e. But what do you say, Doc, to a world where we
fellows keep fuming and fizzing away, with our little aims and purposes,
and the great ball of life seems to roll calmly along, and get where
it's going without the slightest reference to what we do or don't do? I
suppose it's wicked to be a fatalist, but I'll go a few aeons of eternal
punishment more, and keep my private opinion that it's all Fate."

"Why not call it Law?" the doctor suggested.

"Well, I don't like to be too bold. But taking it by and large, and
seeing that most things seem to turn out pretty well in the end, I'll
split the difference with you and call it Mercy."

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS'S NOVELS.

THE QUALITY OF MERCY.

AN IMPERATIVE DUTY.

A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES.

THE SHADOW OF A DREAM.

ANNIE KILBURN.

APRIL HOPES.

BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

AS WE WERE SAYING.

With Portrait, and Illustrated by H.W. MCVICKAR and Others.

So dainty and delightsome a little book may it be everybody's good hap
to possess.--_Evangelist_, N. Y.

OUR ITALY.

In this book are a little history, a little property, a few fascinating
statistics, many interesting facts, much practical suggestion, and
abundant humor and charm--_Evangelist_, N. Y.

A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD.

A Novel.

The vigor and vividness of the tale and its sustained interest are not
its only or its chief merits. It is a study of American life of to-day,
possessed with shrewd insight and fidelity.--GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.

A powerful picture of that phase of modern life in which unscrupulously
acquired capital is the chief agent.--_Boston Post._

STUDIES IN THE SOUTH AND WEST, with Comments on Canada.

Perhaps the most accurate and graphic account of these portions of the
country that has appeared, taken all in all.... A book most charming--a
book that no American can fail to enjoy, appreciate, and highly
prize.--_Boston Traveller._

THEIR PILGRIMAGE.

Mr. Warner's pen-pictures of the characters typical of each resort, of
the manner of life followed at each, of the humor and absurdities
peculiar to Saratoga, or Newport, or Bar Harbor, as the case may be, are
as good-natured as they are clever. The satire, when there is any, is of
the mildest, and the general tone is that of one glad to look on the
brightest side of the cheerful, pleasure-seeking world with which he
mingles.--_Christian Union_, N. Y.

BY CONSTANCE F. WOOLSON.

JUPITER LIGHTS.