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BY GEORGE DU MAURIER
TRILBY. A Novel. Illustrated by the Author. Post
8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 75.
It is a charming story told with exquisite grace
and tenderness. — N. Y. Tribune.
"Trilby" is the best fiction of the older school
that the magazines have permitted the public to enjoy
for a long while. — N. Y. Evening Post.
Proves Du Maurier to have as great power as George
Meredith in describing the anomalies and romances of
modern English life; while his style is far more clear
and simple, and his gift of illustration adds what few
authors can afford. Thackerey had this artistic skill
in some degree, but not to compare with Du
Maurier. — Springfield Republican.
"Trilby" is so
thoroughly human, so free from morbidness and the
disposition to touch the unclean thing that it atones
for a multitude of sins in contemporaneous fiction....
In giving this wholesome, fascinating history to the
world the artist-author has done a favor to novel
readers which they cannot well repay nor fitly
express. — Indianapolis Journal.
PETER IBBETSON.
With an Introduction by his
Cousin, Lady * * * * * ( "Madge Plunket"). Edited and
illustrated by GEORGE DU MAURIER. Post 8vo,
Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50.
Mr. Du Maurier deserves the gratitude of all who
come across his book, both for the pleasant and tender
fancies in which it abounds and for its fourscore
dainty sketches. — Atheneum, London.
There are no suggestions of mediocrity. The pathos
is true, the irony delicate, the satire severe when
its subject is unworthy, the comedy sparkling, and the
tragedy, as we have said, inevitable. One or two more
such books, and the fame of the artist would be dim
beside that of the novelist. — N. Y. Evening Post.
The personal chalacterization is particularly
strong, the pictures of Paris are wonderfully graphic,
and the tale will induce many of its readers to attempt
Du Maurier's receipt for "dreaming true." —
Philadelphia Ledger.
Novelty of subject and of
treatment, literary interest, pictorial skill — the
reader must be fastidious whom none of these can
allure. — Chicago Tribune.
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ESSAYS IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE. Post 8vo, Cloth,
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THE PRIVATE LIFE. Three Stories: "The Private Life,"
"Lord Beaupré," " The Visits." 16mo, Cloth,
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THE WHEEL OF TIME. Three Stories: "The Wheel of Time,"
" Collaboration," " Owen Wingrave." 16mo, Cloth,
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PICTURE AND TEXT. With Portraits and Illustrations.
16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00. ("Harper's American
Essayists.")
WASHINGTON SQUARE. A Novel. Illustrated by GEORGE DU
MAURIER. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25; Paper, 50
cents.
THEATRICALS. Two Comedies: "Tenants" — "Disengaged."
Crown 8vo, Cloth, $1 75.
THEATRICALS. Two Comedies: "The Album " — "The
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R. D. BLACKMORE'S NOVELS.
PERLYCROSS. A Novel. 12mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 75.
Told with delicate and delightful art. Its pictures
of rural English scenes and characters will woo and
solace the reader.... It is charming company in
charming surroundings. Its pathos, its humor and its
array of natural incidents are all satisfying. One
must feel thankful for so finished and exquisite a
story.... Not often do we find a more impressive piece
of work. — N. Y. Sun.
A new novel from the pen of R. D. Blackmore is as
great a treat to the fastidious and discriminating
novel-reader as a new and rare dish is to an
epicure.... A story to be lingered over with
delight. — Boston Beacon.
SPRINGHAVEN. Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1 50; 4to,
Paper, 25 cents.
LORNA DOONE. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 00; 8vo,
Paper, 40 cents.
KIT AND KITTY. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25; Paper, 35 cents.
CHRISTOWELL. 4to, Paper, 20 cents.
CRADOCK NOWELL. 8vo, Paper, 60 cents.
EREMA; OR, MY FATHER'S SIN. 8vo, Paper, 50 cents.
MARY ANERLEY. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00; 4to, Paper, 15 cents.
