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NISBET & CO., LTD.NEW FICTION."ANOTHER SILAS MARNERWITH A NEW EPPIE." Times.THE FOLK of FURRY FARM.BybyK. F. PURDON. With an Introduction"Gee. A. BIRMINGHAM." SECOND IMPRESSION.Crown 8vo. 6/-This is a book which, as Canon Hannay pointsout in his introduction, breaks new ground. Thepeasant figures in its pages are the fruits ofclose study by a writer to whose sympathy andobservation they make a direct appeal, and areinstinct with life. The smile and the tear arenever far from one another in this story of midlandIreland," Another name has to be added to the longroll of Irish women, beginning with Maria Edgeworth,who have won distinction as writers offiction." Spectator."A wealth of humour and insight and affection,and over it all flits, like sunbeams over a field, theessential Irish spirituality." A.E., in the Irish Homestead." Miss Purdon's book is delightful. . . Whatan exquisite granary of phrases it is phrases quickenedby an alert and fecund imagination." ! Atheufpum." She has caught the imagination of Irelandwith all its pathos and bathos, as in a net.' :Saturday Review." It is all so simple, so beautiful, so full oflove and holy gladness, that one reads it with thevery atmosphere of the long, level plain aroundone's heart." Church Times.22, BERNERS ST., LONDON, W.