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 BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD, AUTHOR OF "MARCELLA," ETC.

THE STORY OF BESSIE COSTRELL

By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.

Uniform with "Marcella." 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth. 75 cents.

"It is the best work Mrs. Ward has done."—Philadelphia Press.

"Mrs. Ward's new story is one of the daintiest little gems I have come across in my weekly literary hunts."—Alan Dale in New York World.

"The piece of fiction under consideration is the best short story presented in many years, if not in a decade; presented so thrillingly and graphically, we cannot avoid pronouncing this short tale a masterpiece."—Elmira Telegram.

"Every one who did not follow the story as it came out in the magazine will be glad of its appearance in book form, and it will find a wide reading, not only for the interest and originality of the story, but for the curiosity of seeing the author in an entirely new vein. As it stands completed, it bears the unmistakable mark of an artist's hands, in every way a remarkably human and life-like portraiture, which will take its place as a small but brilliant gem in the distinguished author's literary crown."—Boston Courier.

"Every page shows it to be the work of an artist. The observations of the trained eye, the touches of the skilled writer, are all there, and what I like in the story is, that no words are wasted in the telling.... The interest is too strong for one to lay the book down until it is finished. Mrs. Ward has never written anything more dramatic than this story; the agony of old John over his loss, the tragedy of Bessie's end, thrill the reader as few stories succeed in doing, though many of them make greater efforts."—New York World.

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