_By Edwin Lefèvre_
It would be difficult to find a better setting for a good story than
this hotbed of speculation. On the Exchange, every day is a day of
excitement, replete with dangerous risks, narrow escapes, victories,
defeats. There are rascals, “Napoleonic” rascals, and the “lambs” who
are shorn; there is the old fight between right and wrong, and sometimes
the right wins, and sometimes—as the world goes—the wrong. In the
maddening whirl of this life, which he knows so well, Edwin Lefèvre has
laid the setting of his Wall Street stories. A number of them have
already appeared in _McClure’s Magazine_, and their well-merited success
is the cause of publication in book form of this absorbing collection.
(12mo, $1.25.)