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Rh E. T. W. Hoffmann.

WEIRD TALES. With Portrait (12mo, 2vols., $3.00).

"Hoffmann knew how to construct a ghost story quite as skilfully as Poe, and with a good deal more sense of reality. All those who are in search of a genuine literary sensation, or who care for the marvelous and supernatural, will find these two volumes fascinating reading."—The Christian Union.

Dr. J. G. Holland.

SEVEN OAKS—THE BAY PATH—ARTHUR BONNICASTLE—MISS GILBERT'S CAREER—NICHOLAS MINTURN.

Each, 12mo, 1.25; the set, $6.25.

"Dr. Holland will always find a congenial audience in the homes of culture and refinement. He does not affect the play of the darker and fiercer passions, but delights in the sweet images that cluster around the domestic hearth. He cherishes a strong fellow-feeling with the pure and tranquil life in the modest social circles of the American people, and has thus won his way to the companionship of many friendly hearts."—The New York Tribune.

Thomas A. Janvier.

COLOR STUDIES. (12mo, $1.00.)

"Piquant, novel, and ingenious, these little stories, with all their simplicity, have excited a wide interest. The best of them, 'Jaune D'Antimoine,' is a little wonder in its dramatic effect, its ingenious construction."—The Critic.

Virginia W. Johnson.

THE FAINALLS OF TIPTON. (12mo, $1.25.)

"The plot is good, and in its working-out original. Character-drawing is Miss Johnson's recognized forte, and her pen-sketches of the inventor, the checker-playing clergyman and druggist, the rising young doctor, the sentimental painter, the rival grocers, etc., are quite up to her best work."—The Boston Commonwealth.

''Lieut. J. D. J. Kelley.''

A DESPERATE CHANCE. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.)

"This novel is of the good old-fashioned, exciting kind. Though it is a sea story, all the action is not on board ship. There is a well-developed mystery, and while it is in no sense sensational, readers may be assured that they will not be tired out by analytical descriptions, nor will they find a dull page from first to last."—The Brooklyn Union.

The King's Men:

A TALE OF TO-MORROW. By Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S., of Dale, and John T. Wheelwright. (12mo, $1.25.)