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right view of the story-writer's function and the wholesale
view of what the art of fiction can rightfully
attempt.--_Independent_, N. Y.

"HELL FER SARTAIN," and Other Stories.

Mr. Fox has made a great success of his pictures of the rude
life and primitive passions of the people of the mountains of
West Virginia and Kentucky. His sketches are short but graphic;
he paints his scenes and his hill people in terse and simple
phrases and makes them genuinely picturesque, giving us
glimpses of life that are distinctively American.--_Detroit
Free Press_.

A CUMBERLAND VENDETTA, and Other Stories.

Illustrated.

These stories are tempestuously alive, and sweep the
heart-strings with a master-hand.--_Watchman_, Boston.

BY FRANK R. STOCKTON

THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS.

A Novel. Illustrated by A. B. FROST.

If there is a more droll or more delightful writer now living
than Mr. Frank R. Stockton we should be slow to make his
acquaintance, on the ground that the limit of safety might be
passed.... Mr. Stockton's humor asserts itself admirably, and
the story is altogether enjoyable.--_Independent_, N. Y.

The interest never flags, and there is nothing intermittent
about the sparkling humor.--_Philadelphia Press_.

THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS.

A Novel. Illustrated by PETER NEWELL.

The scene of Mr. Stockton's novel is laid in the twentieth
century, which is imagined as the culmination of our era of
science and invention. The main episodes are a journey to the
centre of the earth by means of a pit bored by an automatic
cartridge, and a journey to the North Pole beneath the ice of
the Polar Seas. These adventures Mr. Stockton describes with
such simplicity and conviction that the reader is apt to take
the story in all seriousness until he suddenly runs into some
gigantic pleasantry of the kind that was unknown before Mr.
Stockton began writing, and realizes that the novel is a grave
and elaborate bit of fooling, based upon the scientific fads of
the day. The book is richly illustrated by Peter Newell, the
one artist of modern times who is suited to interpret Mr.
Stockton's characters and situations.

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