ah Mulock Craik's "John Halifax, Gentleman," is of rare merit.

C. E. Craddock's (pseudonym), "In the Tennessee Mountains" is
entertaining. A powerful story of mountain-life.

Of F. Marion Crawford's stories, among the best are "Mr. Isaacs" and
"A Roman Singer."

Alexander Dumas' "Count of Monte Christo" [Transcriber's note:
"Cristo"?] is a world-famous romance.

Of George Eliot, "Silas Marner" is the best of the short stories, and
"Romola" the best of the long. "Adam Bede" ranks barely second to
"Silas Marner."

Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" remains a classic among earlier English
novels.

Edward Everett Hale's "Man without a Country" will be read as long as
the American flag flies.

Hawthorne's "Mosses from an Old Manse" are stories of unique interest,
and "The Scarlet Letter" is known to all well-read people.

Of Rudyard Kipling, read "Kim," and "The Man Who Would be King."

Pierre Loti's "Iceland Fisherman" is translated by A. F. de Koven.
McClurg, $1.00.

S. Weir Mitchell's "Hugh Wynne" sold 125,000 copies.

Thomas Nelson Page's "Gordon Keith" sold 200,000 copies.

If you read only one of Walter Scott's novels, take "Ivanhoe," or "The
Talisman." Five more of those most read are likely to follow.

Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Quo Vadis" is most notable.

Robert L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island," and "Doctor Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde," and "The Merry Men and Other Tales," are fair examples of the
charm and insight of this author.

He who reads Frank Stockton's "Rudder Grange" is likely to read more of
this author's books.

Mrs. H. B. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is still one of the great
stories of the world.

Of Mark Twain, "Huckleberry Finn," "The Innocents Abroad," and the
"Story of Joan of Arc" are representative volumes.

Miss Warner's "Wide, Wide World" is unique in American fiction.

John Watson's "Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush," sold 200,000 copies in
America.

Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur" is the greatest of scriptural romances.

Thirty-eight books by twenty-eight authors. It would have been easier
to name a hundred authors and two hundred books.

I will add from "The Critic" a list whose sales have reached six
figures:--

_Books of Every-day Life_

"David Harum," by Westcott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727,000
"Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," by Alice Hegan Rice 345,000
"The Virginian," by Owen Wister . . . . . . . . . . . 250,000
"Lovey Mary," by Alice Hegan Rice . . . . .