D. APPLETON & CO.’S PUBLICATIONS.AN IMAGINATIVE MAN.ByRobert S. Hichens, author of “The Green Carnation.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.“One of the brightest books of the year.”—Boston Budget.“Altogether delightful, fascinating, unusual.”—Cleveland Amusement Gazette.“A study in character.... Just as entertaining as though it were the conventional story of love and marriage. The clever hand of the author of ‘The Green Carnation’ is easily detected in the caustic wit and pointed epigram.”—Jeannette L. Gilder, in the New York World.MASTER AND MAN.By CountLeo Tolstoy. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents.“Crowded with these characteristic touches which mark his literary work.”—Public Opinion.“From the very start the reader feels that it is from a master’s pen.”—Boston Times.“Reveals a wonderful knowledge of the workings of the human mind, and it tells a tale that not only stirs the emotions, but gives us a better insight into our own hearts.”—San Francisco Argonaut.THE ZEIT-GEIST.ByL. Dougall, author of “The Mermaid,” “Beggars All,” etc. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents.“It is impossible for one to read it without feeling better for having done so; without having a desire to aid his fellow-men.”—New York Times.“One of the best of the short stories of the day.”—Boston Journal.“One of the most remarkable novels of the year.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.“Powerful in conception, treatment, and influence.”—Boston Globe.THE LAND OF THE SUN. Vistas Mexicanas.ByChristian Reid, author of “The Land of the Sky,” “A Comedy of Elopement,” etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.“Perhaps no book of recent date gives a simpler and at the same time more effective picture of this truly beautiful ‘land of the sun’ than is to be found in this striking volume.”—St. Louis Republic.“One of the most charming books of travel that we have read for a long time.... Certainly no one should ever think of visiting Mexico without taking this book of splendid description and delightful romance with him.”—Boston Home Journal.“He who would see the grandeurs of Mexico through the eyes of another should give careful perusal to Christian Reid’s portrayal of ‘The Land of the Sun,’ which in every detail is a fitting tribute to the past, present, and future conditions of the new Spain.”—Chicago Evening Post.ASTREET IN SUBURBIA.ByEdwin Pugh. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“Simplicity of style, strength, and delicacy of character study will mark this book as one of the most significant of the year.”—New York Press.“Thoroughly entertaining, and more—it shows traces of a creative genius something akin to Dickens.”—Boston Traveler.“In many respects the best of all the books of lighter literature brought out this season.”—Providence News.“A clever series of character sketches.”—Elmira Telegram.“Rippling over from end to end with fun and humor.”—London Academy.MAJESTY.A Novel. ByLouis Couperus. Translated byA. Teixeira de MattosandErnest Dowson. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“No novelist whom we can call to mind has ever given the world such a masterpiece of royal portraiture as Louis Couperus’s striking romance entitled ‘Majesty.’”—Philadelphia Record.“A very powerful and cleverly written romance.”—New York Times.“There is not an uninteresting page in the book, and it ought to be read by all who desire to keep in line with the best that is published in modern fiction.”—Buffalo Commercial.THE NEW MOON.ByC. E. Raimond, author of “George Mandeville’s Husband,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“A delicate pathos makes itself felt as the narrative progresses, whose cadences fall on the spirit’s consciousness with a sweet and soothing influence not to be measured in words.”—Boston Courier.“One of the most impressive of recent works of fiction, both for its matter and especially for its presentation.”—Milwaukee Journal.“The story is most graphically told, the characters are admirably drawn, and the moral of the whole thing is very desirable as inculcating an important lesson.”—Chicago Journal.“A surprisingly clever book in its way, being direct and simple, and true on every page to the author’s purpose.”—New York Times.THE WISH.A Novel. ByHermann Sudermann. With a Biographical Introduction byElizabeth Lee. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“Contains some superb specimens of original thought.”—New York World.“The style is direct and incisive, and holds the unflagging attention of the reader.”—Boston Journal.“A powerful story, very simple, very direct.”—Chicago Evening Post.S. R. CROCKETT’S LATEST BOOKS.UNIFORM EDITION. EACH, 12MO. CLOTH, $1.50.BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT.“Here are idyls, epics, dramas of human life, written in words that thrill and burn.... Each is a poem that has an immortal flavor. They are fragments of the author’s early dreams, too bright, too gorgeous, too full of the blood of rubies and the life of diamonds to be caught and held palpitating in expression’s grasp.”