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FOUR NOVELS WORTH READING

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STRINGTOWN ON THE PIKE

BY JOHN URI LLOYD

12mo. Illustrated. $1.50

A Kentucky story whose scope is as wide as the country itself.
A book which none but an American could write.

THE MAID OF MAIDEN LANE

BY AMELIA E. BARR

12mo. Illustrated. $1.50.

The thousands who have read "_The Bow of Orange Ribbon_" will enjoy
a re-introduction to some old friends.

THE MASTER CHRISTIAN

BY MARIE CORELLI

12mo. Cloth. $1.50.

In this novel the author has surpassed all her former efforts.
The most widely discussed book of the day.

THE ISLE OF UNREST

BY HENRY SETON MERRIMAN

12mo. Illustrated. $1.50.

A thrilling story of Corsica and Southern France during the
Franco-Prussian war, having all the epigrammatic charm of "The
Sowers."

Dodd, Mead & Company, Publishers
New York

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Transcriber's note:

Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without note,
and hyphenation has been regularized. Spelling variants used
in dialect (except for the corrections noted below) have been
retained.

Spacing of contractions in dialect (e.g. he 'll, you 've,
there 's) has been retained and regularized. These were
printed as half-spaces in the original book. Spaces in two
part contractions (e.g. could n't, had n't, sha' n't) have
also been retained. However, ain't, 'ain't, don't, can't,
wa'n't, and won't were all consistently printed without
spaces, and appear that way in this e-book.

A few minor errors were corrected:

1. "colored" to "coloured" (p. 53:"coloured with ars'nic"--"ou"
spellings were used everywhere else in the original book
except the advertisements in the back.)

2. "skirk" to "shirk" (p. 146: "I ain't a-goin' to shirk it")

3. "jest deserts" to "jest desserts" (p. 190)

4. "afeard" to "afeared" (p. 243: "I 'm afeared I 'd 'a'
clean furgot")

One oe-ligature has been changed to oe (p. 58: "a young
homoeopathic doctor").

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