THE ROMANCE OF THE CANONESS. A LIFE-HISTORY. ByPaul Heyse, author of "In Paradise," etc. Translated from the German byJ. M. Percival. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; half bound, 75 cents.
IN PARADISE. A NOVEL. From the German ofPaul Heyse. A new edition. In two vols. 12mo, half bound (in boards, with red cloth backs and paper sides). Price, for the two vols., $1.50.
"We may call 'In Paradise' a great novel with the utmost confidence in our judgment of it."--N. Y. Evening Post.
TALES OF PAUL HEYSE. 16mo. Paper, 25 cents; cloth, 60 cents.
ARIUS THE LIBYAN:AN IDYL OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH. A new edition in new style, at a reduced price. 12mo, cloth. $1.25.
"Arius the Libyan" is a stirring and vivid picture of the Christian Church in the latter part of the third and beginning of the fourth century. It is an admirable companion volume to General Wallace's "Ben Hur."
"Portrays the life and character of the primitive Christians with great force and vividness of imagination."--Harper's Magazine.
RED SPIDER. A NOVEL. 12mo, paper. 60 cents.
"A well-told and neatly-contrived story, with several excellent figures exhibiting broad traits of human character with vivacity and distinctness."--London Athenæum.
LITTLE TU'PENNY. A TALE. 12mo, paper. 25 cents.
This charming novelette is reprinted by arrangement from theLondon Graphic, appearing here in advance of its completion in London.
GABRIELLE ANDRE. 8vo, paper. 60 cents.
THE SILENCE OF DEAN MAITLAND. A NOVEL. ByMaxwell Grey. 12mo, paper. 50 cents.
"The Silence of Dean Maitland" is by a new English author who gives promise in this striking story of a brilliant future. It is a novel of a high intellectual order, strong in plot and character.
A GAME OF CHANCE. A NOVEL. ByAnne Sheldon Coombs, author of "As Common Mortals." 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"A Game of Chance," by Mrs. Coombs, will, in its fresh and vigorous character drawing, and its fidelity to American life, fully justify the expectations awakened by her first novel, "As Common Mortals."
IN THE GOLDEN DAYS. A NOVEL. By Edna Lyall, author of "Donovan," "We Two," "Won by Waiting," "Knight-Errant." A new edition, uniform with the author's other books. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"'In the Golden Days' is an excellent novel of a kind we are always particularly glad to recommend. It has a good foundation of plot and incident, a thoroughly noble and wholesome motive, a hero who really acts and suffers heroically, and two very nice heroines. The historical background is very carefully indicated, but is never allowed to become more than background."--Guardian.
ARIUS THE LIBYAN; AN IDYL OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH.A new edition in new style, at a reduced price. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"Arius the Libyan" is a stirring and vivid picture of the Christian Church in the latter part of the third and beginning of the fourth century. It is an admirable companion volume to General Wallace's "Ben Hur."
A DATELESS BARGAIN. A NOVEL. ByC. L. Pirkis, author of "Judith Wynne," etc. 12mo. Paper cover, 30 cents.
"A clever and interesting novel."--London Literary World.
"Mrs. Pirkis has supplied fresh proof of her skill in turning out very good and workmanlike fiction."--Academy.
TEMPEST-DRIVEN. A ROMANCE. ByRichard Dowling. 12mo. Paper cover, 50 cents.
THE GREAT HESPER. A ROMANCE. By Frank Barrett. 12mo. Paper cover, 25 cents.
"Two of the scenes of this tale can lay claim to more power than anything of the kind that has yet been written."--London Post.
DICK'S WANDERING. A NOVEL. ByJulian Sturgis, author of "John Maidment," "An Accomplished Gentleman," etc.A new edition. 12mo. Paper cover, 50 cents; half bound, 75 cents.
