riter, and a mastery of style and effect which are really
uncommon."--_Milwaukee News._

"The characters are all well conceived, and the story is
pleasantly written." _Inter-Ocean._

GILES.--Bachelor Ben. A Novel; by Miss Ella A. Giles.

"A story of great descriptive and analytic mastery. * * A
master-piece of free and natural handling of human life, and
marks a new departure in fiction, in that the hero never
marries, and the author has attempted to group the sympathies
of readers about an unconventional man."--_Home Journal_ (New
York).

"The book is refreshingly guiltless of all superfluous
characters. The tone is good throughout. The moral
apparent."--_Chicago Times._

HALL.--Poems of the Farm and Fireside. By Eugene J. Hall.

"In vigor and pathos they are certainly equal--we should say
superior--to Carleton's Farm Ballads; in humor scarcely
inferior to the Biglow Papers."--_Interior._

"There is a nobility of mind even among the toilers of the land
too often overlooked, and for this reason we like the flavor of
these poems, because they smell of the field and forest, as
well as portray the inner life of society at the
fireside."--_Pittsburgh Commercial._

HEWITT.--"Our Bible." Three Lectures, delivered at Unity Church, Oak
Park, Ill., by Rev. J. O. M. Hewitt.

"This volume is rich in erudition and conspicuously clear in
the enunciation of the objections to the orthodox idea of an
inspiration which makes it infallible in all
particulars."--_Chicago Journal._

LAMARTINE.--Graziella; a Story of Italian Love. Translated from the
French of A. De Lamartine by James B. Runnion.

"'Graziella' is a poem in prose. The subject and the treatment
are both eminently poetic. * * * It glows with love of the
beautiful in all nature. * * * It is pure literature, a perfect
story, couched in perfect words. The sentences have the rhythm
and flow, the sweetness and tender fancy of the original. It is
uniform with 'Memories,' the fifth edition of which has just
been published, and it should stand side by side with that on
the shelves of every lover of pure, strong thoughts put in
pure, strong words. 'Graziella' is a book to be
loved."--_Tribune._

MASON.--Mae Madden. A Story; by Mrs. Mary Murdoch Mason, with an
introductory poem by Joaquin Mill