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New York maiden, beyond dreams beautiful--both known as the Silver Butterfly. Well named is _The Silver Butterfly_! There could not be a better symbol of the darting swiftness, the eager love plot, the elusive mystery and the flashing wit. BEATRIX OF CLARE, By John Reed Scott With illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood. A spirited and irresistibly attractive historical romance of the fifteenth century, boldly conceived and skilfully carried out. In the hero and heroine Mr. Scott has created a pair whose mingled emotions and alternating hopes and fears will find a welcome in many lovers of the present hour. Beatrix is a fascinating daughter of Eve. A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH, By Joseph Medill Patterson Frontispiece by Hazel Martyn Trudeau, and illustrations by Walter Dean Goldbeck. Tells the story of the idle rich, and is a vivid and truthful picture of society and stage life written by one who is himself a conspicuous member of the Western millionaire class. Full of grim satire, caustic wit and flashing epigrams. "Is sensational to a degree in its theme, daring in its treatment, lashing society as it was never scourged before."--_New York Sun_. GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers,--NEW YORK * * * * * FAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKS IN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONS Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size. Printed on excellent paper--most of them with illustrations of marked beauty--and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume, postpaid. THE FAIR GOD; OR, THE LAST OF THE TZINS. By Lew Wallace. With illustrations by Eric Pape. "The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and it is worked out with all of Wallace's skill * * * it gives a fine picture of the heroism of the Spanish conquerors and of the culture and nobility of the Aztecs."--_New York Commercial Advertiser_. "_Ben Hur_ sold enormously, but _The Fair God_ was the best of the General's stories--a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat of Montezuma by Cortes."--_Athenaeum_. THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy. A story of love and the salt sea--of a helpless ship whirled into the hands of cannibal Fuegians--of desperate fighting and tender romance, enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who describes with his wonted felicity and power of holding the reader's attention * * * filled with the swing of adventure. A MIDNIGHT GUEST. A Detective S
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