awford's strong, vital,
forceful stories."--_Boston Herald._

An American Politician. The scenes are laid in Boston

"It need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and
picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual characters in
well-defined surroundings."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._

The Three Fates

"Mr. Crawford has manifestly brought his best qualities as a
student of human nature and his finest resources as a master of an
original and picturesque style to bear upon this story. Taken for
all in all, it is one of the most pleasing of all his productions
in fiction, and it affords a view of certain phases of American, or
perhaps we should say of New York, life that have not hitherto been
treated with anything like the same adequacy and
felicity."--_Boston Beacon._

Marion Darche

"Full enough of incident to have furnished material for three or
four stories.... A most interesting and engrossing book. Every page
unfolds new possibilities, and the incidents multiply
rapidly."--_Detroit Free Press._

"We are disposed to rank _Marion Darche_ as the best of Mr.
Crawford's American stories."--_The Literary World._

Katharine Lauderdale
The Ralstons. A Sequel to "Katharine Lauderdale"

"Mr. Crawford at his best is a great novelist, and in Katharine
Lauderdale we have him at his best."--_Boston Daily Advertiser._

"A most admirable novel, excellent in style, flashing with humor,
and full of the ripest and wisest reflections upon men and
women."--_The Westminster Gazette._

"It is the first time, we think, in American fiction that any such
breadth of view has shown itself in the study of our social
framework."--_Life._

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, 64-66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

Mr. F. MARION CRAWFORD'S

LATER NOVELS--THE SINGER TRILOGY

_Three novels, each an independent, interesting episode from the life of
Margaret Donne, the fascinating English girl who later became the most
famous lyric soprano of her day._

_Each, illustrated, $1.50_

Fair Margaret

tells of its heroine's student days, of the conflicting claims of
lovers and a career; of a retired opera singer in Paris whose
portrait alone makes the book one to be treasured by those who
know; and, in brief, of a girl's first glimpse of the