where he now is.

The Sultan of Sulu who reigned then is dead, and if the gem belonged
to him it did not belong to his successor; for the friends of the
first ruler declared that the man who gained the throne after him was
a false claimant. Should I send it to the dead man's heirs? He had
no son, and one can hardly divide one pearl among four hundred widows.

Only Poljensio is left, and his claim, even if I could find him,
I fear would be counted hardly legal. Quite likely he would not take
it back, even if I found him; and sometimes, when I reflect upon what
would probably have happened to me if the bag of stolen pearls had
been found by any chance in my house, I am not sure that I should
feel like offering the gem to him.

A Great American Novel of the Civil War.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
A Tale of North and South.
BY MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS,
Author of _The Gray House of the Quarries_, etc.

12mo, doth, decorative, with six full-page illustrations by
H. T. Carpenter. $1.50

A really great American novel of the Civil War, which will appeal
with equal force to-day to the Southern as well as to the Northern
reader. The title is, of course, suggested by Mrs. Howe's line,--

"He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath
are stored."

The story is developed from the fortunes, amid the vicissitudes of war,
of an old New Jersey family, one son of which had settled in Virginia,
becoming a general in Lee's army. There is little fighting and no cheap
heroics in the book, but it gives a clearer picture and a more intimate
and impressive understanding of what the great struggle really meant
to Unionist and to Confederate alike than many a military history.

A Romance of the Iowa Wheat Fields.
THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY'S.
BY FRANK BURLINGAME HARRIS.

12mo, cloth, decorative. $1.50

A simple but powerful story of farm life in the great West, which
cannot fail to make a lasting impression on every reader. In this
book Mr. Harris has done for the wheat fields what Mr. Westcott has
done for rural New York and Mr. Bacheller for the North country. It
is in no way imitative of _David Harum_ or _Eben Holden_; and, unlike
each of these books, it is not in the portrayal of