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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. ME ANTHONY HOPE’S NEW NOVEL “PHEOSO” COMMENCES IN THE ]N ew Zealand Mail FOE MAY 7th. His only Long Story written since “ The Prisoner of Zenda.” Since writing “ The Prisoner of Zcnda,” Air Hope has actually produced no long novel except “ PHKO3O.” JT IS A TALE OF BRAVE DEEDS AND PERILOUS VENTURES. “ PIIROSO ” is more fresh and engaging in natural surprises of dramatic incident, more thrilling in unusual situations and brave deeds and canning villainies than even “ The Prisoner of Zenda.” It is a story of tho present day, and the hero is a young English nobleman named Wheatley. He buys an outlying island in the Grecian Archipelago, called Neopalia, a hundred miles from Rhodes, which is the nearest land, out of tho line of the steamers ; en island that has only a few hundred inhabitants, and is practically a great rock rising a thousand feet from the sea. At the very beginning tho reader’s interest is aroused by tho imagined dangers that, lie in wait for tho hern. Nothing could bo inoro absorbing than the incidents that follow : the landing of Wheatley and his friends on the island, their imprisonment at the inn, their escape to tho house at the top of the rock, the siege of the house, tho sally and the capture of the Princess Phroso, the finding of the secret door, the passage through the rocky headland 10 the Heashoro, the fight in the cave ; and so one might goon enumerating incident after incident that follow in one continuous dramatic unity of plot in chapter after chapter, until tl.e whole situation is cleared up and a happy conclusion reached. A STORY THAT NEVER EOSES INTEREST. Air Hop ’s «1,-.ry illustrates the saying of Steven on : “ I'anion is to i lie grown man what play is to the . 1 1 i 1< 1 ; it, is there that lie change s the atmosphere and tenor of his life; and whin the game so chimes with his fancy that lie can join in it with all his heart, when it pleases him with every turn, when he loves, to recall it, a - d dwell upon it.s recollection with entire delight,, fiction is called romance.” The serial rights for Wellington of Air Hope’s story have been secured, ar, great expense, by the proprietors of the New Zealand Mail, who recognise tlm fact lhat tho subscribers to the paper must have tlw hi',’best class fiction that can be pro aired. For tho American rights of “ Pinco.so” I no less than ATitlh were paid, and the story is I strictly copyrighted throughout the United Kingdom and all British Colonies. A perusal of advance proofs of the first few chapters justifies tho Editor of the New Zealand Alail in warmly recommending the story to the attention of his readers. I “ PIIROSO,” an entirely now story by Mr Anthony Horn, author of ‘‘Tile I Prisoner of Zenda,” “A AT,an of Alark,” “ The Chronicles of Count Antonio,” and une of the most rising and popular of English Novelists, commences in tho NEW ZEALAND MAIL OF THURSDAY, MAY 7th. Mention the fact to your friends.