_THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS._ Being a Series of Twelve Letters written
by J. 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.
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of detective logic applied to the detection of crime, knows that Conan
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everything all there is in it.”--_Philadelphia Item._
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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
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field of which he is the master.
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“The reading of these choice stories will prove an exciting pleasure
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“A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern
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_PAUL AND VIRGINIA._ By BERNARDIN 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
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Paris,” and “Picciola.” No more sympathetic illustrator than Leloir
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_PICCIOLA._ By X. B. SAINTINE. With 130 Illustrations by J. F.
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_AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER IN PARIS; or, A Peep at the World from a
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numerous Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
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“It is a classic. It has found an appropriate reliquary. Faithfully
translated, charmingly illustrated by Jean Claude with full-page
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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.
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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._
_A FRIEND OF THE QUEEN._ (Marie Antoinette--Count de Fersen.) By PAUL
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._
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tired. Of no one is this so much the case as of the beautiful Marie
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been only vaguely known.”--_Philadelphia Press._
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the gilding of the pill of history.”--_London Daily News._
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his share in the celebrated flight to Varennes, and in many other well
known episodes of the unhappy Queen’s life.”--_London Times._
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_THE ROMANCE OF AN EMPRESS. Catharine II of Russia._ By K.
WALISZEWSKI. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
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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
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“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._ 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._
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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.