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COPYRIGHT NOVELS
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GUY BOOTHBY.

Dr. Nikola. With about Forty Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, special design, 5s.

"Dr. Nikola" has enchanted hundreds of thousands of readers during its serial course in "The Windsor Magazine."


The Beautiful White Devil. By the Author of "Dr. Nikola," "A Bid for Fortune," etc. With Six Full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s.

A more lively, romantic, and amazing bit of fiction than "The Beautiful White Devil" it would be hard to indicate.... It is full of surprise and fascination for the fiction-lover, and is worthy of the reputation of the creator of the famous Nikola.


A Bid for Fortune; or, Dr. Nikola's Vendetta. With about Fifty Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood and other Artists. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s.

"He never allows the interest to drop from first page to the last.... The plot is highly ingenious, and when once it has fairly thickened, exciting to a degree."—The Times.

"It is impossible to give any idea of the verve and brightness with which the story is told. Mr. Boothby may be congratulated on having produced about the most original novel of the year."—Manchester Courier.


In Strange Company. A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas. With Six Full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, bevelled boards, 5s.

"A capital novel of its kind—the sensational adventurous. It has the quality of life and stir, and will carry the reader with curiosity unabated to the end."—The World.


The Marriage of Esther: A Torres Straits Sketch. With Four Full-page Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s.

"A story full of action, life, and dramatic interest.... There is a vigour and a power of illusion about it that raises it quite above the level of the ordinary novel of adventure."—Manchester Guardian.


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