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Btgdnew Sfefcieeß. THI WEEKLY PRESS CFSOIAL a NNOUNCKMOanV Now rmnme*"™*, an Origin*! Sfawyby WALTER BESANT, m SHE ORIGINATOR OF THE PEOPLE'S PALACE FOR EAST LONDON, AND THE MOST POPULAR BRITISH KOTEUBT OF THE DAY. _A_h are gratified in tbe extreme at being yy able to announce to oar Readers tiuwoy 8-_e_al Arrangement with the Authors ti» lfewi_OTup^which WALTER BESAiiT is now engaged, has bee» secured for OrigmsJ publication in the Fiction Columns of tho WEEKLY PRESS. / Our enterprise in thus obtaining at **«ry ooa--B_derable outlay the right to publish a New Work by so distinguished aud popular a Novelist will be fully appreciated by our subKribers, who, we trust, w_l give tbe announcement the widest possiblepufalicity ; and while the WEEKLY PRESS circulation have the gratification, as the Story progresses j from week to week, of comparing notes with lieir friends upon the characters and incidents brought before them by one of the brightest intellects in the world of light literature. The title of the Story is HERR PAULUS: SIS RISE. HIS GREATNESS. AND HIS FAlil* BT Walter besant 4b ot "An Sorts AadfTrf _Ht_on_ of Men tee.. See* THE OPENING INSTALUENT ' - __■_______> SS THB WjE_EE__LY PRESS V .. .mXCYXUBKRItes. " ._■* -.-, _ Pemaafiy WALTER BESANT to genial. *- -trank- __fiai-__«*rt*i, and _*xtremely nopular. His wide range of gnbiwtts makes him an ad- : ■ , mirable conversaUOßAfiEt, And besides being a •-?■- scholar, he is a travelled T-ngliffhrnan. Broad has a L,*__ianner.v-He was educated at King^sCollege, U,_\,o&dax'trom whence he proceeded to Cam- »' jai-lgpr-u-d graduated Mastor of Arts wjtf.h high s TnatEeguUcal honours. * Satxreqaeatly heoesnk Aied chair in iapßoyai College, I' #»a-_t_tt_. His hyerary partnership.wlih ' Jaa_e& XUse vndv&mm. ien yeto jpewstana r"> 4_w_antrt'j-_i>«_ti ty^^B^iMi'miaaineae^mhm^ S«tj, which is popularly beaeveH to-*Tiavo resulted in the ereotion of tile People's Palace for East London, recently opened by her Majesty the Queen, the foaadfttaou-tone having Men laid a year before by thePrince of Wales. HERR PAULUS May be depended upon to Afford a splendid literary treat. Few Novelist* of modem times " can compare with Walter Besant in the ability to write a reaLy good, weU conceived, boldly constructed, and admirably worked ont story. Hia literary gifts are unique, and as tho result of hia vigorous fancy, brilliant style, and careful attention to detail in all that concerns his stories, we have a series of volumes which have built up for him a strong aad end_e___ popularity. -nr ALTER DESANT'3 NEW STORY APPEARED IN THE WEEE_LY PRESS, COMMENCING NOVEMBER 18th, THE PEOPLE'S PALACE. "Seldom, indeed, has it fallen t» the lot ot a •evelist to see the ideas sketched with a vivid _-B_£-i__tion in his romances become realised in fact. Vet this is the happy lata ot Mr Walter Besant. There can be no doubt that the - People's Palace ia largely due to the influence of that thoughtful and delightful book " All Sorts and Conditions of Men.*" — "Nonoontormist and Indeoendent.'' "'The pen is mightier than the sword;' aye. for Ufa sword destroys, Ana spreads red ruin through the land aad ■ hopes and joys; But what the well-directed pen can do the world's been taujt bt. Knee first the People's Palace rose, based on an author's thought."—"London _Hga.ro." THE WORLD WENT VERY WELL THEN. S&ilg^^- ÜBCix »* a * ""^ •*^^t^°_____J^.- Mr **"** *-*■.-•- "Oneof the pleasantest ot recentiiot___" *Court and Society Review." * J *^ fc ---- o ™-*s. — "Has much of the movement and vi__r Which one has learned to expect from l_». "author." "Academy." " His books strike us as models of what novalu ought to be. The story is powerful, nathotSt • and original."— ** Saturday Review. ■* •^~-"*- ,K- " A racy and exciting tele, as well as another Proof of its writers rare versatility. T____w._h_ oeserves to be read."— ** Morning pfcet." **__&> Besanfs romances have five readers t_. cay to any other novelist's one. GreAttenderi jaes and sweetness in his heroines is _Z , *^_aiU'ssped_Ulnrte."-* 4 NewYoAKiTO.- ' \ T ALTER J3 E S A N T S SPLENDID NEW STORY. ] XSTETLED HERR PAULUS: BIS RISE. HIS GREATNESS, AND HIS FALL. COMMENCED OBIGINAJi PUBLICATION XKTB* Weekly press ON NOVEMBER ISrau . ' *8S PUBLIC IS INVITED TO SUBSCRIBE TOTSJB papee IN SEW ZJEALAND may begin at any time. . SXPJENCE EEB COP*, 08, mU fkk AXNUIL