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Publications. ~ t ; , i|. ! i t, ;•(., . ; . .. . j '.. •" * WEEKLY PRESS. rjHPAtt * t.T.-r.„n ANNOUNCEMENT. p-SCINATING -p OTIOS BT A MASTER IN MYSTERY AND SENSATIONALISM. NEW AND ORIGINAL SERIAL STORY FROM THE PEN OF H. RIDER HAGGARD, THB J-ULUANT AND DIBTINOUISH-D Author of "King Solomon's' Mines, ** "Allan , Quaterma—i,'' "She," "Jess," Sec, Sec. THE Proprietors of the Weekly Press are pleased to announce that they have, at a very considerable outlay, made arrangements with H. Rider Haggard —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of the Most Popular and Dramatic Stories of our day—by which their Readers will enjoy precedent perusal of a New and Unpublished Manuscript Story from his pea. They make known this enterprise on their part with the more gratification be cause this is tbe first occasion on which the Author of "King Solomon's tomes", has written a Story 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 tp time, ef the most Attractive Newspaper Features. The Title pf Rider Haggard's New Story is COLONEL QUABITCH, v.c, 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 lands remote from civilisation and subjecting them to influences of the most remarkable and unprecedented nature, he has here written an English tieasure story of the present 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 aeries ,of sensational incidents among pleasant Buglish landscapes. The plot is well contrived; there Is strong individualisation in the characters; thescenes are depicted with clearness and a warm §low of' local color, while the main indents are worked out with power. Not even in "King Solomon's Mines," when entrance Is effected into the mysterious chamber, is the thrill greater than when Colonel Quaritch unearths the treasure hidden away from Cromwell's soldiers, tbe 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 Rid—r Hagsabo. He was born in 1856 at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, and was destined by bis parents —descendentsof good old Norfolk families —for foreign, service. Fortune led him to accept a post on the staff 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 of the High Court there. Two years later he returned home, and married In 1880 the only daughter of the late Major Margicou, of Bitchingham House, Norfolk, where he resides when not in' London. With his wife he subsequently returned to the Transvaal, and quickly found his party driven into laager By the triumphant 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 net meet with much success, and he passed through the trials usual with unknown authors in his early efforts to secure publishers for " Cetewayo and his White Neighbors," " Dawn," and " The Witch's Head. " King Solomon's Mines," written as a boys' book, was an immediate success, and ran out of print in a few days. Since then his name and books have become " familiar to our ear 3 as household words." Thirty thousand copies of -'* She " were sold in a month, and each fresh work from Bis pen seems to create greater sensation. Personally, Rider 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 1 friends wherever he goes. Without being I haudsome, he is a fresh, comely-looking Englishman, with fair hair and frank blue eyes.. He seldom appears in Lon ion, pre- I ferriug to pass his days in the quiet seclusion of nis native Norfolk. COLONEL "QUARITCH v.c, Is the Latest Serial Story by H. RIDER HAGGARD, And it will Commence Weekly PnblicaCition In THE. WEEKLY PSESS, ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 7 Intending Subscribers are requested HAND IN THEIR ORDERS EARLY. ■• ■■ . • i 1.--... 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