—Boston Courier.“Contains some of the most dramatic pieces Mr. Crockett has yet written, and in these picturesque sketches he is altogether delightful.... The volume is well worth reading—all of it.”—Philadelphia Press.“Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to the reader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirable portrayal of character.”—Boston Home Journal.“One dips into the book anywhere and reads on and on, fascinated by the writer’s charm of manner.”—Minneapolis Tribune.“These stories are lively and vigorous, and have many touches of human nature in them—such touches as we are used to from having read ‘The Stickit Minister’ and ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet.’”—New Haven Register.“‘Bog-Myrtle and Peat’ contains stories which could only have been written by a man of genius.”—London Chronicle.THE LILAC SUNBONNET. A Love Story.“A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome, sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our notice.”—New York Times.“A solid novel with an old-time flavor, as refreshing when compared to the average modern story as is a whiff of air from the hills to one just come from a hothouse.”—Boston Beacon.“The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet’ among the best stories of the time.”—New York Mail and Express.“In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is a pastoral, an idyl—the story of love and courtship and marriage of a fine young man and a lovely girl—no more. But it is told in so thoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate fancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be desired.”—Boston Traveller.NOVELS BY HALL CAINE.THE MANXMAN.12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“A story of marvelous dramatic intensity, and in its ethical meaning has a force comparable only to Hawthorne’s ‘Scarlet Letter.’”—Boston Beacon.“A work of power which is another stone added to the foundation of enduring fame to which Mr. Caine is yearly adding.”—Public Opinion.“A wonderfully strong study of character; a powerful analysis of those elements which go to make up the strength and weakness of a man, which are at fierce warfare within the same breast; contending against each other, as it were, the one to raise him to fame and power, the other to drag him down to degradation and shame. Never in the whole range of literature have we seen the struggle between these forces for supremacy over the man more powerfully, more realistically delineated than Mr. Caine pictures it.”—Boston Home Journal.THE DEEMSTER. A Romance of the Isle of Man.12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“Hall Caine has already given us some very strong and fine work, and ‘The Deemster’ is a story of unusual power.... Certain passages and chapters have an intensely dramatic grasp, and hold the fascinated reader with a force rarely excited nowadays in literature.”—The Critic.“One of the strongest novels which has appeared in many a day.”—San Francisco Chronicle.THE BONDMAN.New edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“The welcome given to this story has cheered and touched me, but I am conscious that, to win a reception so warm, such a book must have had readers who brought to it as much as they took away.... I have called my story a saga, merely because it follows the epic method, and I must not claim for it at any point the weighty responsibility of history, or serious obligations to the world of fact. But it matters not to me what Icelanders may call ‘The Bondman,’ if they will honor me by reading it in the open-hearted spirit and with the free mind with which they are content to read of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll.”—From the Author’s Preface.CAPT’N DAVY’S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn.12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.“A new departure by this author. Unlike his previous works, this little tale is almost wholly humorous, with, however, a current of pathos underneath. It is not always that an author can succeed equally well in tragedy and in comedy, but it looks as though Mr. Hall Caine would be one of the exceptions.”—London Literary World.“It is pleasant to meet the author of ‘The Deemster’ in a brightly humorous little story like this.... It shows the same observation of Manx character, and much of the same artistic skill.”—Philadelphia Times.By A. CONAN DOYLE.THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS.Being a Series of Twelve Letters written byJ. Stark Munro, M. B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884. Illustrated. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50.This original and dramatic story presents fresh types, extraordinary situations, and novel suggestions with a freshness and vigor which show that the romancer’s heart was in his work. How far certain incidents of the story are based upon personal experiences it is impossible to say, but the unflagging interest and unexpected phases of the romance are no less in evidence than the close personal relations established between author and reader. In the “Stark Munro Letters” the author has achieved another success which will add to the number of his American friends and readers.