A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES.

Among the Freaks

By W.L. ALDEN.

Here is a volume of unique interest,
dealing as it does with the fortunes and
misfortunes of the various "freaks" to be
found in a Dime Museum. It relates the
woes of the original Wild Man of Borneo,
tells how the Fat Woman tried to elope, of
the marvelous mechanical tail the dwarf
invented, of how the Mermaid boiled her
tail, and of a thrilling plot hatched out by
the Giant and others. Full of telling
illustrations. Easily one of the best works
this gifted writer has ever produced.

18mo., Cloth.

Price, 75 cents.

STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_

A BOOK OF HEARTY LAUGHTER.

Things Generally

By MAX ADELER.

Here is a volume which is simply bubbling
over with dry wit and good-natured humor,
told as only this Prince of American
Humorists can tell it. Here are tales of
country newspaper life, political life,
trials of would-be inventors, hardships
of a book-agent, domestic fits and misfits,
perils of a ship-wrecked man, and a hundred
others, warranted to make even the most
sedate laugh. Full of illustrations just
as funny as the text.

18mo. Cloth.

Price, 75 cents.

STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_

"LAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR."

Toothsome Tales Told in Slang

By BILLY BURGUNDY.

A book of fascinating stories about
fascinating folks.

Pretty women before and behind the foot-lights,
artists and their models, literary men
of Bohemian tendencies, these are the
people whom Billy Burgundy has selected for
characterization. True, they speak their
lines in slang, but it is the slang of the
educated, and is always artistic while
delightfully amusing.

Pronounced by press and public one of the
funniest books ever published.

The illustrations are by Outcault,
Swinnerton, Marriner, Rigby, Pal, McAuley,
Lemon, Cobb and Bryans.

Copiously Illustrated.

Price, 75 cents.

STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_

EERIE TALES OF "CHINATOWN."

Bits of Broken China

By WILLIAM E.S. FALES

A collection of captivating novelettes dealing
with life in New York's "Chinatown."

The struggles and ambitions of the Chinaman
in America, his loves and jealousies,
his hopes and fears, his sorrows, his joys,
these are the materials on which Mr. Fales
has built his book.

It is a _new field_, and all the more
interesting on that account. The author has
made a life study of his subjec