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Publications. WEEKLY PRESS. UNPARALLELED ANNOUNCEMENT. FASCINATING JP CTION BY A MASTER IN MYSTERY AND SENSATIONALISM. NEW AND ORIGINAL SERIAL STORY FROM THE PEX OK H. KIDEK HAGGARD, THE BRILLIANT AND DISTINGUISHED Author of "King Solomon's Mines," "Allan Quatermaia," "She," "Jess," &c, &c Proprietors of the Weekly Press I are pleased to announce that they have, at a very considerable outlay, made arrangements with H. Ridek Haguxhd —the Author of the Most Popular and Dramatic Stories of our day—by which their Readers will enjoy precedent perusal of a New and Unpublished Manuscript Story from his pen. They make known this enterprise on their part with the more gratification be cause this is the first occasion on which the Author of " King Solomon's aiinea " has written a Stoi-y expressly for original publication in Newspapers, and in consequence also of the satisfaction which has attended their publication in the past of new works by famous novelists, and the introduction into their columns, from time to time, of the most Attractive Newspaper Features. The Title of Rider Haggard's New Story is COLONEL QUAEITCH, V.G., And the Opening Chapters will Appear in THE WEEKLY PRESS ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 7. In this dramatic work, the author of " She " makes a new departure. Instead of placing his characters in lauds remote from civilisation and subjecting them to influences of the most remarkable and unprecedented nature, he has here written an English treasure story of the present t day. The hero is a soldier in the British Army, a wearer of the Victoria Cross, who returns home from the recent operations in the Soudan, to exchange the perils and privations of warfare in the desert for a series of sensational incidents among pleasant Xiiglish landscapes. The plot is well contrived; there is strong individualisation in the characters; the scenes are depicted with clearness and a warm glow of local color, while the main incidents are worked out with power. Not even in "King Solomon's Mines," when eutrauce is effected into the mysterious chamber, is the thrill greater than when Colonel Quaritch unearths the treasure hidden away from Cromwell's soldiers, the recovery of which saves an ancient house from ruin. In the domain of literature there is scarcely an equal to the meteoric and bewildering success of Rider Haggard. He was born in 1856 at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, and was destined by his parents —descendants of good old Norfolk families —for foreign service. Fortune led him to accept a post on the staft' of Sir Henry Bulwer in South Africa; he accompanied Sir Theophilus Shepstone in the Transvaal, and at the age of twenty-one was appointed Master or the High Court there. Two years later he returned home, and married in lfc&O the only daughter ot th<e : late Major Margiton, of Ditchinghum House, Norfolk, where he resides wien not in London. With his wife he subsequently returned to the Transvaal, and 1 quickly found his party driven into laager by the triumphaut Boers. Disgusted with the change of affairs in that country, Rider Haggard once more settled in. London, was called to the Bar, and is now a practicing barrister. His first literary ventures did not meet with much, succeed, and he passed through the trials usvlai with unknown authors in his early efforts to secure publishers for " Cetewayo and his White Neighbors," " " The Witch's Head.' " King SolomonV, Mine 3 " written as a boys' book, an immediate success, and rau out ot print i* a a few days I Since then his name. a.nd br, o ks have be" i come" familiar W our ear\> as household [ words, 'liurfcy thousaD'a copies of " She" were sold ia a month, each fresh work from his pen seems to create greater sensation. Personally, Ridkr Haggard has much to recommend him, and is as modest and amiable as he is gifted. He objects to being lionised, and carries his honors with an ease aad simplicity which win him friends wherever he goes. Without being handsome he is a fresh, comely-lookiDg Baglis&man, with fair hair and frank blue eyes, He seldom appears in Lonuon, preferring to pa 33 his days in the quiet seclusion of his native Norfolk. COLONEL "QU ARITCH V.O. Iβ the Latest Serial Story by H. EIDER HAGGARD, And it will Commence Weekly Publicacation in THE WEEKLY PRESS, ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 7. Intending Subscribers are requested HAND IN THEIR ORDERS EARLY. 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