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.B466re

Besant, Sir Walter.

No other way

Story of 18th century London.

Its plot turns upon a curious point of

English law by which a woman in debt could, by marriage, transfer
all her liabilities to her husband.

Besant, Sir Walter, & Rice, James.

Ready-money Mortiboy; a matter-of-fact story.

"Old Mortiboy is a miser and the offspring of misers, who builds up a
huge fortune by grinding the poor and ruining the well-to-do... Phases
of life, chiefly shady life, in London and elsewhere are exploited by
the novelists who expose vice with a merciless hand." Baker's Descrip-
tive guide to the best fiction.

Best foot forward, and other stories. Finn....

Betham-Edwards, Matilda. See Edwards, Matilda Betham-.

.jF511b

Story of an East-side family....

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Some of the chapters appeared in the "Outlook," v.69-70, Dec. 14, 1901-
Feb. 15, 1902.

Sociological study of New York tenement life in fiction form.

Betty Zane. Grey....

Between the acts. Nevinson....

G8872b .N259b

Beyle, Marie Henri, (pseud. De Stendhal).

Chartreuse of Parma; tr. fr. the French by Lady Mary Loyd, with a critical introduction by Maurice Hewlett. (Century of French romance.)....

.rB469c

An admirable picture of the elaborate intrigue of a small Italian court
in the early 19th century. Contains also a fine description of the
battle of Waterloo.

"We consider that this is the principal work of Stendhal, as a novelist,
and that it is this that gives the measure of his ability as observer,
as critic, as philosopher, and as writer." Translated from Larousse's
Grand dictionnaire universel.

Beyond chance of change. Shafer....

Bilberry wood. Dick......

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jD549b

Billow and the rock. Martineau..

M431b

Bilse, Oswald Fritz, (pseud. Fritz von der Kyrburg).

A little garrison; a realistic novel of German army life

of to-day; tr. by Wolf von Schierbrand.....

.B4831

Severe arraignment of the German army. The book cost its author a
term of imprisonment and dismissal from the service.

Bindloss, Harold.

Mistress of Bonaventure....

B485m

Canadian story of experience on the plains before the time of the rail-
road. Gives a picture of ranch life in the Northwest and is full of
exciting incident.

Black, Rudolph Edgar, pseud. See Lessing, Bruno.