“Any one who has read any of the fascinating stories in which the shrewd detective, Sherlock Holmes, figures as the very personification of detective logic applied to the detection of crime, knows that Conan Doyle is a story-teller of the very first order of merit. Like his own character, Sherlock Holmes, he possesses the power of getting out of everything all there is in it.”—Philadelphia Item.“Dr. Doyle’s stories are so well known for their strong dramatic style, for the elegance of expression, that anything new from his pen is sure to be warmly welcomed. His readers are sure of getting a literary treat from anything he writes. He is broad-minded and liberal, and the man who could write two such books as ‘The White Company’ and ‘The Refugees’ has a future which the shades of Scott and Dickens might envy.”—Albany Times-Union.ROUND THE RED LAMP.12mo. Cloth, $1.50.Seventh edition.The “Red Lamp,” the trade-mark, as it were, of the English country practitioner’s office, is the central point of these dramatic stories of professional life. There are no secrets for the surgeon, and, a surgeon himself as well as a novelist, the author has made a most artistic use of the motives and springs of action revealed to him in a field of which he is the master.“Too much can not be said in praise of these strong productions, that, to read, keep one’s heart leaping to the throat and the mind in a tumult of anticipation to the end.... No series of short stories in modern literature can approach them.”—Hartford Times.“The reading of these choice stories will prove an exciting pleasure to all who may linger on the pages that present them.”—Boston Courier.“A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.PAUL AND VIRGINIA.ByBernardin de Saint-Pierre. With a Biographical Sketch, and numerous Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, uniform with “Picciola,” “The Story of Colette,” and “An Attic Philosopher in Paris.” $1.50.It is believed that this standard edition of “Paul and Virginia” with Leloir’s charming illustrations will prove a most acceptable addition to the series of illustrated foreign classics in which D. Appleton & Co. have published “The Story of Colette,” “An Attic Philosopher in Paris,” and “Picciola.” No more sympathetic illustrator than Leloir could be found, and his treatment of this masterpiece of French literature invests it with a peculiar value.PICCIOLA.ByX. B. Saintine. With 130 Illustrations byJ. F. Gueldry. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.“Saintine’s ‘Picciola,’ the pathetic tale of the prisoner who raised a flower between the cracks of the flagging of his dungeon, has passed definitely into the list of classic books.... It has never been more beautifully housed than in this edition, with its fine typography, binding, and sympathetic illustrations.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER IN PARIS; or, A Peep at the World from a Garret.Being the Journal of a Happy Man. ByÉmile Souvestre. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.“A suitable holiday gift for a friend who appreciates refined literature.”—Boston Times.“The influence of the book is wholly good. The volume is a particularly handsome one.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.“It is a classic. It has found an appropriate reliquary. Faithfully translated, charmingly illustrated by Jean Claude with full-page pictures, vignettes in the text, and head and tail pieces, printed in graceful type on handsome paper, and bound with an art worthy of Matthews, in half-cloth, ornamented on the cover, it is an exemplary book, fit to be ‘a treasure for aye.’”—New York Times.THE STORY OF COLETTE.A new large-paper edition. With 36 Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.“One of the handsomest of the books of fiction for the holiday season.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.“One of the gems of the season.... It is the story of the life of young womanhood in France, dramatically told, with the light and shade and coloring of the genuine artist, and is utterly free from that which mars too many French novels. In its literary finish it is well nigh perfect, indicating the hand of the master.”—Boston Traveller.AFRIEND OF THE QUEEN.(Marie Antoinette—Count de Fersen.) ByPaul Gaulot. With Two Portraits, 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.“M. Gaulot deserves thanks for presenting the personal history of Count Fersen in a manner so evidently candid and unbiased.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.“There are some characters in history of whom we never seem to grow tired. Of no one is this so much the case as of the beautiful Marie Antoinette, and of that life which is at once so eventful and so tragic.... In this work we have much that up to the present time has been only vaguely known.”—Philadelphia Press.