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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7202, 10 February 1892, Page 1

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Ten Famous jVovelists. wai/tee be3akt. hall came. GEO. A. SALA. GEO. B. SIMS. W. OLAEK BUSSELI-. | FEED. BOYLE. JOHN eAQNDBBB. FLOBENCE MABRYAT. GOBDON STABIiSS. MBS ALEXANDEB. At a rery LABGE HSPHNBE tho Propriqtof s of ■ the "OANTEBBUBT TIMES" have I secured for their FICTION COLUMNS A BBILLIANT COMBINATION OF LITEBABT TALENT. NEW AND ORIGINAL NOVELETTES BT TBN OF THE BEST KNOWN LIVING WBITEB* ■Will appear ia duo oourao in tho "CANTERBURY TIMES,' And New Subscribers should at once send in their Orders, and ao obtain the Whole of the Series. The Novelists whose names appear above are so well known to the great mass of newspaper retdera that it is unnecessary to say anything in their praise. The authors and their books are as familiar as " household wordx," and the proprietors feel sure that they have merely to announce that the latest- sterles of these gifted novelists will ba published in their columns to ensure increased interest in the spaoe they devote to original flotion. THE OPENING STORY Of the Series Is by Mr WALTEB BESANT. The olfeer stories are intended to appear, ia the following orderi— BT BBIDGET/8 EYE, . A Love Story. BT HALL CAINF. THE POTTEB or PFEFFfiBKUCHENSTEIN, The History of a Strange Discovery. BT GEO. AUGUSTUS SALA. A NOBLE HAUL, A Nautical Adven'tnre. BY W. CLABK BUSSELL. A TBAGIC HONEYMOON, A Sensational Huioide. BT GEO. B. SIMS. WOOING AN AMAZON, A Colonial Btory. BY FBED BOYLE. THE AMBITIOUS WIDOW, BY JOHN BAUNDEKB. THE LUCKIEST GIBL Itf YOBKSHIBE, Br FLOBENOE MABBfAT. THE OLD HOTJ3E ATDONTHEIM, A Weird Mystery. BY GOBDON STABLE 3. THE CBAOK OF DOOM, BT MBS ALEXANDEB. SUMMARY. Mr Hall Came thinks his contribution the prettiest Btory be bus evor written. Mr Besant's as a work of wondetful power, opening with an extraoidinary event iv an English Cathedral. Mr tiala'sis a clever burlesque, lull of humour. Mr Hms deals with a gruesome Incident in a European Hotel. The Btories by Mrs Alexander and Mr John Slanders are dramatic. '1 he heroine ia Mr Boyle's Novelette is a Colonial girl— a splendid type of womanhood. Miaa Marryaf a is a Love Story. Gordon Stables contributes a Psychological Mystery, and Mz Clark Bnsaell a Be* Story. this is probably the moat Important Engagement which has ever been made between a combination of Boglieh Novelists and a Colonial Newspaper, but th* phenomenal success of the- new issue Of the "Castkbduht Times" has induced the proprietors to inour an Exceptional Expenditure in order to place the readers of the paper in possession of the very best modern notion. THE SPECIAL SERIES OF NOVELETTES BT TEN NOVELISTS Will Commence Publication in the " CANTERBURY TIMES " OP THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1892.