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ZORAIDA.
A ROMANCE OF THE HAREM AND THE DESERT.
By WILLIAM LE QUEUX, F.R.G.S.,
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THE TOWER ROMANCE LIBRARY. VOL. I.
A TORQUAY MARRIAGE.
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IN QUEST OF A NAME.
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THE OUTLAWS OF THE AIR.
By GEORGE GRIFFITH,
AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION," "OLGA ROMANOFF," ETC.
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BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER.
A POLITICAL DREAM.
By GEOFFREY DANYERS.
A Vision of the Reunited Anglo-Saxondom asserting the Dominion of the Sea.
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THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND IN 1897.
By WILLIAM LE QUEUX, F.R.G.S.
With Numerous Illustrations by T. S. Crowther and Captain C. Field, and Nine Military Maps.
The Opinions of some Great Authorities.
The Duke of Cambridge, writing to the Author, says: "Such books cannot fail to have a good effect in inducing people to think more seriously of the necessity which lies upon the whole country to always be prepared, and to be more openhanded in giving money for the means of defence."
Field Marshal Lord Wolseley says: "A pleasure to peruse it."
The Marquis of Salisbury says: "It is very realistic and interesting."
Lord George Hamilton says: "It is very striking and original."
Sir C. Dilke says: "I think it is most valuable as tending to make people realise how little we are prepared for war."
Opinions of the London Press.
The Times says: "Everything that can spice a sensational volume."
The Morning Post says: "Few works can compare in stirring incidents or careful elaboration of detail.... A great deal of what he forecasts would be very likely to occur if once England were in the clutches of a strong enemy, and in the matter of description wherein the tumult and carnage is brought vividly before the reader.... A clever and exciting book."
The Standard says: "Full of excitement and realism."
The Globe says: "It is vigorous and rousing.... Will do a public service."
The Sun says: "Mr. Le Queux' narrative is well and spiritedly written."
The Evening News says: "Mr. Le Queux has succeeded in a very difficult task. He has brought home to us the dangers we expose ourselves if we neglect to maintain our Army and Navy in an adequate state of efficiency."
The Daily Graphic says: "Various essays have been made to forecast the next great European war, but Mr. William Le Queux' volume is certainly the most comprehensive and thrilling of anything yet attempted. Regarded simply as a work of fiction, it is exciting enough to satisfy the most enthusiastic lover of 'blood and thunder' literature. In its more serious aspect—and it is this aspect, of course, which the author desires for it—this book certainly evidences serious thought.... It is all very graphic and very thrilling, especially the bombardment of London by the Russians, and the author has not scrupled to avail himself of the latest, even of the future, resources of science."
Naval and Military Record says: "Mr. Le Queux has special qualifications for the task. He knows a great deal of our Army and Navy, and he is familiar with continental systems and sentiment. The narrative is lively and spirited, and the author writes with an air of conviction which is calculated to carry the reader on from beginning to end."
Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette says: "Mr. Le Queux is a vivid writer, and his work gives evidence of care and thoroughness. The chapter dealing with the march of the French on London is particularly fine. The author's production is the best of the kind we have come across for some time. It should emphasise our old contention as to the unreadiness for active service on a prolonged campaign of the sea and land forces of the Empire."
Army and Navy Gazette says: "The story is a capital one, full of interest and incident, well sustained and well told."
The Idler says: "Mr. Le Queux writes brilliantly, sensibly, and with a thorough mastery of his subject."
The Sketch says: "No novel of the day comes up to Mr. Le Queux' 'Great War in England in 1897' for excitement. From the preface to the last paragraph he has kept up his prophetic heroics in magnificent style, and if his patriotism does not scatter our indifference to our insular defences, why, then, nothing will. It is really a terrifying book. Mr. Le Queux has power to shake one's nerves as he foretells fights and slaughters in peaceful suburbs."
The World says: "It serves to bring home in a very realistic fashion the horrors of a war brought into our very midst."
To-Day says: "A mastery of military and naval details is displayed with conception and execution."
The Review of Reviews says: "The story is useful as a warning, and is worked out with much knowledge."
