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ord. Library 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top, 325 pages. $1.50 "I read 'Tom Ossington's Ghost' the other night, and was afraid to go up-stairs in the dark after it."--_Truth_. "An entrancing book, but people with weak nerves had better not read it at night."--_To-day_. "Mr. Marsh has been inspired by an entirely original idea, and has worked it out with great ingenuity. We like the weird but _not_ repulsive story better than anything he has ever done."--_World_. The Glory and Sorrow of Norwich. By M.M. BLAKE. Author of "The Blues and the Brigands," etc., etc., with twelve full-page illustrations. Library 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top, 315 pages. $1.50 The hero of this romance, Sir John de Reppes, is an actual personage, and throughout the characters and incidents are instinct with the spirit of the age, as related in the chronicles of Froissart. Its main claim for attention, however, is in the graphic representation of the age of chivalry which it gives, forming a series of brilliant and fascinating pictures of mediaeval England, its habits of thought and manner of life, which live in the mind for many a day after perusal, and assist to a clearer conception of what is one of the most charming and picturesque epochs of history. The Mistress of Maidenwood. By HULBERT FULLER. Author of "Vivian of Virginia," "God's Rebel," etc. Library 12mo, cloth decorative, 350 pages. $1.50 A stirring historical romance of the American Revolution, the scene of which for the most part being laid in and about the debatable ground in the vicinity of New York City. Dauntless. A TALE OF A LOST CAUSE. By CAPTAIN EWAN MARTIN. Author of "The Knight of King's Guard." Library 12mo, cloth decorative, 400 pages, illustrated. $1.50 A stirring romance of the days of Charles I. and Cromwell in England and Ireland. In its general character the book invites comparison with Scott's "Waverley." It well sustains the reputation gained by Captain Martin from "The Knight of King's Guard." The Flame Of Life. (IL FUOCO.) Translated from the Italian of Gabriel D'Annunzio, author of "Triumph of Death," etc., by KASSANDRA VIVARIA, author of "Via Lucis." Library 12mo, cloth decorative, 350 pages. $1.50 This is the first volume in the Third Trilogy, "The Romances of the Pomegranate," of the three announced by the great Italian writer. We were fortunat
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