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erbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884. Illustrated. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50. "Cullingworth,... a much more interesting creation than Sherlock Holmes, and I pray Dr. Doyle to give us more of him."--_Richard le Gallienne, in the London Star._ "Everyone who wants a hearty laugh must make acquaintance with Dr. James Cullingworth."--_Westminster Gazette._ "Everyone must read; for not to know Cullingworth should surely argue one's self to be unknown."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "One of the freshest figures to be met with in any recent fiction."--_London Daily News._ "'The Stark Munro Letters' is a bit of real literature.... Its reading will be an epoch-making event in many a life."--_Philadelphia Evening Telegraph._ "Positively magnetic, and written with that combined force and grace for which the author's style is known."--_Boston Budget._ SEVENTH EDITION. _ROUND THE RED LAMP._ Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. "Too much can not be said in praise of these strong productions, that, to read, keep one's heart leaping to the throat and the mind in a tumult of anticipation to the end.... No series of short stories in modern literature can approach them."--_Hartford Times._ "If Mr. A. Conan Doyle had not already placed himself in the front rank of living English writers by 'The Refugees,' and other of his larger stories, he would surely do so by these fifteen short tales."--_New York Mail and Express._ "A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._ _STONEPASTURES._ By ELEANOR STUART. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents. This graphic picture of quaint characters belongs to the class of specialized American fiction which has been headed by the work of Miss Wilkins, Mr. Cable, Colonel Johnston, Mr. Garland, and others. The author has studied the peculiar and almost unknown life of the laborers in a Pennsylvania mining and manufacturing town with a keenness of observation and an abundant sense of humor which will give her book a permanent place among the _genre_ studies of American life. _COURTSHIP BY COMMAND._ By M. M. BLAKE. 16mo. Cloth, 75 cents. An interesting historical romance presenting Napoleon in a
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