“A historical volume that will be eagerly read.”—New York Observer.“One of those captivating recitals of the romance of truth which are the gilding of the pill of history.”—London Daily News.“It tells with new and authentic details the romantic story of Count Fersen’s (the Friend of the Queen) devotion to Marie Antoinette, of his share in the celebrated flight to Varennes, and in many other well known episodes of the unhappy Queen’s life.”—London Times.“If the book had no more recommendation than the mere fact that Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen are rescued at last from the voluminous and contradictory representations with which the literature of that period abounds, it would be enough compensation to any reader to become acquainted with the true delineations of two of the most romantically tragic personalities.—”Boston Globe.THE ROMANCE OF AN EMPRESS. Catharine II of Russia.ByK. Waliszewski. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.“Of Catharine’s marvelous career we have in this volume a sympathetic, learned, and picturesque narrative. No royal career, not even of some of the Roman or papal ones, has better shown us how truth can be stranger than fiction.”—New York Times.“A striking and able work, deserving of the highest praise.”—Philadelphia Ledger.“The book is well called a romance, for although no legends are admitted in it, and the author has been at pains to present nothing but verified facts, the actual career of the subject was so abnormal and sensational as to seem to belong to fiction.”—New York Sun.“A dignified, handsome, indeed superb volume, and well worth careful reading.”—Chicago Herald.“It is a most wonderful story, charmingly told, with new material to sustain it, and a breadth and temperance and consideration that go far to soften one’s estimate of one of the most extraordinary women of history.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.“The perusal of such a book can not fail to add to that breadth of view which is so essential to the student of universal history.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.MANY INVENTIONS.ByRudyard Kipling. Containing fourteen stories, several of which are now published for the first time, and two poems, 12mo. 427 pages. Cloth, $1.50.“The reader turns from its pages with the conviction that the author has no superior to-day in animated narrative and virility of style. He remains master of a power in which none of his contemporaries approach him—the ability to select out of countless details the few vital ones which create the finished picture. He knows how, with a phrase or a word, to make you see his characters as he sees them, to make you feel the full meaning of a dramatic situation.”—New York Tribune.“‘Many Inventions’ will confirm Mr. Kipling’s reputation.... We would cite with pleasure sentences from almost every page, and extract incidents from almost every story. But to what end? Here is the completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“Mr. Kipling’s powers as a story-teller are evidently not diminishing. We advise everybody to buy ‘Many Inventions,’ and to profit by some of the best entertainment that modern fiction has to offer.”—New York Sun.“‘Many Inventions’ will be welcomed wherever the English language is spoken.... Every one of the stories bears the imprint of a master who conjures up incident as if by magic, and who portrays character, scenery, and feeling with an ease which is only exceeded by the boldness of force.”—Boston Globe.“The book will get and hold the closest attention of the reader.”—American Bookseller.“Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s place in the world of letters is unique. He sits quite aloof and alone, the incomparable and inimitable master of the exquisitely fine art of short-story writing. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson has perhaps written several tales which match the run of Mr. Kipling’s work, but the best of Mr. Kipling’s tales are matchless, and his latest collection, ‘Many Inventions,’ contains several such.”—Philadelphia Press.“Of late essays in fiction the work of Kipling can be compared to only three—Blackmore’s ‘Lorna Doone,’ Stevenson’s marvelous sketch of Villon in the ‘New Arabian Nights,’ and Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles.’... It is probably owing to this extreme care that ‘Many Inventions’ is undoubtedly Mr. Kipling’s best book.”—Chicago Post.“Mr. Kipling’s style is too well known to American readers to require introduction, but it can scarcely be amiss to say there is not a story in this collection that does not more than repay a perusal of them all.”—Baltimore American.“As a writer of short stories Rudyard Kipling is a genius. He has had imitators, but they have not been successful in dimming the luster of his achievements by contrast.... ‘Many Inventions’ is the title. And they are inventions—entirely original in incident, ingenious in plot, and startling by their boldness and force.”—Rochester Herald.New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue.
