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up the greater part of the book. The Ionian who has visited Europe has a painfully low opinion of the doctors, lawyers, and most of the clergy in England, and thinks that if they were shipped to the Antipodes, their fellow countrymen would be the gainers. The buildings, laws, and manners in this land of the immaculate bear a family likeness to those blessings which posterity is to enjoy a few centuries hence, with which our futurity romancists have made us so familiar. The author so admires the laws of this country of his creation that he argues at some length in favor of their adoption here, where we are not exempt from the heritage of sin. His story makes good reading." Public Opinion.

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Javan Ben Seir. By Walker Kennedy. cloth. Price 55 cents. By mail 67 cents. "Javan Ben Seir' is a romance of the Old Testament days, when Rehoboam was king. The author, Walker Kennedy, has wisely chosen to let the interest center upon his imaginary characters, although following closely the history of those troublous times. Notably effective is the picture of the feast of tabernacles and Issachar's public reproach of Rehoboam. The custom of blood atonement is made a leading motive and the flight of the supposed slayer to a city of refuge is described vividly. Mr. Kennedy's story is the outcome of careful study of history, and makes an attractive portrayal of the old days of Israel."-Public Opinion.

John Ship Mariner, or, By Dint of Valor. By Knarf Elivas. 12mo. cloth. Illustrated. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

John Strathbourne. A Romance of the days of Francis I. By R. D. Chetwode. (Town and Country Library.) 12mo. paper. Price 33 cents. By mail 40

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King's Jackal (The). By Richard Harding Davis. With illustrations and a cover design by Charles Dana Gibson. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.00. The same verve and dramatic quality that made Mr Davis's Soldiers of Fortune" so universally enjoyed, bid fair to send his new story to the same remarkable sale of more than 50,000 copies. The action of The King's Jackal" occupies only thirty-six hours, at Tangiers, where Mr. Davis has already shown himself a master of local color and spirit and in this time is developed the conspiracy of an exiled king against his former subjects, only to be thwarted by the successful interference of an American newspaper correspondent, who at the same time rescues from imposition an American heiress already partly caught in the tangled net of these political intrigues. Through all this runs the love story of the beautiful American and a romantic hero, who is perhaps the most attractive as he is almost the only disinterested character of the episode.

King Washington. A Romance of the Hudson. By Adelaide Skeel and William H. Brearley. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

Kronstadt. A Romance. By Max Pemberton. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Mr. Pemberton has written a stirring romance of love, adventure, and political intrigue, and no reader who begins his tale will be content to leave it unfinished. The interior of the gloomy fortress of Kronstadt, the Baltic, the Finnish islands, and London, furnish the background for swiftly moving scenes which are tense with suspended interest, with the power of love, and with the stress of peril. Although a story of the present day, the pulse of adventure and romance throbs as strongly in these pages as in a

mediæval tale.

Leddy Marget. By L. B. Waford. Author of "Mr. Smith," "Iva Kildare," etc., etc. 12mo. cloth. Ornamental. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Lost Man's Lane By Anna Katherine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). 16mo. cloth. Price 75 cents. By mail 85 cents. Paper 33 cents. By mail 43 cents. Mrs. Rohlfs demonstrates in the mystery of "Lost Man's Lane" that she has lost none of the skill which went to unravel the "Leavenworth Case." Her detectives, professional and amateur, are old friends, and as such, welcome. In this case they have no less than five murders to account for. They also enjoy the advantages of a phantom coach, a very unpleasant lunatic, and a forgery. These are the chief mysteries, but there are several minor problems, as side dishes. Together they form a delectable meal.

Love and Rocks. By Laura E. Richards, author of "Captain January," etc. (Second edition.) With frontispiece. 16mo. Price 75 cents. By mail 82

cents.

"A June love episode. The actors are a student of Smith College in search of a quiet spot to decide whether she shall devote herself to literature or to medicine, and a Harvard student trying to rest from the study of surgerv. A beautiful spot on a New England rock-bound coast and opportunity change the thoughts of both. The descriptions of landscape are a special feature of the story."-Publishers' Weekly.

Love in Friendship. (A nameless sentiment.) Preface in fragments from de Stendhal. Translated by Henri Pène DuBois, 8vo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

See Review.