The Gentlewoman says: "Once having started, I couldn't lay it down till I had made an end thereto."
The Literary World says: "It is undoubtedly one of the books of the year. It is so ingenious and so exciting, it is at once extremely technical and extremely readable. The book is a great book, and one that no Englishman could read without a thrill."
The Publishers' Circular says: "Mr. Le Queux shows us what will happen if we do not better prepare ourselves."
Read what the Country Press say.
Manchester Evening News says: "Lovers of exciting literature will be satisfied to the full with the graphic story."
Liverpool Daily Mercury says: "Extremely interesting, and well worth reading."
Liverpool Daily Chronicle says:—"The story is full of stirring episode."
Birmingham Daily Post says: "The scenes are marked with real and affecting power."
Sheffield Daily Telegraph says: "We offer criticism in no carping spirit, but as part of our grateful acknowledgment for a brilliant, patriotic, and useful work."
Yorkshire Post says: "Well calculated to make the nervous tremble at every rumour of foreign complications."
The Scotsman says: "Strategical and other problems are elaborately worked out.... Amusing, entertaining, and exciting."
The North British Mail says: "It is a very powerful work."
Glasgow Herald says: "One of the best books we have read on a subject on which it is only too easy to be tiresome."
Glasgow Evening News says: "Whether as a romance or as a prophecy it is highly interesting."
The Western Morning News says: "Very exciting reading. Of real literary merit."
Bradford Daily Argus says: "Full of interesting and exciting reading."
Read what the Foreign and Colonial Press say.
Sydney Daily Telegraph says: "The writer's capability to speak regarding his subject is displayed on every page of the book. It is splendidly written."
The Belgian News says: "The book is a remarkable and a phenomenal success."
The Palladium (Newhaven, Conn.) says: "One of the most successful books of the season."
"Il Capitano Nemo," the well-known Italian naval writer, in L'Opinione of Rome, says that the problems put forward by Mr. Le Queux should secure the serious consideration of European Governments. "It is unquestionably a most important book," he says; "it is of interest to everyone, and the minuteness of its detail is astonishing. I can recommend it to the Italian public as a very startling yet highly instructive book."
The Italia Marinara says: "It is not a mere fantastic romance; it is a book to study seriously, and we recommend it to the Army and Navy of Italy, for it contains many valuable hints."
Il Secolo says: "A very remarkable and important work. There is genius in every line. The descriptions are most realistic, and it is of interest to everybody."
The China Telegraph says it is "of really intense and thrilling interest."
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THE CAPTAIN OF THE MARY ROSE.
A TALE OF TO-MORROW.
By W. LAIRD CLOWES,
U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE.
With 60 Illustrations by the Chevalier de Martino and Fred. T. Jane.
This work has been truly described by the public press as an intensely realistic and stirring romance of the near future. It describes the wonderful adventures of an armour-clad cruiser, built on the Tyne, which takes part in a great Naval War that suddenly breaks out between France and Great Britain. The dashing way in which the vessel is handled, her narrow escapes, the boldness of her successful attacks upon the enemy, and the heroic conduct of her commander and crew, form altogether a narrative of most absorbing interest, and full of exciting scenes and situations.
THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.
"Deserves something more than a mere passing notice."—The Times.
"Full of exciting situations.... Has manifold attractions for all sorts of readers."—Army and Navy Gazette.
"The most notable book of the season."—The Standard.
"A clever book. Mr. Clowes is pre-eminent for literary touch and practical knowledge of naval affairs."—Daily Chronicle.
"Mr. W. Laird Clowes' exciting story."—Daily Telegraph.
"We read 'The Captain of the Mary Rose' at a sitting."—The Pall Mall Gazette.
"Written with no little spirit and imagination.... A stirring romance of the future."—Manchester Guardian.
"Is of a realistic and exciting character.... Designed to show what the naval warfare of the future may be."—Glasgow Herald.
"One of the most interesting volumes of the year."—Liverpool Journal of Commerce.
"It is well told and magnificently illustrated."—United Service Magazine.
"Full of absorbing interest."—Engineers Gazette.
