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 CROWNED BY THE LONDON ACADEMY as one of the three most important books published during the year 1898

THE FOREST LOVERS

By MAURICE HEWLETT

Author of "Earth Works out of Tuscany," "Pan and the Young Shepherd" etc.

Cloth. 12mo. $1.50

JAMES LANE ALLEN says: "This work, for any one of several solid reasons, must be regarded as of very unusual interest. In the matter of style alone, it is an achievement, an extraordinary achievement ...; in the matter of interpreting nature there are passages in this book that I have never seen surpassed in prose fiction."

HAMILTON W. MABIE says: "The plot is boldly conceived and strongly sustained; the characters are vigorously drawn and are thrown into striking contrast.... It leads the reader far from the dusty highway; it is touched with the penetrating power of the imagination; it has human interest and idyllic loveliness."—Book Reviews. The New York Tribune says:

"A series of adventures as original as they are romantic.... 'The Forest Lovers' is a piece of ancient arras; a thing mysteriously beautiful, a book that is real and at the same time radiant in poetry and art. 'The Forest Lovers' will be read with admiration and preserved with something more than respect."

The Outlook calls it:

"A story compounded of many kinds of beauty. It has, to begin with, enchanting beauty of background; or rather, it moves through a beautiful world, the play of whose light upon it s subtle, beguiling, and magical."

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