terest never lags; the
style is realistic and intense; and there is a constantly underlying
current of subtle humor.... It is, in short, a book which no student of
modern literature should fail to read."--_Boston Times._

_JOOST AVELINGH._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"So unmistakably good as to induce the hope that an acquaintance with
the Dutch literature of fiction may soon become more general among
us."--_London Morning Post._

"A novel of a very high type. At once strongly realistic and powerfully
idealistic."--_London Literary World._

"Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology and
suggestion."--_London Telegraph._

"Maarten Maartens is a capital story-teller."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"Our English writers of fiction will have to look to their
laurels."--_Birmingham Daily Post._

HANDY VOLUMES OF FICTION.

_PEOPLE AT PISGAH._ By EDWIN W. SANBORN.

"A most amusing extravaganza."--_The Critic._

_MR. FORTNER'S MARITAL CLAIMS, and Other Stories._ By RICHARD
MALCOLM JOHNSTON.

"When the last story is finished we feel, in imitation of Oliver Twist,
like asking for more."--_Public Opinion._

_GRAMERCY PARK._ A Story of New York. By JOHN SEYMOUR WOOD,
author of "An Old Beau," etc.

"A realistic story of New York life, vividly drawn, full of brilliant
sketches."--_Boston Advertiser._

_A TALE OF TWENTY-FIVE HOURS._ By BRANDER MATTHEWS and
GEORGE H. JESSOP.

"The reader finds himself in the midst of tragedy; but it is tragedy
ending in comedy. The story is exceptionally well told."--_Boston
Traveller._

_A LITTLE NORSK; or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen._ By HAMLIN GARLAND,
author of "Main Traveled Roads," etc.

"There is nothing in story-telling literature to excel the naturalness,
pathos, humor, and homelike interest with which the little heroine's
development is traced."--_Brooklyn Eagle._

_TOURMALIN'S TIME CHEQUES._ By F. ANSTEY, author of "Vice
Versa," "The Giant's Robe," etc.

"Each cheque is good for several laughs."--_New York Herald._

_FROM SHADOW TO SUNLIGHT._ By the MARQUIS OF LORNE.

"In these days of princely criticism--that is to say, criticism of
princes--it is refreshing to meet a really good bit of aristocratic
literary work, albeit the author is only a prince-in-law."--_Chicago
Tribune._

_ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM._ By KATE SANBORN.

"A sunny, pungent, humorous sketch."--_C