"Is intensely realistic, so much so that after commencing the story every one will be anxious to read to the end."—Dundee Advertiser.
"The book is splendidly illustrated."—Northern Whig.
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THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION.
A TALE OF THE COMING TERROR.
By GEORGE GRIFFITH.
In this Romance of Love, War, and Revolution, the action takes place ten years hence, and turns upon the solution of the problem of aerial navigation, which enables a vast Secret Society to decide the issue of the coming world-war, for which the great nations of the earth are now preparing. Battles such as have hitherto only been vaguely dreamed of are fought on land and sea and in the air. Aerial navies engage armies and fleets and fortresses, and fight with each other in an unsparing warfare, which has for its prize the empire of the world. Unlike all other essays in prophetic fiction, it deals with the events of to-morrow, and with characters familiar in the eyes of living men. It marks an entirely new departure in fiction, and opens up possibilities which may become stupendous and appalling realities before the present generation of men has passed away.
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.
"Since the days of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, we know of no writer who 'takes the cake' like Mr. George Griffith."—Daily Chronicle.
"A really exciting and sensational romance."—Literary World.
"As a work of imagination it takes high rank."—Belfast News Letter.
"Full of absorbing interest."—Barrow Herald.
"This powerful story."—Liverpool Mercury.
"An entirely new departure in fiction."—Reynolds' Newspaper.
"Of exceptional brilliancy and power."—Western Figaro.
"This remarkable story."—Weekly Times and Echo.
"There is a fascination about his book that few will be able to resist."—Birmingham Gazette.
"This exciting romance."—Licensing World.
"A work of strong imaginative power."—Dundee Courier.
"We must congratulate the author upon the vividness and reality with which he draws his unprecedented pictures."—Bristol Mercury.
"Is quite enthralling."—Glasgow Herald.
"A striking and fascinating novel."—Hampshire Telegraph.
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OLGA ROMANOFF;
Or, The Syren of the Skies.
By GEORGE GRIFFITH,
AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION," "THE OUTLAWS OF THE AIR."
Dedicated to Mr. HIRAM S. MAXIM.
A sequel to the author's striking and successful romance. The Angel of the Revolution, describing the efforts of a beautiful daughter of the House of Romanoff to restore the throne of her ancestors destroyed in the World-War of 1904, and presenting to the reader the spectacle of a world transformed into a wonderland of art and science, yet trembling on the brink of a catastrophe, in comparison with which even the tremendous climax of The Angel sinks almost into insignificance.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
"Mr. George Griffith has made himself a high reputation as an imaginative novelist by his brilliant romances, The Angel of the Revolution and The Syren of the Skies."—Sketch.
"This is quite as imaginative, as clever, and as enthralling a book as its predecessor."—Glasgow Herald.
"The book is a wild one, but its wildness and imaginative boldness make it uncommonly interesting."—Scotsman.
"The flights of fancy and imagination displayed by the author show a most marvellous power and conception."—Aberdeen Free Press.
"An entrancing book."—Birmingham Post.
"Full of originality in its rendition.... A marvel of imaginative strength and picturesque pen painting."—European Mail.
"On the whole Mr. Griffith has published a work which to our mind is the most suggestive of its kind that has been published for many years."—Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette.
"The work hardly lends itself to critical remark other than the expression of one's appreciation of an imaginative and glowing style likely to add to the pleasure of those who enjoy purely speculative fiction. These pictures have a weird splendour in keeping with the theme, but it is natural to desire a better future for the human race than the one here prophesied."—Morning Post.
"His theme is a more tremendous one, and the incidents of his story tenfold more terrible than even those awful battles in the former volume. There is the same swift succession of awful calamities, the same sustained interest from title page to cover, and the same thread of human love running through the narrative which lent its chief charm to the 'Angel of the Revolution.'"—Weekly Times and Echo.
"By lovers of sensational writing, in which the scientific discoveries of the future are forecast, and intrigue and warfare related in realistic manner under conditions which now exist but in prophetic imagination, it will be warmly welcomed.... The book must be read to be appreciated. Description is impossible."—Bradford Daily Argus.
