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By WILLIAM DE MORGAN
JOSEPH VANCE
An intensely human and humorous novelof life near London in the '50s. $1.75.
"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield'and 'Peter Ibbetson' he can find the two booksin this one."—The Independent.
"The first great English novel that has appearedin the 20th Century."—New York TimesReview.
ALICE-FOR-SHORT
The story of a London waif, a friendlyartist, his friends and family. $1.75.
"If any writer of the present era is read halfa century hence, a quarter century, or even adecade, that writer is William De Morgan."—BostonTranscript.
"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks inthese rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Willbe remembered as Dickens's novels are remembered."—SpringfieldRepublican.
SOMEHOW GOOD
A lovable, humorous romance of modernEngland. $1.75.
"A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivablefrom the work of any other novelist nowliving and active in either England or America.Absolutely masterly."—Dial.
"A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, aswise, as any in the range of fiction."—Nation.
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAIN
WILLIAM DE MORGAN
AUTHOR OF "JOSEPH VANCE," "ALICE-FOR-SHORT"
AND "SOMEHOW GOOD"
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1909
[iv]Copyright, 1909.
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published November, 1909