N A DIKE SHANTY

Of the same general character as this author's "Tenting on Stony
Beach," but written with more vigor and compactness. Each of the
persons in this outing-sketch is strongly individualized, and an
effective little love story is interwoven. The author has a certain
hardness of tone which gives strength to her work.--_Atlantic Monthly_.

With a cover designed by Frank Hazenplug. 16mo. Cloth. 11.25.

HERBERT S. STONE & Co., CHICAGO & NEW YORK.

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By ELIA W. PEATTIE

PIPPINS AND CHEESE

A book of stories and conversations telling how a number of persons ate
a number of dinners at various times and places.

A group of stories which bear the marks of faithful care and polishing,
of deep feeling and an understanding of the heights and depths of the
soul, stories which must be a satisfaction to their author, are
included in the gray-and-green volume, with its quaint title, "Pippins
and Cheese," with the name of Mrs. Elia W. Peattie below.--_Chicago
Daily News_.

Mrs. Peattie proves without doubt her versatility and talent for
short-story-telling, and "Pippins and Cheese" is a good example of the
work of a Western writer Chicago is glad to claim.--_Chicago Evening
Post_.

With a cover designed by Frank Hazenplug. 16mo. Cloth. $1.25.

A MOUNTAIN WOMAN

The collection of brief stories of Western life which Mrs. Elia W.
Peattie put forth under the title of "A Mountain Woman" is decidedly
out of the ordinary. These tales are vigorous in conception, and are
gracefully and affectively told.--_New York Tribune_.

If anyone were to name the best quality of the Western school of
fiction, it would be a very fine sincerity untouched by cynicism;
faithfulness to reality, and yet a belief in the real human nature that
it finds. This is the best democracy. * * * Mrs. Peattie has done
some work very characteristic of her school, and yet individual. One
is impressed at the very outset with the honesty and vitality of her
observations.--_The Bookman_.

We wish to call most particular attention to a collection of short
Western stories by Mrs. Peattie, entitled "A Mountain Woman." The book
contains several of the best tales of Western life ever written. The
Nebraska stories throw so true a light upon recent conditions in the
sub-arid belt that they explain, better than any political speeches or
arguments could do, the reasons why men in that part of the count