BY THE SAME AUTHOR
CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS
DAWN
THE WITCH’S HEAD
KING SOLOMON’S MINES
SHE
JESS
ALLAN QUATERMAIN
MAIWA’S REVENGE
MR. MEESON’S WILL
COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C.
CLEOPATRA
ALLAN’S WIFE
BEATRICE
ERIC BRIGHTEYES
NADA THE LILY
MONTEZUMA’S DAUGHTER
THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST
JOAN HASTE
THE WORLD’S DESIRE (IN COLLABORATION WITH ANDREW LANG)
AUTHOR OF ‘KING SOLOMON’S MINES,’ ‘SHE,’ ‘ALLAN QUATERMAIN,’ ETC.
‘Il y a une page effrayante dans le livre des destinéeshumaines; on y lit en tête ces mots “les désirsaccomplis.”’—GEORGES SAND
WITH 20 ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. S. WILSON
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1895
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