OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG
The
Amateur Cracksman
30th Thousand. 12 mo, $1.25. The titles of the stories are:
I. The Ides of March
II. A Costume Piece
III. Gentlemen and Players
IV. Le Premier Pas
V. Wilful Murder
VI. Nine Points of the Law
VII. The Return Match
VIII. The Gift of the Emperor
"For sheer excitement and inventive genius the burglarian exploits of 'The Amateur Cracksman' carry off the palm. Raffles is as distinct and convincing a creation as Sherlock Holmes."—The Bookman.
"Raffles is amazing; his resource is perfect; he talks like a gentleman and acts like one, except when occupied with pressing business in another man's house, at midnight, and naturally he has a 'cool nerve,' a nerve positively arctic. They all have nerves like that, these Raffleses."
Dead Men Tell No Tales
A Novel. 12 mo, $1.23
"In this novel, as in the previous ones from Mr. Hornung's pen, there is a wealth of well-handled incidents. It is story-telling of the most direct kind and holds the attention from the first page to the last. Mr. Hornung seems to us in each succeeding book from his pen to gain in confidence and authority, and we do not hesitate to place him among the first of the comparatively new writers who must be reckoned with."—Literature.
OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG
Some Persons Unknown
"In about half-a-dozen cases the scene is laid in Australia, and the dramatic and tragic aspects of Colonial life are treated by Mr. Hornung with that happy union of vigor and sympathy which has stood him in such good stead in his earlier novels."—London Spectator.
In the Ivory Series, Each 16mop, 75 cents :
The Boss of Taroomba
"There are passages in E. W. Hornung's latest story, 'The Boss of Taroomba,' which remind us by their vividness and fantastic quality of Stevenson in some of his South Sea Island tales. . . . The hero is an uncommon creation even for fiction."—Chicago Times-Herald.
A Bride from the Bush
"Mr. E. W. Hornung is one of the most successful delineators of Bush life."—Chicago Tribune.
Irralie's Bushranger
"A capital little story of Australian love and adventure. There is no flagging in the press and stir of the story."—The Nation.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG
The Rogue's March
A Romance. 12mo, $1.50
"Mr. Hornung has succeeded admirably in his object: his Australian scenes are a veritable nightmare; they sear the imagination, and it will be some time before we get Hookey Simpson, the clank of the chains, and the hero's degradation off our mind."—London Saturday Review.
"Vividly and vigorously told."—London Academy,
Each 12mo, $1,25:
My Lord Duke
"Mr. Hornung is a natural humorist, and has the art of telling a story."—Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
"It is pleasant to turn to a real story by a real story- writer. Such is 'My Lord Duke.' . . . Its story is its own, both in plot and in characterization. It is a capital little novel."—The Nation.
Young Blood
OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG
"'Peccavi' is at once the most serious and the strongest novel that has issued from Mr, Homung's engaging pen. . . A striking and admirable story." —The Spectator.
PECCAVI
12mo, $1.50
"It must be said that the erring parson is a fine figure, standing aloof, yet never passive in his awful solitude. He works out a grand and unselfish salvation in an heroic way."—The Athenaum.
AT LARGE
$1-50
"Once more, he gives us a book decidedly entertaining to read."—New York Tribune.
"More life and go than in most recent fiction and it is told so well that it has not a single dull page."—San Francisco Chronicle.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
OTHER BOOKS BY MR. HORNUNG
RAFFLES
More Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
With six full-page illustrations, by F. C. YOHN, drawn in a humor in exact harmony with Mr. Hornung's conceptions.
$1.50
CONTENTS
No Sinecure
A Jubilee Present
The Fate of Faustina
The Last Laugh
To Catch a Thief
An Old Flame
The Wrong House
The Knees of the Gods
RAFFLES, the clever, the resourceful, the big-hearted, here appears again in a new series of experiences and adventures that not only prove as absorbing as those in The Amateur Cracksman but exhibit his character in its larger and later developments and bring his interesting career to a heroic conclusion.
The exploits detailed in this book illustrate the author's ability to satisfactorily follow a character of power and ideals such as Raffles possessed, through the intricacies of an environment so unnatural to it, to a consistent and satisfying climax. The final story, disclosing the conclusion of Raffles's career, has not appeared serially and is here first published.
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York