D. APPLETON & CO.’S PUBLICATIONS.AN IMAGINATIVE MAN.ByRobert S. Hichens, author of “The Green Carnation.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.“One of the brightest books of the year.”—Boston Budget.“Altogether delightful, fascinating, unusual.”—Cleveland Amusement Gazette.“A study in character.... Just as entertaining as though it were the conventional story of love and marriage. The clever hand of the author of ‘The Green Carnation’ is easily detected in the caustic wit and pointed epigram.”—Jeannette L. Gilder, in the New York World.MASTER AND MAN.By CountLeo Tolstoy. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents.“Crowded with these characteristic touches which mark his literary work.”—Public Opinion.“From the very start the reader feels that it is from a master’s pen.”—Boston Times.“Reveals a wonderful knowledge of the workings of the human mind, and it tells a tale that not only stirs the emotions, but gives us a better insight into our own hearts.”—San Francisco Argonaut.THE ZEIT-GEIST.ByL. Dougall, author of “The Mermaid,” “Beggars All,” etc. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents.“It is impossible for one to read it without feeling better for having done so; without having a desire to aid his fellow-men.”—New York Times.“One of the best of the short stories of the day.”—Boston Journal.“One of the most remarkable novels of the year.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.“Powerful in conception, treatment, and influence.”—Boston Globe.THE LAND OF THE SUN. Vistas Mexicanas.ByChristian Reid, author of “The Land of the Sky,” “A Comedy of Elopement,” etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.“Perhaps no book of recent date gives a simpler and at the same time more effective picture of this truly beautiful ‘land of the sun’ than is to be found in this striking volume.”—St. Louis Republic.“One of the most charming books of travel that we have read for a long time.... Certainly no one should ever think of visiting Mexico without taking this book of splendid description and delightful romance with him.”—Boston Home Journal.“He who would see the grandeurs of Mexico through the eyes of another should give careful perusal to Christian Reid’s portrayal of ‘The Land of the Sun,’ which in every detail is a fitting tribute to the past, present, and future conditions of the new Spain.”—Chicago Evening Post.ASTREET IN SUBURBIA.ByEdwin Pugh. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“Simplicity of style, strength, and delicacy of character study will mark this book as one of the most significant of the year.”—New York Press.“Thoroughly entertaining, and more—it shows traces of a creative genius something akin to Dickens.”—Boston Traveler.“In many respects the best of all the books of lighter literature brought out this season.”—Providence News.“A clever series of character sketches.”—Elmira Telegram.“Rippling over from end to end with fun and humor.”—London Academy.MAJESTY.A Novel. ByLouis Couperus. Translated byA. Teixeira de MattosandErnest Dowson. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“No novelist whom we can call to mind has ever given the world such a masterpiece of royal portraiture as Louis Couperus’s striking romance entitled ‘Majesty.’”—Philadelphia Record.“A very powerful and cleverly written romance.”—New York Times.“There is not an uninteresting page in the book, and it ought to be read by all who desire to keep in line with the best that is published in modern fiction.”—Buffalo Commercial.THE NEW MOON.ByC. E. Raimond, author of “George Mandeville’s Husband,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“A delicate pathos makes itself felt as the narrative progresses, whose cadences fall on the spirit’s consciousness with a sweet and soothing influence not to be measured in words.”—Boston Courier.“One of the most impressive of recent works of fiction, both for its matter and especially for its presentation.”—Milwaukee Journal.“The story is most graphically told, the characters are admirably drawn, and the moral of the whole thing is very desirable as inculcating an important lesson.”—Chicago Journal.“A surprisingly clever book in its way, being direct and simple, and true on every page to the author’s purpose.”—New York Times.THE WISH.A Novel. ByHermann Sudermann. With a Biographical Introduction byElizabeth Lee. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.“Contains some superb specimens of original thought.”—New York World.“The style is direct and incisive, and holds the unflagging attention of the reader.”