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FICTION

Critics of literature seldom succeed as creative artists and so it is specially remarkable that the highest authorities give even more unqualified praise to the fiction of our members than to their essays.  We need not emphasize further our lack of appreciation for the literary value of “best-sellers”; our aim has not been to produce topical tracts for the times but novels that will survive.  It is more to us that competent critics should compare Mr. Powys’ fiction to that of Hardy, Dostoievsky and Emily Bronte than that the public should buy it by the hundred thousand.  Those who are not convinced that “you can place ‘Wood and Stone’ unhesitatingly at the side of Dostoievsky’s masterpieces” should reflect that this is not the over-enthusiasm of “America’s newest Publisher” but the verdict of a London publisher who has long held a pre-eminent position; it is therefore peculiarly satisfactory to point out that our first novel “Wood and Stone” was

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WILLIAM HEINEMANN G. ARNOLD SHAW

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FICTION

BY IAN CAMPBELL HANNAH
QUAKER-BORN, A ROMANCE OF THE GREAT WAR............ 1.35

  BY I.B.  STOUGHTON HOLBORN
    THE CHILD OF THE MOAT, A story of 1557 for girls... 1.25
    “Of such absorbing interest and literary merit that it
    will doubtless take its place among the classics.”—­ART
    AND ARCHAEOLOGY.

  BY JOHN COWPER POWYS
    WOOD AND STONE, A Romance reminiscent of the
    great Dostoievsky ................................. 1.75

    “One of the best novels of the year.”—­EVENING POST,
    NEW YORK.

“His mastery of language, his knowledge of human impulses, his interpretation of the forces of nature and of the power of inanimate objects over human beings, all pronounce him a writer of no mean rank.  He can express philosophy in terms of narrative without prostituting his art; he can suggest an answer without drawing a moral; with a clearer vision he could stand among the masters in literary achievement.”—­BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.

    “Psychologically speaking, it is one of the most remarkable
    pieces of fiction ever written.”—­CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

RODMOOR, A Romance of the old Thrilling Romantic
Order............1.50

“It is so far above the average English and American fiction that one can well exempt it from the necessity of following the rules.  He has intellect, he has taste, he has a sure instinct for what is aesthetically fine.  These qualities in themselves make his ‘Rodmoor’ a novel of exceptional distinction.”—­BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.

    “Without exception the most exquisitely written
    novel of the year.”—­ATLANTIC MONTHLY.