_Each, 12mo, flexible cloth, with special design, 75 cents._
_THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE._ By GILBERT PARKER.
"To tell such a story convincingly a man must have what I call the
rarest of literary gifts--the power to condense. Of the good feeling and
healthy wisdom of this little tale others no doubt have spoken and will
speak. But I have chosen this technical quality for praise, because in
this I think Mr. Parker has made the furthest advance on his previous
work. Indeed, in workmanship he seems to be improving faster than any of
the younger novelists."--A. T. QUILLER-COUCH, _in the London
Spectator_.
_THE FAÏENCE VIOLIN._ By CHAMPFLEURY. Translated by W. H. BISHOP.
"The style is happy throughout, the humorous parts being well calculated
to bring smiles, while we can hardly restrain our tears when the poor
enthusiast goes to excesses that have a touch of pathos."--_Albany
Times-Union._
_TRUE RICHES._ By FRANÇOIS COPPÉE.
"Delicate as an apple blossom, with its limp cover of pale green and its
stalk of golden-rod, is this little volume containing two stories by
François Coppée. The tales are charmingly told, and their setting is an
artistic delight."--_Philadelphia Bulletin._
"The author scarcely had a thought of sermonizing his readers, but each
of these little stories presents a moral not easily overlooked, and
whose influence lingers with those who read them."--_Baltimore
American._
_A TRUTHFUL WOMAN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA._ By KATE SANBORN,
author of "Adopting an Abandoned Farm," etc.
"The veracious writer considers the _pros_ of the 'glorious climate' of
California, and then she gives the _cons_. Decidedly the ayes have
it.... The book is sprightly and amiably entertaining. The descriptions
have the true Sanborn touch of vitality and humor."--_Philadelphia
Ledger._
_A BORDER LEANDER._ By HOWARD SEELY, author of "A Nymph of the
West," etc.
"We confess to a great liking for the tale Mr. Seely tells.... There are
pecks of trouble ere the devoted lovers secure the tying of their
love-knot, and Mr. Seely describes them all with a Texan flavor that is
refreshing."--_New York Times._
"A swift, gay, dramatic little tale, which at once takes captive the
reader's sympathy and holds it without difficulty to the
end."--_Charleston News and Courier._
_MANY INVENTIONS._ By RUDYARD 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._
_A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS. A Romance of the Future._ By JOHN JACOB
ASTOR. With 9 full-page Illustrations by Dan Beard. 12mo. Cloth,
$1.50.
"An interesting and cleverly devised book.... No lack of imagination....
Shows a skillful and wide acquaintance with scientific facts."--_New
York Herald._
"The author speculates cleverly and daringly on the scientific advance
of the earth, and he revels in the physical luxuriance of Jupiter; but
he also lets his imagination travel through spiritual realms, and
evidently delights in mystic speculation quite as much as in scientific
investigation. If he is a follower of Jules Verne, he has not forgotten
also to study the philosophers."--_New York Tribune._
"A beautiful example of typographical art and the bookmaker's skill....
To appreciate the story one must read it."--_New York Commercial
Advertiser._
"The date of the events narrated in this book is supposed to be 2000
A. D. The inhabitants of North America have increased mightily in numbers
and power and knowledge. It is an age of marvelous scientific
attainments. Flying machines have long been in common use, and finally a
new power is discovered called 'apergy,' the reverse of gravitation, by
which people are able to fly off into space in any direction, and at
what speed they please."--_New York Sun._
"The scientific romance by John Jacob Astor is more than likely to
secure a distinct popular success, and achieve widespread vogue both as
an amusing and interesting story, and a thoughtful endeavor to prophesy
some of the triumphs which science is destined to win by the year 2000.
The book has been written with a purpose, and that a higher one than the
mere spinning of a highly imaginative yarn. Mr. Astor has been engaged
upon the book for over two years, and has brought to bear upon it a
great deal of hard work in the way of scientific research, of which he
has been very fond ever since he entered Harvard. It is admirably
illustrated by Dan Beard."--_Mail and Express._
"Mr. Astor has himself almost all the qualities imaginable for making
the science of astronomy popular. He knows the learned maps of the
astrologers. He knows the work of Copernicus. He has made calculations
and observations. He is enthusiastic, and the spectacular does not
frighten him."--_New York Times._
"The work will remind the reader very much of Jules Verne in its general
plan of using scientific facts and speculation as a skeleton on which to
hang the romantic adventures of the central figures, who have all the
daring ingenuity and luck of Mr. Verne's heroes. Mr. Astor uses history
to point out what in his opinion science may be expected to accomplish.
It is a romance with a purpose."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"The romance contains many new and striking developments of the
possibilities of science hereafter to be explored, but the volume is
intensely interesting, both as a product of imagination and an
illustration of the ingenious and original application of
science."--_Rochester Herald._