TOMMY UPMORE. 16mo, Cloth, 50 cents; Paper, 35 cents;
4to, Paper, 20 cents.
His descriptions are wonderfully vivid and natural.
His pages are brightened everywhere with great
humor; the quaint, dry turns of thought remind you
occasionally of Fielding. — London Times.
His tales, all of them, are pre-eminently
meritorious. They are remarkable for their careful
elaboration, the conscientious finish of their
workmanship, their affluence of striking dramatic and
narrative incident, their close observation and general
interpretation of nature, their profusion of
picturesque description, and their quiet and sustained
humor. — Christian Intelligencer, N. Y.
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BY MARY E. WILKINS.
PEMBROKE. A Novel. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth,
Ornamental, $1 50.
JANE FIELD. A Novel. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth,
Ornamental, $1 25.
YOUNG LUCRETIA, and Other Stories. Illustrated.
Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25.
A NEW ENGLAND NUN, and Other Stories. 16mo,
Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25.
A HUMBLE ROMANCE, and Other Stories. 16mo,
Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25.
GILES COREY, YEOMAN. Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth,
Ornamental, 50 cents.
We have long admired Miss Wilkins as one of the
most powerful, original, and profound writers of
America; but we are bound to say that "Pembroke" is
entitled to a higher distinction than the critics have
awarded to Miss Wilkins's earlier productions. As a
picture of New England life and character, as a story
of such surpassing interest that he who begins is
compelled to finish it, as a work of art without a
fault or a deficiency, we cannot see how it could
possibly be improved — N. Y. Sun.
The simplicity, purity, and quaintness of these
stories set them apart in a niche of distinction where
they have no rivals. — Literary World, Boston.
Nowhere are there to be found such faithful,
delicately drawn, sympathetic, tenderly humorous
pictures. — N. Y. Tribune.
The charm of Miss Wilkins's stories is in her
intimate acquaintance and comprehension of humble life,
and the sweet human interest she feels and makes her
readers partake of, in the simple, common, homely
people she draws. — Springfield Republican.
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BY CONSTANCE F. WOOLSON
HORACE CHASE. 16mo, Cloth, $1 25.
JUPITER LIGHTS. 16mo, Cloth, $1 25.
EAST ANGELS. 16mo, Cloth, $1 25.
ANNE. Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, $1 25.
FOR THE MAJOR. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
CASTLE NOWHERE. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
RODMAN THE KEEPER. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
There is a certain bright cheerfulness in Miss
Woolson's writing which invests all her characters with
lovable qualities. Jewish Advocate, N. Y.
Miss Woolson is among our few successful writers of
interesting magazine stories, and her skill and power
are perceptible in the delineation of her heroines no
less than in the suggestive pictures of local life. —
Jewish Messenger, N. Y
Constance Fenimore Woolson may easily become the
novelist laureate — Boston Globe.
Miss Woolson has a graceful fancy, a ready wit, a
polished style, and conspicuous dramatic power; while
her skill in the development of a story is very
remarkable. — London Life .
Miss Woolson never once follows the beaten track of
the orthodox novelist, but strikes a new and richly-
loaded vein which, so far, is all her own; and thus we
feel, on reading one of her works, a fresh sensation,
and we put down the book with a sigh to think our
pleasant task of reading it is finished. The author's
lines must have fallen to her in very pleasant places;
or she has, perhaps, within herself the wealth of
womanly love and tenderness she pours so freely into
all she writes. Such books as hers do much to elevate
the moral tone of the day — a quality sadly wanting in
novels of the time. — Whitehall Review, London.
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THE ODD NUMBER SERIES.
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PARISIAN POINTS OF VIEW. Nine Tales by LUDOVIC HALÉVY.
Translated by EDITH V. B. MATTHEWS. With Portrait. $1 00.
DAME CARE. By HERMANN SUDERMANN. Translated by BERTHA
OVERBECK. $1 00.
TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES. By ALEXANDER KIELLAND.
Translated by WILLIAM ARCHER. With Portrait. $1 00.