MISS CHURCHILL: A STUDY. ByChristian Reid, author of "A Daughter of Bohemia," "Morton House," "Bonny Kate," etc., etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
The author calls "Miss Churchill"a study, for the reason that it consists so largely of a study of character; but there is no little variety of scene in the story, the action taking place partly in the South and partly in Europe, while the experiences and vicissitudes of the heroine are of great interest. The contrasts of place and character make it a very vivid picture.
THE MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES. A NOVEL. ByGeorge Manville Fenn, author of "Double Cunning," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; half bound, 75 cents.
"The interest in the plot is skillfully kept up to the end."--Academy.
"The story is very interesting."--Athenæum.
LIL LORIMER. A NOVEL. ByTheo Gift, author of "Pretty Miss Bellew," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; half bound, 15 cents.
Lil Lorimer, the heroine of this novel, is a character marked by many individual and fascinating qualities, and enlists the sympathies of the reader to an unusual degree. The action of the story takes place partly in South America, with an English family residing there, affording some fresh and striking pictures of life.
IN ONE TOWN. A NOVEL. ByEdmund Downey. 12mo. Paper, 25 cents.
"A story of unusual merit; by turns romantic, pathetic, and humorous."--Westminster Review.
A ZEALOT IN TULLE. A NOVEL. By Mrs.Wildrick. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
The scenes of "A Zealot in Tulle" are laid in Florida, the introductory part in Florida of seventy years ago; the main story in Florida of to-day. The plot turns mainly upon romantic incidents connected with a treasure buried in an old fort by the Spaniards at the time of their occupancy.
THE WITCHING TIME: TALES FOR THE YEAR'S END. ByF. Marion Crawford, W. E. Norris, Laurence Alma Tadema, Vernon Lee, Edmund Gosse, and others. Uniform with "The Broken Shaft." 12mo. Paper cover, 25 cents.
KATY OF CATOCTIN; or, The Chain-Breakers. A National Romance. ByGeo. Alfred Townsend, "Gath." 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
"Katy of Catoctin," now just published, is a stirring national romance, opening with the raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry and closing with the death of Lincoln. It is a picturesque and romantic story, partly historical and partly domestic, full of dramatic incidents, and marked by vivid delineations of character.
THE SILENCE OF DEAN MAITLAND. A Novel. ByMaxwell Grey. 12mo, paper, 50 cents.
"The Silence of Dean Maitland" is by a new English author who gives promise in this striking story of a brilliant future. It is a novel of a high intellectual order, strong in plot and character.
"Distinctly the novel of the year."--Academy.
"The work of a literary artist of great promise. It is a brilliantly written novel, but it is more than a novel. It is a work of exceptional dramatic power, and is both rich in melodramatic incident and spectacle, and has in it the essence of the noblest kind of tragedy.... It is full of thrilling incident, powerful description, and scenes of most moving pathos."--Scotsman.
LITTLE TU'PENNY. A Tale. ByS. Baring Gould. 12mo, paper. New Twenty-five Cent Series.
This charming novelette is reprinted by arrangement from theLondon Graphic, appearing here in advance of its completion in London.
DR. HEIDENHOFF'S PROCESS. A Tale. ByEdward Bellamy. New edition, 12mo, paper, 25 cents.
"It might have been written by Edgar Poe."--The London Spectator.
"Unlike any story we have seen, perfectly original and new."--London Daily News.
DEAR LIFE, A Novel. ByJ. E. Panton, author of "Jane Caldicott," "The Curate's Wife," etc. 12mo, paper cover, 25 cents.
"A good, strong story, well worked out, and told in straightforward fashion.... The fundamental idea of Mr. Panton's plot is novel."--London Saturday Review.
PEPITA XIMENEZ. A Novel. From the Spanish ofJuan Valera. With an introduction by the author written specially for this edition. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; half bound, 75 cents.
Señor Don Juan Valera, recently Spanish minister to our Government, is recognized as the most prominent literary man of the time in Spain. He is the author of some eight or ten novels, the most recent and successful of which is "Pepita Ximenez," which has appeared in eight editions in Spain, and been translated into German, French, Italian, and Bohemian. Nothing more charming has appeared in recent literature.