Love Songs of France. Illustrated with frontispiece in color and photogravures in tints. Translated from the originals of Baudelaire, De Musset, Lamartine, Gautier, De Beranger, Parry, Nadaud. Dupont and others. Large post 8vo. exquisitely bound in white vellum, with slip cover, in a box. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Only the purest examples of the great French poets appear in this volume, which is an excellent example of present day fine book making. Several well executed photogravures of paintings by French masters are used for illustrations, and the volume is frontispieced with a heliotype of

Paul Thumann's famous "Psyche," the soft, rich colors of which are extremely pleasing. The binding is a white vellum carrying a conventional stamp in gold, blue and red of roses, fleur de lis and hearts. Over this is a neat cloth protective cover in sage green. Its contents well merit the setting.

Lucky Bargee. A novel. By Harry Lander. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

Anyone appreciating originality, the gift of story telling and character delineation that combines the fidelity of the photograph and the subtler qualities revealed only to those artistic observers-artists with pigments or with pen-who penetrate below the surface, will surely derive much pleasure from this interesting story. The nero-the eventually lucky bargee-is the neglected son of a gentleman whom circumstance throws upon his own efforts for support.

Into a malstrom of evil living come regeneration and romance, and the reader who pines for à "good" ending will find her wish gratified, while those who care for vivid pictures of life and a sympathetic appreciation of the needs of the under tow of humanity will enjoy the author's presentment (as applied to certain classes) of the most vital problem of the age-the uplifting of the submerged ones.

Making of a Millionaire. By Himself. 12mo. paper. Price 33 cents. By mail 40 cents.

An inviting title is only a hint of the good things in the Making of a Millionaire," a "true story told by himself." Our brains have become so wearied with so much war talk during the past three months, and before the war broke out by the countless problem novels, that it is like a dish of mental ice cream to pick up this breezy little story. The story is the autobiography of a self-made millionaire who tells in a snappy, chatty way the numerous ad

ventures he has had in his varied career from printer's devil to wealthy British nobleman. The blunt and somewhat cranky hero "takes the reader by the button-hole and shows him how he (the reader) is being humbugged every day in the year without ever suspecting it; then he confesses how he has made his own fortune by means so simple that the reader wonders why the same scheme has never suggested itself to him.

The account of the hero's experience as a newspaper man, and his description of the inside methods of yellow Journalism are as amusing as they are true to life.

Although there is more humor than sadness in the "Making of a Millionaire" there is just enough genuine pathos here and there to bring a tear to the eye and to make the reader appreciate all the better the laugh that follows. The hero is not one of the cut-and-dried variety. He is just a natural man who yields to temptations occasionally, and all the rest of it.

The story is daintily illustrated by numerous drawings by Gordon H. Grant-a signature well known on society pictures. Altogether, it is just the thing to keep one cool on a hot afternoon in summer.

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8vo. cloth. Price $3.00. By mail $3.25. This book examines the prevalent scientific ideas as to the origin of the beliefs in the Soul and in God. The result of criticism and comparison of evidence, savage and civilized, is to indicate that the belief in the Soul is supported by facts which Materialism cannot explain. The belief in God, again, far from being evolved out of the worship of ghosts (as is commonly alleged by anthropologists), is proved to occur where ghosts are not yet worshipped. The argument is finally applied to the current hypotheses of the origin of the Hebrew religion.

Making of a Saint (The). By W. Somerset Maugham. Illustrated by Gilbert James. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

"The Making of a Saint is a romance of Mediæval Italy, the scene being laid in the 15th century. It relates the life of a young leader of Free Companions who, at the close of one of the many petty Italian wars, returns to his native city. There he becomes involved in its politics, intrigues, and feuds, and finally joins an uprising of the townspeople against their lord. None can resent the frankness and apparent brutality of the scenes through which the hero and his companions of both sexes are made to pass, and many will yield ungrudging praise to the author's vital handling of the truth. In the characters are mirrored the life of the Italy of their day. The book will confirm Mr. Maugham's reputation as a strong and original writer.

Masters and Their Music (The). A Series of Illustrative Programs, with Biographical, Esthetical, and Critical Annotations. Designed as an Introduction to Music as Literature. By W. S. B. Mathews. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

A useful book for musical clubs and classes and for private study. Contains instructive chapters on Modern Composers, American Composers, (A) Nationality in Music,

etc.