TEN TALES BY FRANÇOIS COPPÉE. Translated by WALTER
LEARNED. With Portrait and 50 Illustrations by A. E.
STERNER. $1 25.
MODERN GHOSTS. Selected and Translated from the Works
of GUY DE MAUPASSANT, PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN,
ALEXANDER KIELLAND, and others. $1 00.
THE HOUSE BY THE MEDLAR-TREE. By GIOVANNI VERGA.
Translated from the Italian by MARY A. CRAIG. $1 00.
PASTELS IN PROSE. Translated by STUART MERRILL. 150
Illustrations by H. W. MCVICKAR. $1 25.
MARÍA: A South American Romance. By JORGE ISAACS.
Translated by ROLLO OGDEN. $1 00.
THE ODD NUMBER. Thirteen tales by GUY DE MAUPASSANT.
The Translation by JONATHAN STURGES. $1 00.
Other volumes to follow.
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BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
THE EXILES, AND OTHER STORIES. Illustrated.
Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50.
These varying but uniformly characteristic tales
show the travelled man, they show the observing man,
and they show the natural and well-trained
story-teller; but the principal value of them lies not
so much in any of these things as in the evidence the
stories bear to a thoughtful mind, alert for
impressions, but never content to receive
impressions without trying to analyze causes. —
Interior, Chicago.
OUR ENGLISH COUSINS. Illustrated. Post 8vo,
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Admirable examples of genuine observation recorded
with the light and quick, yet firm, clear touch of a
literary artist in whom the good-humor and the
enthusiasm of healthy American youth are still
undimmed. — Philadelphia Times.
THE RULERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25.
A very clever and entertaining book of travels . . . .
Mr. Davis has combined hlstory, geography, and
romance in such a way as to leave no dull or stupid
line or passage in his book. — San Francisco Chronicle.
THE WEST FROM A CAR-WINDOW. Illustrated by
FREDERIC REMINGTON. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental,
$1 25.
There is not a dull line in the book, and the
United States soldier, commissioned and enlisted, and
the American Indian alike, have cause to be grateful
for the fate that drew them into the line of vision of
such a delineator. His occasional chapters give a
truer view of both classes than half a dozen
"military" romances. — Nation, N. Y.
VAN BIBBER, AND OTHERS. Illustrated. Post 8vo,
Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00; Paper, 60 cents.
Mr. Davis is one of a considerable group of
Americans who throw off short stories so full of life
and significance that they often seem to tell us more
of the social conditions they describe, within ten or
twelve pages, than our own novelists can compress into
a volume. — Spectator, London.
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BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
THE COAST OF BOHEMIA. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
THE WORLD OF CHANCE. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50; Paper, 60
cents.
THE QUALITY OF MERCY. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50; Paper, 75
cents.
AN IMPERATIVE DUTY. 12mo, Cloth, $1 00; Paper, 5O
cents.
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES. Two Volumes. 12mo, Cloth, $2 00;
Illustrated, 12mo, Paper, $1 00.
THE SHADOW OF A DREAM. 12mo, Cloth, $1 00; Paper, 5O
cents.
ANNIE KILBURN. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50; Paper, 75 cents.
APRIL HOPES. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50; Paper, 75 cents.
CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY, AND OTHER STORlES. Illustrated.
Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 25.
A BOY'S TOWN. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 25.
CRITICISM AND FICTION. With Portrait. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
MODERN ITALLAN POETS. With Portraits. 12mo, Half Cloth,
$2 00.
THE MOUSE-TRAP, AND OTHER FARCES. Illustrated. 12mo,
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FARCES: A LIKELY STORY — THE MOUSE-TRAP — FIVE O'CLOCK
TEA — EVENING DRESS — THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS — A LETTER OF
INTRODUCTION — THE ALBANY DEPOT — THE GARROTERS.
Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each.
A LITTLE SWISS SOJOURN. Ill'd. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents.
MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. Ill'd. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents.
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