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11 ii >T~' ■ i i ■■ ■ ■ — WEEKLY PRESS OP-CIA- iKSOUNCM - *". Now commenced, an Original ■'""' Story by WALTER BE S A NT, JHE ORIGINATOR OF THE PEOPLE'S PALACE FOR EAST LONDON, AND THE MOST POPULAR BRITISH NOVELIST OF THE DAY. -*f*fr_ are gra—led in the extreme at being TV al)le to announce to our Readers that by Bpedal Alt_igetncnt with the Author, the gewS-r-r vmS which WALTER BKSANT is now engaged, has been —cured for Origmtu Publication in the Fiction Columns of the WEEKLY PRESS. Oar enterprise In thus obtaining at very consU___• outlay the right to publish a New Work by so distinguished aud popular a Noveliat will be —Uy appreciated by onr sub■cr—era, who. we trust, will give the announcement tbe -*na_t ppssibiepuMicitj*; and while extesiidln g the WEEKLY PR—Hi circulation have rhe gratiflcition, as the Story progresses from week to week, of comparing notes with their friends upon the character* and utoidemti brought before tbom by one of the brightest tat—facts in the world of light lit—at—re. The title ot the Story Ir HERR PAULUS: BIS RISE, His OR_4.TN_SS, AXD H_ FALL, ar •WALTER BBS-NT jM cf "All Sorts aad Conditio— ot Hen

ate, See, THE OPENING INSTALMENT j_-p*_Jt—D IS T—■ WEEB_LY PRESS ON NOV-HBSR ltni. Persona-y WALTER BESANT Is genial, tn__. "——-heart*—, and extremely nopular. His wide range df subjects makes him an ad* -——bio couvcrsat.oi——t, and besides being a a—mi—, he is a eraveiled Englishman. Broad shouldered, he has a di»_aguishod carriage and He was educated at King's College, on, from whence he proceeded to Cambridge and graduated Master of Arts with high _atnematla- honours. Subsequently be oot-u----pied a Professor's chair in _c Royal College, Mauritius. His literary partnership with James Rice produced in ten roars more than a dozen novels and two plays, tho names of whieih have become "familiar to our ears as householdworda." Besant's—st known story .perbaps, Is "All Sorts and Conditions of Men, whioh is popularly believed to have resulted to the erection of tho People's Palace for East London, recently opened by her Majesty the Queen, the foundatio u-stone hav-ng oecn laid a year before by tbe Prince of Wales. HERR PAULUS May be depended upon to afford a splendid lit—_y treat, "few Novelists of modern ti—qs can compare with Walter ucaaut in tho ability to write a realty gcod, woll t-'solvod, boUUy constructed, and admirat-.- m „—• out story. Hia literary gifta a»e un « d — the —suit of hia vigorous fancy, ->>-"" jib style, and core—l attention to deo-ii •.- ail that txmoor _ his st—ties, we have a serk-4 of volumes which have built up for bun a strong and radios* popularity. •WTCT ALTER T> ES A N T'S NEW STORY APPEARED IN THS WEEKLY PRESS, COMMENCING NOVEMBER 18t_ THE PEOPLE'S PALACE. -Seldom, indeed, has it fallen to the lot of a novelist to see the ideas sketched with a vivid in his romances become rnalljyid to toot. Yet this is the happy fat© of Mr Walter I—sant. The— can be no doubt that the People's Palace is largely due to the influence of that thoughtful and delightful book "All Sorts and Conditions of Men. " — "Nonconformtst and Inelonendent. "'Tho peu is mightier than the sword;' aye, for tne sword aestroys. And spreads red ruin —rough the land nnd -•rushes hopes and joys; But what, the wall-directed pen can do the world's boon taught. Knee —ret the People's Palace rase, hosed on on author's thought. —" London —garo." IHE WORLD WENT VERY WELL THEN. " A very powerful and —winsting i_____• . -' The literary World." *-™anon. "A_ tbe world reads Mr Bason?* books."— _" One of. the pi—saatest of recent novels."-» ••Court and Society ttertew/ «#»w_.-» "Has much of the movement and vi_« which one baa learned to expeot fr—_ __ author." •"Academy. -His books strike us as models ol what nor«_ ought to be. The story is powerful, paUMttc a_2oriitf—_"—"Saturaay ßeview." - f -- lT ~*T™- •* A racy and exciting trie, as Walt aa another proof of its writer's rarei venomitjf. The work deserves to be lead. —**Morningi—V ; "Mr Besant's romances havo Aye readers today to any other noreUst's one. Great tenderness and sweetness to his he—toes «■ _g» Beaanrs special torte."-**New YerkTJLmatf W ALTER __► E 3 A N T 8 SPLENDID NEW STORY. SOT— 'LSD HERR PAULUS: BIS RISE. HIS GREATNESS AND BIS FALL, COMMENCED ORIGINAL PUBLICATION Di"—! WtiBKLl- PRESS ON NOVEMBER Ux_ IHSPU—UC ISINV— —D-—>SUBaC_OU so m BEST PAPEB IN NEW ZEALAND V eubse-ptfansn-rbagteasMy ttmm, } EEXPE-CE FKB COPT i. a* ',"■'■-' ' #By WM-mm .