An artistic and vivid picture of New England village life.
_Thomas Nelson Page._
IN OLE VIRGINIA--Marse Chan and Other Stories. (12mo, $1.25)--ON
NEWFOUND RIVER. (12mo, $1.00)--ELSKET, and Other Stories. (12mo,
$1.00.)
"In 'On Newfound River,' the rich promise of Mr. Page's rarely
beautiful short stories has been fulfilled."--_Richmond Despatch._
_Saxe Holm's Stories._
FIRST SERIES.--Draxy Miller's Dowry--The Elder's Wife--Whose Wife Was
She?--The One-Legged Dancers--How One Woman Kept Her Husband--Esther
Wynn's Love Letters.
SECOND SERIES.--Four-Leaved Clover--Farmer Bassett's Romance--My
Tourmalene--Joe Hale's Red Stocking--Susan Lawton's Escape.
_Each, 12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00._
"Saxe Holm's' characters are strongly drawn, and she goes right to
the heart of human experience as one who knows the way. We heartily
commend them as vigorous, wholesome, and sufficiently exciting
stories."--_The Advance._
_Robert Louis Stevenson._
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. (12mo, paper, 25 cts.; cloth,
$1.00)--KIDNAPPED. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00, illustrated,
$1.25)--THE MERRY MEN, and Other Tales and Fables. (12mo, paper, 35
cts.; cloth, $1.00)--NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS. (12mo, paper, 30 cts.; cloth,
$1.00)--THE DYNAMITER. With Mrs. Stevenson (12mo, paper, 30 cts.;
cloth, $1.00)--THE BLACK ARROW. Illustrated (12mo, paper, 50 cts.;
cloth, $1.00)--THE WRONG BOX. With Lloyd Osbourne (12mo, paper, 50
cts.; cloth, $1.00)--THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE. A Winter's Tale. (12mo,
paper, 50 cts.; cloth, illustrated, $1.25)--THE WRECKER. With Lloyd
Osbourne. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, illustrated. _In Press._)
"Stevenson belongs to the romantic school of fiction writers. He
is original in style, charming, fascinating, and delicious, with a
marvelous command of words, and with a manner ever delightful and
magnetic."--_Boston Transcript._
_T. R. Sullivan._
DAY AND NIGHT STORIES. (12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.)--ROSES OF
SHADOW. (12mo, $1.00.)
"Mr. Sullivan's style is at once easy and refined, conveying most
happily that atmosphere of good breeding and polite society which
is indispensable to the novel of manners, but which so many of them
lamentably fail of."--_The Nation._
_Frederick J. Stimson_ (_J. S., of Dale._)
GUERNDALE. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)--THE CRIME OF HENRY
VANE. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00)--THE SENTIMENTAL CALENDAR.
Head Pieces by F. G. Attwood (12mo, $2.00)--FIRST HARVESTS. An Episode
in the Career of Mrs. Levison Gower, a Satire without a Moral (12mo,
$1.25)--THE RESIDUARY LEGATEE; or, The Posthumous Jest of the Late
John Austin. (12mo, paper, 35 cts.; cloth, $1.00.)
"No young novelist in this country seems better equipped than
Mr. Stimson is. He shows unusual gifts in this and in his other
stories."--_The Philadelphia Bulletin._
_Frank R. Stockton._
RUDDER GRANGE. (12mo, paper, 60 cts.; cloth, $1.25; illustrated by
A. B. Frost, Sq. 12mo, $2.00)--THE LATE MRS. NULL. (12mo, paper, 50
cts.; cloth, $1.25)--THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? and Other Stories. (12mo,
paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)--THE CHRISTMAS WRECK, and Other Stories.
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Fanciful Tales. (12mo, cloth, $1.25)--AMOS KILBRIGHT, with Other
Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)--THE RUDDER GRANGERS
ABROAD, and Other Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25.)
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are an unmixed blessing and delight? He is surely one of the most
inventive of talents, discovering not only a new kind in humor and
fancy, but accumulating an inexhaustible wealth of details in each
fresh achievement, the least of which would be riches from another
hand."--W. D. HOWELLS, _in Harper's Magazine_.
_Stories by American Authors._
_Cloth, 16mo, 50c. each; set, 10 vols., $5.00; cabinet ed., in sets
only, $7.50._
"The public ought to appreciate the value of this series, which is
preserving permanently in American literature short stories that
have contributed to its advancement. American writers lead all
others in this form of fiction, and their best work appears in these
volumes."--_The Boston Globe._
_John T. Wheelwright._