When I say that this scene is suggestive of Balzac, I mean a high compliment.'-- _Academy._ 'Miss Betham-Edwards is a popular favourite of longstanding.

She loves to take her readers into some quiet corner of France, and her gift of picturesque description is such that her tales seldom fail to yield interest and recreation.'-- _Times._ A.& C.BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.
* * * * * AN ISLE IN THE WATER.
BY KATHARINE TYNAN (MRS.

HINKSON).
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'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance, comes a woman artist.

"An Isle in the Water" is a collection of fifteen well-conceived and excellently-finished Irish stories, for which it would be hard to find anything to say but praise.