—Boston Journal.“A powerful story, very simple, very direct.”—Chicago Evening Post.S. R. CROCKETT’S LATEST BOOKS.UNIFORM EDITION. EACH, 12MO. CLOTH, $1.50.BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT.“Here are idyls, epics, dramas of human life, written in words that thrill and burn.... Each is a poem that has an immortal flavor. They are fragments of the author’s early dreams, too bright, too gorgeous, too full of the blood of rubies and the life of diamonds to be caught and held palpitating in expression’s grasp.”—Boston Courier.“Contains some of the most dramatic pieces Mr. Crockett has yet written, and in these picturesque sketches he is altogether delightful.... The volume is well worth reading—all of it.”—Philadelphia Press.“Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to the reader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirable portrayal of character.”—Boston Home Journal.“One dips into the book anywhere and reads on and on, fascinated by the writer’s charm of manner.”—Minneapolis Tribune.“These stories are lively and vigorous, and have many touches of human nature in them—such touches as we are used to from having read ‘The Stickit Minister’ and ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet.’”—New Haven Register.“‘Bog-Myrtle and Peat’ contains stories which could only have been written by a man of genius.”—London Chronicle.THE LILAC SUNBONNET. A Love Story.“A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome, sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our notice.”—New York Times.“A solid novel with an old-time flavor, as refreshing when compared to the average modern story as is a whiff of air from the hills to one just come from a hothouse.”—Boston Beacon.“The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet’ among the best stories of the time.”—New York Mail and Express.“In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is a pastoral, an idyl—the story of love and courtship and marriage of a fine young man and a lovely girl—no more. But it is told in so thoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate fancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be desired.”—Boston Traveller.NOVELS BY HALL CAINE.THE MANXMAN.12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“A story of marvelous dramatic intensity, and in its ethical meaning has a force comparable only to Hawthorne’s ‘Scarlet Letter.’”—Boston Beacon.“A work of power which is another stone added to the foundation of enduring fame to which Mr. Caine is yearly adding.”—Public Opinion.“A wonderfully strong study of character; a powerful analysis of those elements which go to make up the strength and weakness of a man, which are at fierce warfare within the same breast; contending against each other, as it were, the one to raise him to fame and power, the other to drag him down to degradation and shame. Never in the whole range of literature have we seen the struggle between these forces for supremacy over the man more powerfully, more realistically delineated than Mr. Caine pictures it.”—Boston Home Journal.THE DEEMSTER. A Romance of the Isle of Man.12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“Hall Caine has already given us some very strong and fine work, and ‘The Deemster’ is a story of unusual power.... Certain passages and chapters have an intensely dramatic grasp, and hold the fascinated reader with a force rarely excited nowadays in literature.”—The Critic.“One of the strongest novels which has appeared in many a day.”—San Francisco Chronicle.THE BONDMAN.New edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“The welcome given to this story has cheered and touched me, but I am conscious that, to win a reception so warm, such a book must have had readers who brought to it as much as they took away.... I have called my story a saga, merely because it follows the epic method, and I must not claim for it at any point the weighty responsibility of history, or serious obligations to the world of fact. But it matters not to me what Icelanders may call ‘The Bondman,’ if they will honor me by reading it in the open-hearted spirit and with the free mind with which they are content to read of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll.”—From the Author’s Preface.CAPT’N DAVY’S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn.12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.“A new departure by this author. Unlike his previous works, this little tale is almost wholly humorous, with, however, a current of pathos underneath. It is not always that an author can succeed equally well in tragedy and in comedy, but it looks as though Mr. Hall Caine would be one of the exceptions.”