There is no more faithful portrayal of New England life than that
which Mrs. Stowe gives in "The Pearl of Orr's Island."

BURT'S SERIES _of_ STANDARD FICTION.

THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER. A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio
Valley. By Zane Grey. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson
Davis. Price, $1.00.

A book rather out of the ordinary is this "Spirit of the Border."
The main thread of the story has to do with the work of the
Moravian missionaries in the Ohio Valley. Incidentally the reader
is given details of the frontier life of those hardy pioneers who
broke the wilderness for the planting of this great nation. Chief
among these, as a matter of course, is Lewis Wetzel, one of the
most peculiar, and at the same time the most admirable of all the
brave men who spent their lives battling with the savage foe, that
others might dwell in comparative security.

Details of the establishment and destruction of the Moravian
"Village of Peace" are given at some length, and with minute
description. The efforts to Christianize the Indians are described
as they never have been before, and the author has depicted the
characters of the leaders of the several Indian tribes with great
care, which of itself will be of interest to the student.

By no means least among the charms of the story are the vivid
word-pictures of the thrilling adventures, and the intense
paintings of the beauties of nature, as seen in the almost unbroken
forests.

It is the spirit of the frontier which is described, and one can by
it, perhaps, the better understand why men, and women, too,
willingly braved every privation and danger that the westward
progress of the star of empire might be the more certain and rapid.
A love story, simple and tender, runs through the book.

CAPTAIN BRAND, OF THE SCHOONER CENTIPEDE. By Lieut. Henry A. Wise,
U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson
Davis. Price, $1.00.

The re-publication of this story will please those lovers of sea
yarns who delight in so much of the salty flavor of the ocean as
can come through the medium of a printed page, for never has a
story of the sea and those "who go down in ships" been written by
one more familiar with the scenes depicted.

The one book of this gifted author whi