Man-at-Arms (A). A Romance of the days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Great Viper. By Clinton Scollard. With six full-page illustrations and a specially designed title page. By E W. D. Hamilton. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

The scene of the story is laid in Italy, in the latter part of the fourteenth century. The hero, Luigi Della Verria, unable to bear the restrictions of home or to reconcile himself to the profession of law, as desired by his father, leaves his family and, as the result of chance, becomes a man-at-arms in the service of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the cunning and unscrupulous Lord of Pavia, known as the Great Viper. Thenceforward the vicissitudes, and adventures, both in love and war, of Della Verria, are told in a way to incite the interest to the highest point; and a strong picture is drawn of Italian life at this period, with its petty vendettas, family broils, and the unprincipled methods employed by the heads of noble families to gain their personal ends.

An individual value is added to the book by the illustrations and title page, drawn by Mr. E. W. D. Hamilton.

Meg of the Scarlet Float. By W. Edwards Tirebuck. 8vo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. Memories of a Rear-Admiral, who has served for more than a half a century in the navy of the United States. By S. R. Franklin. 8vo. cloth. Price $2.25. By mail $2.45.

Mere Folly. A novel. By Maria Louise Poole, author of "In a Dike Shanty," etc. Illustrated. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

An extremely well-written story of modern life. The interest centres in the development of the character of the heroine, a New England girl, whose high-strung temperament is in constant revolt against the confining limitations of nineteenth century surroundings. The reader's interest is held to the end, and the book will take high rank among American psychological novels.

Millionaires (The). A novel. By F. Frankfort Moore. 12mo. paper. (Town and Country Library.) Price 33 cents. By mail 40 cents

Miss Theodora. A Boston West End Story. By Helen Leah Reed. With twenty-nine illustrations by Florence Pearl England. 16mo. cloth. Price 75 cents. By mail 85 cents.

Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton says: "It is a delightful picture of Boston life-the conservatism of the old regime -the success and energy of the new. The characters are so human they must be drawn from life. It is more Bostonian than any story I can think of."

Moriah's Mourning, and Other Half Hour Sketches. By Ruth McEnery Stuart. 8vo. cloth. Illustrated. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

Mother Truth's Melodies. A Kindergarten of the most useful knowledge for children. Presenting lessons that charm the child of two years; delight the one of ten; entertain those of fifteen, and serve as a pleasant review of important subjects for those still older. By Mrs. E. P. Miller. With 450 illustrations. 8vo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

The work imparts elementary instruction in leading branches of knowledge, in rhymes as easy, and in jingles as fascinating as characterize the venerable "Mother Goose," without the proverbial nonsense and exaggeration of those rhymes, which confessedly convey erroneous ideas, give an unhealthful stimulus to the imagination, and thus corrupt the taste for good reading. It contains a large collection of the sweetest lullabies, designed for recitation in the nursery before the alphabet is learned.

Then follows the alphabet on the Kindergarten plan succeeded by simple spelling and relations of numbers. On the same plan essential lessons are given in anatomy, physiology, astronomy, grammar, composition, physics, natural history, geography, history, temperance, and other moral subjects, etc., etc., all reduced to the comprehension of the child without the silly sentimentalism so characteristic of juvenile books which offends if it does not disgust the intelligence and well known quick perception of children. It is not merely a baby's book "-it is more, being both entertaining and instructive for years of the life of the boy or girl.

When the lesson permits, which is nearly always the case, it is fully illustrated with the most appropriate and suggestive cuts.

My Friend the Captain, or, Two Yankees in Europe. By W. L. Terhune. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Mr. W. L. Terhune, a Bostonian, being a great observer, has made a delightful story out of the sights and scenes of a four months' tour abroad during the summer of 1897. His friend, "The Captain," who was his companion, must have caused the author an endless amount of trouble and

many sleepless nights, but "The Captain was such a patriotic American that he made it lively for all he met. The book is illustrated with nearly one hundred pictures.

Nation's Navy (The). Our Ships and Their Achievements. By Chas. Morris. 8vo. cloth. Illustrated with photographs of our battleships. Price $1.10. By mail $1.25.

Nature for its Own Sake. By John C. Van Dyke, L.H.D., Professor of Art at Rutgers College. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

CONTENTS: Pure and Reflected Light-Broken and Shaded Light-The Blue Sky-Clouds and Cloud FormsRain and Snow-The Open Sea-Along Shore-Running Waters Still Waters-The Earth Frame-Mountains and Hills-Valleys and Lowlands-Leaf and Branch-Earth Coverings.

