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dwellers in the deep as Thompson Seton found in the lives of the hunted ashore, and with the keenness and vigor which characterized his famous book "The Cruise of The Cachalot" he has made a book which, being based upon personal observation, buttressed by scientific facts and decorated by imagination, is a storehouse of information--an ideal romance of deep sea folk and, as _The Saturday Times-Review_ has said, worth a dozen novels. [Illustration: DENIZENS OF THE DEEP. FRANK T. BULLEN.] Not the least attractive feature of an unusually attractive volume is the series of illustrations by Livingston Bull and others. _By_ MARGARET SANGSTER _Cloth, each, $1.50_ _Janet Ward_ _Eleanor Lee_ Without exaggeration and with perfectly consistent naturalness Mrs. Sangster has produced two pieces of realism of a most healthy sort, demonstrating conclusively that novels may be at once clean and wholesome yet most thoroughly alive and natural. As with all her work, Mrs. Sangster exhibits her splendid skill and excellent taste, and succeeds in winning and holding her readers in these two books which treat of the life of today. "If ever there was an author whose personality shone through her work, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster is that author. Mrs. Sangster has written a novel with a moral purpose. That was to be expected, but it was also to be expected that the story would be free from hysteria and intolerance, filled with gentle humor, sane common sense and warm human sympathy, and saturated with cheerful optimism. The book fulfills the expectation."--_The Lamp._ [Illustration: JANET WARD BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.] _Essays_ _Fiction_ _By_ JAMES M. LUDLOW INCENTIVES FOR LIFE. Personal and Public. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25 net. "Dr. Ludlow shows versatility and rare culture in this book of essays. From the first page one is impressed with the beautifully clear style, the brilliant thought which flashes through every sentence, and the marvelous storehouse of illustration from which the author draws. The vital importance of will power in the formation of character, and the incentives which lie back of it as motives to action, are set forth with vigor and power."--_Christian Observer._ DEBORAH. A Tale of the Times of Judas Maccabaeus. By the
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