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Publications. WEEKLY PRESS. Ur*PARALLB_ED announcement. PI3CINATINQ T}l CXIOI BY A MASTER IN MYSTERY AND SENSATIONALISM. NEW AND ORIGINAL SERIAI, STORY FROM THE PEN OF H. KIDER HAGGARD, THE BRILLIANT AND DISTINGUISHED Author of "Kins Solomon's —Linos,'* "_J_a Quatermaia," "Sho," "Jess," tec, tea. THE Proprietors of the W___i.t PRBB are pleased to announce that they have, at a very considerable outlay, made arrangements with H. Rider Haqoabb —the Author of the Most Popular ud Dramatic Stories of our day—by whiea their Readers will enjoy precedent perusal of a New aud Unpublished Manuacrij* Story from his pen. They make known this enterprise og their part with the more gratification because this is tbe first occasion on which the Author of " King Solomon's taints" has written a Story expressly for original publication in Newspapers, and In consequence also of the satisfaction which has attended their publication in tbe past at new works by famous novelists, and th* introduction into their columns, frajn time to time, of the most Attractive Ne~* paper Features. The Title of Rider-. Haggabd's Naif Story is COLONEL QUAKITC&, V.C., And the Opening Chapters Appeared in THE WEEKLY PRESS ON FRIDAY, SEPT. 7. In this dramatic work, the author <t " 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 treasure story of the prwentl day. The hero is a soldier iv 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 iv the desert for a series of sensational Incidents among. . pleasant English landscapes. The plot la well contrived; there is strong indlvidualisation in the characters; thescenes are depicted with clearness and "a warm flow of local color, while the main indents are worked out with power. Not even in "King Solomon's Mines," whsa entrance is effected into the mysterious chamber, is the thrill greater than whoa Colonel Quaritch unearths tbe treasure hidden away from Cromwell's soldiers, the recovery of which saves an andeaS house from ruin. In the domain of literature there U scarcely an equal to the meteoric and to* wildering success of Rider Haggard. 11l was born in 1856 at Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, and was destined by his pawnta —descendents of 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 accompanies Sir Theophilus Shepstohe In the Traejvaal, and at the age of twenty-one »M appointed Master of the High Court tbaft. Two years later he returned home, atot married in 1880 the only daughter df t&t late Major Margiton, of Ditchlognaa House, Norfolk, where he resides when not in London. With bis Wife he aubtft* quently returned to the Transvaal, and quicklytf ound 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 sow a practicing barrister. His first literary ventures did not meet with much success, and he passed through the trials nsau with unknown authors in his early efforts to secure publishers for " Cetewayo and his White Neighbors,""Dawn,"and "Tha Witch's Head. " King Solomon's Mine*" written as a boys' book, was an immediut success, and ran out of print in a few dam Since then his name and books have Become " familiar to our ears aa household words." Thirty thousand copies of " Shi* were sold in a month, and each fresh work from his pen seem.t to create greater seasation. Personally. Rider HaqoabD _» much to recommend him, and is as modest and amiable as he is gifted. He objects to being lionised, and carries his honors wita an ease and simplicity which win hits friends wherever he goes. Without being handsome, he is a fresh, comely-lookiag Englishman, with fair hair and frank biw eyes. He seldom appears in London, preferring to pass his days in the quirt seclusion of his native Norfolk.

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