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JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER

VOLUME I.

NEW NOVELS.

MOTHS. By OUIDA. 3 vols. crown 8vo.

CONFIDENCE. By HENRY JAMES, jun.

2 vols. crown 8vo.

UNDER WHICH LORD? By E. LYNN LINTON.

3 vols. crown 8vo.

DONNA QUIXOTE. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY.

3 vols. crown 8vo.

QUEEN OF THE MEADOW. By CHARLES GIBBON. 3 vols. crown 8vo.

HIGH SPIRITS. By JAMES PAYN. 3 vols.

crown 8vo.

THE SEAMY SIDE. By WALTER BESANT and JAMES RICE. 3 vols. crown 8vo.

CHATTO & WINDUS, Piccadilly, W.

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LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

TO ALBERTO CACCIA.

LET me begin by informing you, that this new novel does not present the proposed sequel to my last work of fiction- The Fallen Leaves.'

The first part of that story has, through circumstances connected with the various forms of publications adopted thus far, addressed itself to a comparatively limited class of readers in England. When the book is finally reprinted in its cheapest form-then, and then only, it will appeal to the great audience of the English people. I am waiting for that time, to complete my design by writing the second part of "The Fallen Leaves.'

Why?

Your knowledge of English Literature-to which I am indebted for the first faithful and intelligent translation of my novels into the Italian language— has long since informed you, that there are certain important social topics which are held to be forbidden to the English novelist (no matter how seriously and how delicately he may treat them), by a narrow

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