This is a new book on Nature, from an entirely new standpoint, its object being to point out what things in Nature are beautiful and to show why they are so. In one

sense, therefore, it is a guide to Nature, which tells people how to look intelligently at her infinitely varied manifestations. The author is at once Nature-lover, landscape painter and scientist, and his volume is widely different from anything yet written.

Nature Versus Drugs. A Challenge to the

Drugging Fraternity. By A. F. Reinhold, Ph.D., M D. 8vo. 154 illustrations. Cloth. Price $3.00. By mail $3.25.

It teaches: (1) The conditions and preservation of health by natural means and a rational living. (2) It shows how the various ailments arise from our acting counter to the laws of health. (3) It explains that health can only be restored by our return to man's normal mode of living.

It maintains: (1) That the Medical Profession is ignorant of the nature of both health and sickness, and that consequently medical treatment lacks scientific foundation and is a blind experiment on people's lives. (2) All medical measures are makeshifts, but no radical cures. (83) Our body consists of cells, and each cell, of definite chemical elements. The simplest food contains the same elements as the cells, and is alone capable of building up normal cells, and thus maintain the body in health. All drugs are poisonous, i. e., drugs contain elements not found in normal cells; they kill the cells, and hence destroy health and abridge life. There are no more ignorant people than the drug prescribers, who possess so little intellect that they imagine that poisoning sick people can make them well. (4) There are hundreds of chronic ailments; as they spring from the acute condition, their existence proves that the drug people cannot cure anything, neither the acute nor chronic forms of disease, not even a little cold. (5) By their pain-killers they mislead the public judgment to the opinion that as soon as the pain has vanished, cure is effected; in reality, pain-killers kill our nerves inch-ways, but our health and life depend on the integrity of all our nerves; Nature did not give us one too many. (6) All the so-called incurable diseases-blindness, deafness, cancer, diabetes, paralysis, etc.-are caused by the drugging profession, either directly by means of medicines, or indirectly, by perverse doctrines of hygiene.

This is a bold book. It is intended to rid the world of the drugging mania of the most ignorant physicians, and will therefore no doubt raise a good deal of indignation and opposition among the medical and pharmaceutical professions. Yet it is an interesting book and will no doubt have a large sale.

Naval Militia, 1894 (The). Edited by D. N. B. Sturgis and Barter Seagrave. Large folio. Leather. Price 75 cents. By mail 90 cents.

Nephele. By Wm. Francis Bour-Dillon. Author of

The Night has a Thousand Eyes and the Day but One." 12mo. cloth. Price 75 cents. By mail 87 cents. Probably no more exquisite musical romance has ever been written. It is a musical classic; prose written with all the finesse and feeling of the poet. Its allegorical significance will come with especial force to the skilled and sympathetic musician, yet none with an atom of musical appreciation can read it without thrilling under its delicate suggestions.

The charm is as subtle and intangible as the haunting memory of some half-forgotten strain of sweetest music."N. Y. Sun.

New Sensation (A). By Albert Ross. 12mo. paper.
Price 33 cents. By mail 40 cents.
See notice at the beginning of this list.

New Illuminated Holy Bible (The). Self-pronouncing with marginal references, concordance, maps and numerous helps. (Teacher's Edition.) Six hundred illustrations. Containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Bound in seal. Price $2.25. By mail $2.50.

Omar the Tentmaker. A Romance of Old Persia. By Nathan Haskell Dole. Illustrated. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Mr. Dole's study of Persian Literature and history admirably equips him to enter into the life and spirit of the time of the romance, and the host of admirers of the inim itable quatrains of Omar Khayyam, made famous by Fitzgerald will be deeply interested in a tale based on authentic facts in the career of the famous Persian poet. The three chief characters are Omar Khayyam, Nizam-ul-Mulk, the generous and high-minded Vizier of the Tartar Sultan Malik Shah of Mero, and Hassan ibu Sabbah, the ambitious and revengeful founder of the sect of the Assassins. The scene is laid partly at Naishapur, in the Province of Khorasan, which about the period of the First Crusade was at its acme of civilization and refinement, and partly in the mountain fortress of Alamut, south of the Caspian Sea, where the Ismailians under Hassan established themselves towards the close of the 11th century. Human nature is always the same, and the passions of love and ambition, of religion and fanaticism, of friendship and jealousy, are admirably contrasted in the fortunes of these three able and remarkable characters as well as in those of the minor personages of the story.

