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THE MODERN FICTION LIBRARY—Continued A Friend of Cæsar By WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

"As a story . . . there can be no question of its success. . . . While the beautiful love of Cornelia and Drusus lies at the sound, sweet heart of the story, to say so is to give a most meagre idea of the large sustained interest of the whole. . . . There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant, that they fix themselves in the memory." . . . in The Bookman.

Jim Hands By RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD

"A big, simple, leisurely moving chronicle of life. The one who relates it is Jim Hands, an Irish-American, patient, honest, shrewd, and as dependable as Gibraltar itself. . . . The 4 heady ' member of Jim's excellent family is the daughter Katherine, whose love affair with the boss's son, Robert, is tenderly and delicately imparted. ... A story study of character in many lights and shadows . . . touches of sublime self-sacrifice and telling pictures of mutual helpfulness and disinterested kindness. ... In its frequent digressions, in its shrewd observations of life, in its genuine humor and large outlook reveals a personality which commands the profoundest respect and admiration. Jim is a real man, sound and fine."—Daily News.

A Dark Lantern By ELIZABETH ROBINS

A powerful and striking novel, English in scene, which takes an essentially modern view of society and of certain dramatic situations. The "Dark Lantern" is a brusque, saturnine, strong-willed doctor, who makes wonderful cures, bullies his patients, and is hated and sought after. The book has the absorbing interest of a strong and moving story, varied in its scenes and characters, and sustained throughout on high spiritual, intellectual, and emotional planes. 5