iscussions which in a book
intended for general reading would tire without enlightening.

[Illustration: Image found at Santo Domingo.]

"Though disclaiming original investigation beyond the careful use
of the leading authorities, Mrs. Seelye has been at much pains
not to give the reader the discredited myths used by the old
school of biographers. It is a poor service to relate as history
an interesting story that is not true, or to lift an historical
figure into a heroism far from his real character. To give the
facts as we know them, and to show Columbus as he really was, has
been the sincere endeavor of the writer of this book. The story
is wonderful enough without the embellishment of fiction; the man
is interesting enough when painted in his real colors."--_From
the Introduction, by Edward Eggleston._

[Illustration: Brer Rabbit Preaches.]

_ON THE PLANTATION._

By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, author of "Uncle Remus." With 23 Illustrations
by E. W. KEMBLE, and Portrait of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

The most personal and in some respects the most important work which Mr.
Harris has published since "Uncle Remus." Many will read between the
lines and see the autobiography of the author. In addition to the
stirring incidents which appear in the story, the author presents a
graphic picture of certain phases of Southern life which have not
appeared in his books before. There are also new examples of the
folk-lore of the negroes, which became classic when presented to the
public in the pages of "Uncle Remus."

"The book is in the characteristic vein which has made the author
so famous and popular as an interpreter of plantation
character."--_Rochester Union and Advertiser._

"Those who never tire of Uncle Remus and his stories--with whom
we would be accounted--will delight in Joe Maxwell and his
exploits."--_London Saturday Review._

"Altogether a most charming book."--_Chicago Times._

"Really a valuable, if modest, contribution to the history of the
civil war within the Confederate lines, particularly on the eve
of the catastrophe. While Mr. Harris, in his preface, professes
to have lost the power to distinguish between what is true and
what is imaginative in his episodical narrative, the reader
readily finds the clew. Two or three new animal fables are
introduced with effe