Outlines of the Earth's History. By Prof. N. S. Shaler, of Harvard University. Illustrated. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.35. By mail $1.50.

Professor Shaler's "Outlines of the Earth's History" is one of the most important and attractive of the author's valuable contributions to the popularization of science. His book is properly a popular nandbook of physiography, treating as it does of the exterior physical features of the earth, and the action thereon of fire, water, and ice, and various phases of the atmosphere. The book is a simple, interesting account of the natural features and conditions of our environment, and it is therefore of immediate concern to the intelligent reader. The larger features of the earth's history are sketched in an informing, suggestive manner, and the salient points in a wide survey are noted. Professor Shaler's comprehensive knowledge and graphic style have imparted to his book a peculiar distinction. In its wide range of information and the lucidity with which the various themes are treated, the book possesses a value which will be appreciated by many readers and by students. "The object of this book is to provide the beginner in the study of the earth's history with a general account of those actions which can be readily understood and which will afford him clear understandings as to the nature of the processes which have made this and other celestial spheres. It has been the writer's purpose to select those series of facts which serve to show the continuous operations of energy, so that the reader might be helped to a truer conception of the nature of this sphere than he can obtain from ordinary text-books."

Pauline Wyman. By Sophie May. Author of "The Doctor's Daughter," "The Asbury Twins," "Quinnebasset Girls," "Our Helen.' 16mo. cloth. Illustrated. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02. "Sophie May" writes with a remarkable insight into the thought and life of girls, and shows an unaffected sympathy in the perplexities, aspirations, and disappointments of their experience. All of her characters are naturally drawn and skilfully placed in scenes that are described as only such an author can whose study of girlhood has been thorough and exhaustive. In "Pauline Wyman the author has drawn a typical New England girl whose strong and beautiful character is developed by her environment. How she overcomes unfavorable surroundings, her experi

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Prescott's Works. Complete, including Life of Prescott by Tincknar. Excellent Library edition just issued in 16 volumes bound in cloth. Illustrated. Price $20.00. (By subscription.)

Pride of Jennico, The. Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico. By Agnes and Egerton Castle. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. "There is a wealth of historic detail which lends an interest to the story apart from the romantic love affair between Captain Jennico and the Princess Marie Ottilie of Lausitz. The hero's great uncle had been one of those lucky English adventurers whose Catholic religion and Jacobite leanings had debarred him from promotion at home, and who had found advancement in the service of Austria, and wealth with the hand of a Bohemian heiress. Such chances were not uncommon with Soldiers of fortune in the times of Queen Anne and the early Georges. At his uncle's death, Captain Basil Jennico, became the possessor of many millions (reckoned by the florins of that land), besides the great property of Tollendahl-fertile plains as well as wild forests, and of the isolated frowning castle of Tollendahl with its fathom thick walls, its odd pictures of half-savage dead and gone Woschutzkis, its antique clumsy furniture, tapestries, trophies of chase and war. He became master, moreover, of endless tribes of dependents, heiducks and foresters : females of all ages whose bare feet in summer pattered oddly on the floors like the tread of animals, whose high boots in winter clattered perpetually on stone flags of stairs and corridors; serf peasants, factors, overseers the strangest mixture of races that can be imagined: Slovacks, Bohemians, Poles, to labor on the glebe; Saxons or Austrians to rule over them and cypher out rosters and returns Magayrs who condescended to manage his horseflesh and watch over his safety if nothing else; the traveling bands of gypsies, ever changing but never failing with the dance, the song and the music, which was as indispensable as salt to the life of that motley population.

"The story is largely historical, both German and English elements entering into it. The scene changes from the old castle of Tollendahl to an English country house and London club, always maintaining its old world flavor.

"The tale is gracefully told, and owing partly to this fact and to the novelty of the setting given to Basil Jennico's amazing experience, it gains for itself a place apart. *** It is an artistic production and it is original.". The New York Tribune.

Recessional. A Victorian Ode. By Rudyard Kipling. 16mo. pamphlet. Price 20 cents. By mail 23

cents.

Red and Black. By Henri Beyle (de Stendahl). Two volumes. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.50. By mail $1.75.

Regret of Spring. A Love Episode. By Pitts Harrison Burt. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23. See Review.

