PPEARANCE.= By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.
16mo, paper, 50 cents, cloth, $1.00.

"The plot is marked with striking originality, and
the story is narrated with a vigor and power
rarely met in modern novels. It is deeply
interesting from beginning to end, and holds the
reader entranced from the moment the first page is
read until the last sentence is reached. It is, in
fact, a revelation in American romance-writing,
and we heartily commend it to the
public."--_Baltimore Gazette._

"Catches the fancy and chains the interest of the
reader to such a degree that he is unwilling to
lay it down until every page is
devoured."--_Toledo Journal._

"The author has chosen a department of fiction
where only the best writers succeed, but she has
shown herself capable of sustaining her role with
wonderful vigor."--_Boston Evening Traveller._

"It is an ingenious plot, admirably worked up, and
told so straightforward as to be wholly
pleasing."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._

"One of the best police detective stories written
in America."--_Hartford Courant._

"Wilkie Collins would not be ashamed of the
construction of this story. * * * It keeps
the reader's close attention from first to
last."--_N. Y. Evening Post._

"A most ingenious and absorbingly interesting
story. The readers are held spell-bound till the
last page."--_Cincinnati Commercial._

"Ingenious in construction, powerful in dramatic
interest, and artistic in development."--_Boston
Gazette._

"A most intensely interesting work of fiction. The
story is developed with skill, and the work
written in a strong, powerful style."--_Augusta
(Me.) Farmer._

"The plot is new and sparkling, and the story is
carried to its denouement with an ingenuity and
brightness of manner that makes it impossible to
lay the volume down until completed. * * * It is a
marvel of fiction."--_Columbus Sunday Capital._

"The plot is very ingenious. * * * The interest in
the tale is remarkably well sustained until its
conclusion, and the mystery which envelopes t