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Business Notices. i THI , | WEEKLY PRESS | C»PHCL___ A NNOUNC___BKT. j APPROACHING NEWSPAPER PUBLICA TION OF AX ORIGINAL STORY BY WALTER BESANT, THE ORIGINATOR OF TftE PEOPLE'S PALACE FOR EAST LONDON, AND THE MOST POPULAR BRITISH NOVELIST OF THE DAY. \"*|T— are gratified in the extreme at being .Tf *bJe to announce to onr Readers that oy Bpecial Arrangement with the Author; tne .New Story upon which WALTER BKSANT Is now-engaged, has been secured for Original Publication in tbe Fiction Columns of the WEEKLY PRESS. Our enterprise in thu« obtaining at very considerable outlay the rif-ht to publish a New work by so distinguished and popular a Novelist will bo fully appreciated by ani- subscribers, who, we trust, will give the announcement the widest possible puWlelty: and while .-tending the circulation have the gratUlc-tion, a3 the, Story progress ' from "week to week, of comparing notes witn their -riends upon, the cHaroctora and incidents brought before them by -ono of the brightest intellects in the world of light literature. ' The title of onr for thoomlng Story Is HERR PAULUS: HIS RISE, HIS GREATNESS, AND IIIS FALL, BY WALTER BESANT, Author Of "All Sorts and Condition-of Men,", Sec, Sec, AND THE OPENING INSTALMENT W___ APPEAR I_ THB WEEKLY PRESS ON NOVEMBER l-TH. Personally WALTER BESANT is genial, frank, kind-hearted, and extremely *o>«ta*. Lite -wide range of -objects nmkeshim an adSSableconversaf besides being a scholar, bo is a travelled Enghßhinan. Broad ifaoSde-red, he has a ____ne.. 6o was educated at Kintrt College, •Oondon, from whence he proceeded toUm-hrWg-and graduated Master of Arte withlugh n__t_cmatic_l honour.. Subsequently he occupied a Professor's chair in the Royal College. Ma-rn-us. His literary partnership with James Rice produced in ten years mot* than* dozen novels and two plays, thenamesot: which h-v-become "familiar to our oars as hou-c----hold words." Besant's_<_ttoownstory.Dwhaps, & "Al-Sorts and Conditions of which is popnlarly believed to have ramified to the erection of tho People's Pa-^.J 0 ' East London, recently opened by her Majesty tt^QueeVthe founaatfou-stono.having l>eea laid a. year before by the Prince of Wales. HERE PAULUS May be depended upon to afford a splendid Serary treat. Few Novelists ot modern times cancompare with Walter Besant in the abihty to write a really good, well conceived, boldly S_st r ructed?_na -dniiVably work*, out story. His Hterarv gifts * r e unique, and as the result of fancy, brilliant style, and careful attention to detail in all that concerns W-storios, we have a series of volumes which L_yo taiSt np for him a strong and endless popularity. -TTrr-ALTER T>ES ANT'S NEW STORY "-.- WILL APPEAR IN THE WEEKLY PRESS, COMMENCING NOVEMBER ISxh. THE PEOPLE'S PALACE. "Seldom, indeed, bas it fallen to the lotof a novelist to see the ideas sketched with a vivid imaffination in his romances becomei realisedJn .act Yet this is tho happy fate of-Mr Walter Besant. There can be no doubt that the People's Palace is largely due to the influence 'ofthat thoughtful and deUghtful book "All Sort- and Conditions of Men.'"'-— "Nonconformist and Independent." •■ 'Tho pen is mightier than the sword;* aye, for the sword destroys, ■'_..' , And spreads red ruin through tho land and " cmaheshopes and joys; But what the weU-direcced pen can do the " wor.-*-been taught, Since flrettho People _ Palace rose, based on an author's thought."—" London Figaro." THE WORLD WENT VERY WELL THEN. "A very powerful and fascinating romance.' —"The _lt«a_-T World." "All the world reads Mr Besant- books."— "Manchester Examiner.' » "One of the pleasantest of recent novels."— « Court and Society, Review." '* Has much of tbe movement and vigor which one has learned to expect trom the author." "Acadoniy*" " His boaka-triko us as models of what novels onarht to bo. Tho story is powerful, pathetic, ___ original."— *'Saturday Review/ " A racy and exciting tele, as well as another proof of it- writer's rare versatility. The work deserves to be lead."—" Morning Post" "Mr Besant's romances have five readers today to any other novelist's one. Great tenderness and _weet_.c-s i .in his heroines Is Mr B___--_ _j»_cial forte."—" Now York Times." .\\f:.A. L.'.T KB BkSAN T'S _Pl___tt>lD NEW STORY. B_,-TlT__l> HERR PAULUS: ' HIS -USE, HIS GREATNESS. AND HIS '"FALL, j COMMENCES ORIGINAL j i" PUBLICATION iL '_ ' IS TBS WbEKk* PRESS ." /ON NOVEMP-R _9r__ ".,. .;.. " -- .*____ .-■-- ™ -Q - ;-:<■' ■ ■:■■. Of THE PUBLIC _3 INVITED TO SDBSCRIBE BJEST PAPER IN NEW ____Al___Sl) Butecrlptlons may begin at any time.