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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
"Anthony Hope", vii
I. A Mission to the Heathen, 1
II. The New Man at Littlehill, 7
III. Denborough Determines to Call, 16
IV. A Quiet Sunday Afternoon, 26
V. The Necessary Scapegoat, 36
VI. Littlehill Goes into Society, 47
VII. "To a Pretty Saint," 57
VIII. An Indiscreet Disciple, 67
IX. Dale's Own Opinion, 77
X. A Prejudiced Verdict, 87
XI. A Fable About Birds, 98
XII. A Dedication�and a Desecration, 106
XIII. The Responsibilities of Genius, 114
XIV. Mr. Delane Likes the Idea, 123
XV. How it Seemed to the Doctor, 132
XVI. "No More Kings," 141
XVII. Dale Tries His Hand at an Ode, 153
XVIII. Delilah Johnstone, 161
XIX. A Well-Paid Poem, 169
XX. An Evening's End, 177
XXI. "The Other Girl Did," 183
[Pg vi]XXII. The Fitness of Things, 191
XXIII. A Morbid Scruple, 200
XXIV. The Heroine of the Incident, 208
XXV. The Scene of the Outrage, 219
XXVI. Against Her Better Judgment, 229
XXVII. A Villain Unmasked, 237
XXVIII. A Vision, 245
In his speech at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy in 1894, among many other good things, Mr. Andrew Lang said:
"The thrifty plan of giving us sermons, politics, fiction, all in one stodgy sandwich, produces no permanent literature, produces but temporary 'tracts for the times.' Fortunately we have among us many novelists�young ones, luckily�who are true to the primitive and eternal, the Fijian canons of fiction. We have Oriental romance from the author of 'Plain Tales from the Hills.' We have the humor and tenderness�certainly not Fijian, I admit�which produces that masterpiece 'A Window in Thrums'; we have the adventurous fancy that gives us 'A Gentleman of France,' 'The Master of Ballantrae,' 'Micah Clarke,' 'The Raiders,' 'The Prisoner of Zenda.'"
The last of these books was by Anthony Hope Hawkins, whom Mr. Lang thus classed among potential immortals. This romance has made him within the last three months fairly famous. Walter Besant, too, has stamped it with his high approval, and the English and American press have been unusually unanimous in their praise.