Road to Paris (The). By Robert Neilson Stephens, author of "An Enemy to the King,' "The Continental Dragoon," etc. Illustrated by H. C. Edwards. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

An historical romance, being an account of the life of an American gentleman adventurer of Jacobite ancestry, whose family early settled in the colony of Pennsylvania. The scene shifts from the unsettled forests of the then West to Philadelphia, New York, London, Paris, and in fact, wherever a love of adventure and a roving fancy can lead a soldier of fortune. The story is written in Mr. Stephen's best style, and is of absorbing interest.

Rosin the Beau. A sequel to "Melody and Marie." By Laura E. Richards, author of "Captain January," With frontispiece. 12mo. Price 38 cents. By

etc.

mail 47 cents.

Jacques D'Arthenay, or "Rosin the Beau," as he gets to be called, is the son of Marie," the heroine of the story of that name. He tells his own story, in this little volume, in his old age, to "Melody," another of the charming figures which Mrs Richards has introduced to young readers. His mother's death, his passion for music, the coming of a French cousin to the village, who carries him back to France, where the romance of his life occurs, are among ts episodes.-Publishers' Weekly.

Rupert of Hentzau. A Sequel to the "Prisoner of Zenda." By Anthony Hope. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Review in next number.

Shifting Sands. By Frederick R. Burton. 8vo. cloth. Price 75 cents. By mail 87 cents.

Silence and Other Stories. By Mary E. Wilkins. 12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

Sons of Adversity. A Romance of Queen Elizabeth's Time. By L. Cope Conford, author of "Captain Jacobus," etc. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy.

12mo. cloth. Price 90 cents. By mail $1.02.

A tale of adventure on land and sea at the time when Protestant England and Catholic Spain were struggling for naval supremacy. Spanish conspiracies against the peace of good Queen Bess, a vivid description of the raise of the Spanish siege of Leyden by the combined Dutch and English forces, sea fights, the recovery of stolen treasure, are all skillfully woven elements in a plot of unusual strength.

Story of a Play. A Novel. By Wm. Dean Howells. 8vo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

Tales From McClures' War. Nine Stories by Nine Authors. 16mo. cloth. Price 18 cents. By mail 21 cents.

The Terror. A Romance of the French Revolution. Translated from the Provençal of Felix Gras by Catharine Janvier. 12mo. cloth. Price $1.08. By

mail $1.23.

Via Lucis. A Novel. By Kassandra Vivaria. With portrait of author. 8vo. cloth. Price $1.08. By mail $1.23.

See special article.

Voice from the West (A). By Alfred Austin. A verse of the poet Laureate, which first appeared in the London Daily Mail. Being based on the idea of sympathy and co-operation between Great Britain and the United States. 16mo. pamphlet. Price 20 cents. By mail 23 cents.

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REGINA; or, THE SINS OF THE FATHERS. By Hermann Sudermann. Translated by BEATRICE MARSHALL. Second Edition. $1.50.

The New York Times says: "Regina is a notable piece of character drawing. She is a sort of German Tess of the d'Urbervilles. She is worth knowing. A creature of circumstance, with a wealth of high impulses, she is a veritable heroine of tragedy, foredoomed from the beginning. The story of her life is one of the most vivid pieces of fiction that have come into English in these days. It is worth reading by those who are not afraid of naked humanity."

COMEDIES AND ERRORS. By Henry Harland. $1.50.

The Pall Mall Gazette (London) says: "Mr. Harland is a writer with a style and charm all his own. The House of Eulalie' touches his high-water mark. There is a terrible pathos in this little sketch of the old peasant and his dead child which is unique."

THE CHILD WHO WILL NEVER GROW OLD. By K. Douglas King. $1.25.

The Commercial Advertiser says: "A rare and sympathetic understanding of child nature gives to this little group of stories a charm not often found in books which deal almost exclusively with childhood. The book has in general the merits of strength and vividness, as well as a sympathy which is keenly alive to the highest possibilities of the subject, whether it be a pampered child or a begrimed beggar."

A RECORD OF ART IN 1898. In three parts, uniform with "The International Studio." Paper cover. 35 cents a part; by post 40 cents each. Illustrations of Paintings and Sculpture recently exhibited at the ROYAL ACADEMY and NEW GALLERY, London, and at the PARIS SALONS.

By the courtesy of the respective artists, the Editor has been able, in many cases, to secure studies and sketches, the reproduction of which, side by side with the finished pictures, cannot fail to add considerable value and interest to the publication. The three parts mailed, postpaid, on receipt of $1.20.

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