A POLITICIAN'S DAUGHTER. A Novel. ByMyra Sawyer Hamlin. 12mo. Half bound, 75 cents.
"A Politician's Daughter" is a bright, vivacious novel, based on a more than usual knowledge of American social and political life.
ALIETTE (La Morte). ByOctave Feuillet, author of "The Romance of a Poor Young Man," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; half bound, 75 cents.
"There is no sort of doubt that M. Octave Feuillet has produced a little book of immense power, in which the sketches of character are as vivid as if he had had no moral after-thought in his work."--London Spectator.
"Nobody can deny that M. Feuillet has made a very strong hit in 'La Morte.' ... Altogether the machinery of the novel is excellent and the interest admirably sustained."--London Saturday Review.
"The development of the characters is most skillful, and while the journal form into which the beginning and end are thrown Imposes special difficulties upon the author, there is no loss of power in these parts. Perhaps the most subtile thing in the book is the exposition, in the contrasted characters of Dr. Tallevaut and Sabine, of the two ways in which the modern scientific education may operate; and of the radical difference in the effect of such teaching upon one whose mind has been formed under religious influences and one whose growing intellect has been carefully guarded against all spiritual beliefs and doctrines. The figure of Aliette is the least strongly drawn, yet she is perfectly intelligible. Sabine is startling, and will no doubt be called unnatural, but it would be unreasonable to Bay that a girl with such a temperament, so educated, might not grow into such a woman."--New York Tribune.
"Merit of a most unusual kind."--London Athenæum.
THE DIARY OF A WOMAN. ByOctave Feuillet. 16mo. Paper, 25 cents; cloth, 60 cents.
WON BY WAITING. A Novel. ByEdna Lyall. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The Dean's daughters are perfectly real characters--the learned Cornelia especially; the little impulsive French heroine, who endures their cold hospitality and at last wins their affection, is thoroughly charming; while throughout the book there runs a golden thread of pure brotherly and sisterly love, which pleasantly reminds us that the making and marring of marriage is not, after all, the sum total of real life."--London Academy.
WE TWO. ByEdna Lyall. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Well written and full of interest. The story abounds with a good many light touches, and is certainly far from lacking in incident."--London Times.
"'We Two' contains many very exciting passages and a great deal of information. Miss Lyall is a capable writer of fiction, and also a clear-headed thinker."--From the Athenæum.
"We recommend all novel-readers to read this novel with the care which such a strong, uncommon, and thoughtful book demands and deserves."--From the Spectator.
DONOVAN; A MODERN ENGLISHMAN. ByEdna Lyall. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Distinctly a novel with a high aim successfully attained. The character-drawing is vigorous and truthful."--Pall Mall Gazette.
"This story is told with vigor and Intelligence, and throughout the book is well imagined and well written. It is a novel of sterling merit, being fresh and original In conception, thoroughly healthy in tone, interesting in detail, and sincere and capable in execution."--From the Academy.
THE ALIENS. A Novel. ByHenry F. Keenan, author of "Trajan," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"The Aliens "is a stirring, picturesque romance, depicting life and character in strong contrasts, and marked by an affluent and vivid style. The scene of the story is laid in the western part of the State of New York, about fifty years ago--the events coming down to the time of the Mexican War.
"He colors richly, warmly, and with the dash of an artist; ... and his characters grow, and are not manufactured; ... the freshest and most readable American novel of the season."--Philadelphia Bulletin.
"The prevailing merit of the story is the vivid sense of reality which the writer gives to scenes and characters; ... above all things, interesting."--Rochester Post-Express.
"Not second to 'Trajan' in character-painting, felicity of diction, well-managed conversations, pathos, and humor."--Journal of Commerce.
"Thoroughly interesting in plot, and told with equal skill and animation."--Boston Gazette.