device of startling originality."--_World._

"Few cleverer books have come under our notice for many months past."--_Daily Telegraph._

"A story with the one supreme merit of originality."--_Daily Chronicle._

"Another study of the New Woman, and a most brilliant and convincing study. Celia Adair is almost an inspiration. Such a woman has never been drawn with more absolute truthfulness.... A very powerful and pathetic piece of work."--_Speaker._

"A very clever story; ... it is on the crest of the wave."--_Review of Reviews._

"Had we space, we should like to make a good many quotations from the sayings of Celia. Her principles are abominable, and her morals are of the laxest; but many of her remarks are original, pungent, and entertaining. A good deal of thought has evidently been expended upon this book,"--_Saturday Review._

THE PENTAMERONE;

OR,

=The Tale of Tales=.

_BEING A TRANSLATION FROM THE NEAPOLITAN._

BY THE LATE

CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD BURTON, K.C.M.G.

A limited Edition in Two Volumes, demy 8vo, 3 3s.

Prospectus on application.

NEW WORK BY BARRY PAIN.

THE KINDNESS OF THE CELESTIAL.

By the Author of "In a Canadian Canoe," etc.

"Has a quaintness and distinction of its own, an elusive quality of style, a personal touch, that lends to it a whimsical fascination,"--_Daily News._

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

IN A CANADIAN CANOE.

"The pleasant and even remarkable book which Mr. Barry Pain has contributed to the Whitefriars Library. The best thing in the book, to our mind, is 'The Celestial Grocery,' a quaint and thoroughly original blending of effervescent humour with grim pathos."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"Mr. Barry Pain has a decided sense of humour. The best things in the volume are the classical burlesques grouped under the title of 'The Nine Muses minus One.' They are really clever and full of _esprit_."--_Academy._

"Nor is he deficient in fancy, and 'The Celestial Grocery' is as whimsical as it is fresh. 'Bill' is in yet another vein, and proves that Mr. Pain can handle the squalor of reality: while the last half of 'The Girl and the Beetle,' the best of the book, suggests a certain comprehension of character."--_National Observer._

"An original worker, a man who copies no one either in treatment or style--this, his first volume, should find a wide popularity."--_The Review of Reviews._

"If you want a really refreshing book, a book whose piquant savour and quaint originality of style are good for jaded brains, buy and read _In a Canadian Canoe_.... There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight, and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour. As for 'The Celestial Grocery,' I can only say that it is in its way a masterpiece."--_Punch._

STORIES AND INTERLUDES.

"Mr. Pain has a delicate fancy and a graceful style, a bitter-sweet humour, and a plentiful endowment of 'the finer perceptions.'"_--Punch._

"Amazingly clever.... Teems with satire and good things."--_Speaker._

"'The Magic Morning,' though dealing with a young city man and his wife, has the atmosphere of far-away dreaminess which is so charming in some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories."--_Saturday Review._

"There is something delightfully, because unsatisfactorily, fascinating in these stories, with their touch of _diablerie_, their elusiveness."--_National Review._

"If we laugh less over these pages than over the grotesque absurdities that abounded in the former collection of sketches, we are the more fascinated by the quiet subtlety of their humour, their irony and pathos."--_Evening News and Post._

"There is a great charm about these stories and interludes."--_Vanity Fair._

"Full of charm, fantasy, and pathos."--_Ladies' Pictorial._

"The book as a whole is decidedly clever."--_Guardian._