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By and the late.

STORIES OF MINE OWN PEOPLE,

'''12mo, cloth. $1.00.'''

In this volume the following stories are published for the first time:

No volume of his yet published gives a better illustration of his genius, and of the weird charm which have given his stories such deserved popularity.—Boston Daily Traveller.

Some of Mr. Kipling’s best work is in this volume. Mr. Kipling is a literary artist of the first rank, and everything in the way of short stories he has written thus far has proved itself to be well worth the reading.—Boston Beacon.

“The Light that Failed” is an organic whole,—a book with a backbone,—and stands out boldly among the nerveless, placid, invertebrate things called novels that enjoy an expensive but ephemeral existence in the circulating libraries.—Athenæum.