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6 Andrew Lang.

THE MARK OF CAIN. (12mo, paper, 25 cts.; cloth, 75 cts.)

"No one can deny that it is crammed as full of incident as it will hold, or that the elaborate plot is worked out with most ingenious perspicuity."—The Saturday Review.

George P. Lathrop.

NEWPORT. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—AN ECHO OF PASSION. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—IN THE DISTANCE. (12mo paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.)

"It is one of the charms of Mr. Lathrop's style that it appeals to the imagination of the reader by a delicate suggestiveness, which lies like a fine atmosphere over the landscape of the story. His novels have the refinement of motive which characterize the analytical school, but his manner is far more direct and dramatic."—The Christian Union.

Brander Matthews.

THE SECRET OF THE SEA, and Other Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—THE LAST MEETING. (12mo, paper, 50 cts,; cloth $1.00)—IN PARTNERSHIP. With H. C. Bunner (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00).

"Mr. Matthews is a man of wide observation and of much familiarity with the world. His literary style is bright and crisp, with a peculiar sparkle about it—wit and humor judiciously mingled which—renders his pages more than ordinarily interesting."—The Rochester Post-Express.

Donald G. Mitchell.

DR. JOHNS. (12mo, $1.25.)

"The author finds scenes and characters enough in a single parish to furnish the staple of the book. There are capital descriptions of parish life, home scenes, love-making, hard cases, and saintly men and women, their ways, habits; in short, all the warp and woof going to make the texture of this isolated rural life. There are few writers in this country who have ever surpassed the author in the description of rural New England life."—The San Francisco Bulletin.

Fitz-James O'Brien.

THE DIAMOND LENS with Other Stories (12mo, paper, 50 cts; cloth $1.00)

"These stories are the only things in literature to be compared with Poe's works, and if they do not equal it in workmanship they certainly do not yield to it in originality."—The Philadelphia Record.