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      THE END

      Advertisements

      BY GEORGE DU MAURIER

      TRILBY. A Novel. Illustrated by the Author. Post

      8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 75.

      It is a charming story told with exquisite grace

      and tenderness. -- N. Y. Tribune.

      "Trilby" is the best fiction of the older school

      that the magazines have permitted the public to enjoy

      for a long while. -- N. Y. Evening Post.

      Proves Du Maurier to have as great power as George

      Meredith in describing the anomalies and romances of

      modern English life; while his style is far more clear

      and simple, and his gift of illustration adds what few

      authors can afford. Thackerey had this artistic skill

      in some degree, but not to compare with Du

      Maurier. -- Springfield Republican.

      "Trilby" is so

      thoroughly human, so free from morbidness and the

      disposition to touch the unclean thing that it atones

      for a multitude of sins in contemporaneous fiction....

      In giving this wholesome, fascinating history to the

      world the artist-author has done a favor to novel

      readers which they cannot well repay nor fitly

      express. -- Indianapolis Journal.

      PETER IBBETSON.

      With an Introduction by his

      Cousin, Lady * * * * * ( "Madge Plunket"). Edited and

      illustrated by GEORGE DU MAURIER. Post 8vo,

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      Mr. Du Maurier deserves the gratitude of all who

      come across his book, both for the pleasant and tender

      fancies in which it abounds and for its fourscore

      dainty sketches. -- Atheneum, London.

      There are no suggestions of mediocrity. The pathos

      is true, the irony delicate, the satire severe when

      its subject is unworthy, the comedy sparkling, and the

      tragedy, as we have said, inevitable. One or two more

      such books, and the fame of the artist would be dim

      beside that of the novelist. -- N. Y. Evening Post.

      The personal chalacterization is particularly

      strong, the pictures of Paris are wonderfully graphic,

      and the tale will induce many of its readers to attempt

      Du Maurier's receipt for "dreaming true." --

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      Novelty of subject and of

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      allure. -- Chicago Tribune.

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