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 A new and important series of some of the best popular novels which have been published in recent years.

These successful books are now made available at a popular price in response to the insistent demand for cheaper editions.

The authors include such well-known names as:

Each volume, Cloth, 12mo, 50 cents net; postage, 10 cents extra Burning Daylight By JACK LONDON "Burning Daylight" is just the kind of a story that Jack London loves to write the story of the struggles of a strong man in a world of strong men. Moreover, it is a story which he has written purely for the story's sake he does not preach anything in it. This fact will make it appeal to those who dislike to have their socialism, or whatever it may be, mixed up with their fiction. "Jack London," The Springfield Union writes, "has outdone himself in 'Burning Daylight.'" The book gets its title from the hero who is nicknamed "Burning Daylight" because it was his custom at the first intimation of daylight to rout out his companions for the day's work, so there would be no waste of the daylight hours, or in other words, no burning of daylight.

The Reign of Law A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields By JAMES LANE ALLEN "Mr. Allen has a style as original and almost as perfectly finished as Hawthorne's, and he has also Hawthorne's fondness for spiritual suggestions that make all his stories rich in the qualities that are lacking in so many novels of the period."—San Francisco Chronicle. 3