—London Literary World.“It is pleasant to meet the author of ‘The Deemster’ in a brightly humorous little story like this.... It shows the same observation of Manx character, and much of the same artistic skill.”—Philadelphia Times.By A. CONAN DOYLE.THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS.Being a Series of Twelve Letters written byJ. Stark Munro, M. B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884. Illustrated. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50.This original and dramatic story presents fresh types, extraordinary situations, and novel suggestions with a freshness and vigor which show that the romancer’s heart was in his work. How far certain incidents of the story are based upon personal experiences it is impossible to say, but the unflagging interest and unexpected phases of the romance are no less in evidence than the close personal relations established between author and reader. In the “Stark Munro Letters” the author has achieved another success which will add to the number of his American friends and readers.“Any one who has read any of the fascinating stories in which the shrewd detective, Sherlock Holmes, figures as the very personification of detective logic applied to the detection of crime, knows that Conan Doyle is a story-teller of the very first order of merit. Like his own character, Sherlock Holmes, he possesses the power of getting out of everything all there is in it.”—Philadelphia Item.“Dr. Doyle’s stories are so well known for their strong dramatic style, for the elegance of expression, that anything new from his pen is sure to be warmly welcomed. His readers are sure of getting a literary treat from anything he writes. He is broad-minded and liberal, and the man who could write two such books as ‘The White Company’ and ‘The Refugees’ has a future which the shades of Scott and Dickens might envy.”—Albany Times-Union.ROUND THE RED LAMP.12mo. Cloth, $1.50.Seventh edition.The “Red Lamp,” the trade-mark, as it were, of the English country practitioner’s office, is the central point of these dramatic stories of professional life. There are no secrets for the surgeon, and, a surgeon himself as well as a novelist, the author has made a most artistic use of the motives and springs of action revealed to him in a field of which he is the master.“Too much can not be said in praise of these strong productions, that, to read, keep one’s heart leaping to the throat and the mind in a tumult of anticipation to the end.... No series of short stories in modern literature can approach them.”—Hartford Times.“The reading of these choice stories will prove an exciting pleasure to all who may linger on the pages that present them.”—Boston Courier.“A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.PAUL AND VIRGINIA.ByBernardin de Saint-Pierre. With a Biographical Sketch, and numerous Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, uniform with “Picciola,” “The Story of Colette,” and “An Attic Philosopher in Paris.” $1.50.It is believed that this standard edition of “Paul and Virginia” with Leloir’s charming illustrations will prove a most acceptable addition to the series of illustrated foreign classics in which D. Appleton & Co. have published “The Story of Colette,” “An Attic Philosopher in Paris,” and “Picciola.” No more sympathetic illustrator than Leloir could be found, and his treatment of this masterpiece of French literature invests it with a peculiar value.PICCIOLA.ByX. B. Saintine. With 130 Illustrations byJ. F. Gueldry. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.“Saintine’s ‘Picciola,’ the pathetic tale of the prisoner who raised a flower between the cracks of the flagging of his dungeon, has passed definitely into the list of classic books.... 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Transcriber’s Notes:On page 8, cinder-flare has been changed to cinder flare.On page 23, may-be has been changed to maybe.On page 73, door-sill has been changed to doorsill.On page 157, road bed has been changed to road-bed.Variant and archaic spellings and dialect have been retained as typeset.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
On page 8, cinder-flare has been changed to cinder flare.
On page 23, may-be has been changed to maybe.
On page 73, door-sill has been changed to doorsill.
On page 157, road bed has been changed to road-bed.
Variant and archaic spellings and dialect have been retained as typeset.