he
commanding general issued without the knowledge of the war department."

Then I saw the whole underpinning of the scheme, and my heart stumbled
and went groping about the four walls of its house. I tramped out of the
room and down the stairway to the big window at the first landing. I
stopped and leaned out over the walnut casement. El Mahdi stood as I had
left him, staring at the far-off wall of the Hills; and below me in the
garden old Liza stooped over her vines, not a day older, it seemed to
me, than when I galloped at her long apron-strings on Alhambra the Son
of the Wind.

THE END

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NEW FICTION

THE FOREST SCHOOLMASTER

By Peter Rosegger. Authorized translation by Frances E. Skinner.

This is the first English version of the popular Austrian novelist's
work, and no better choice from his writings could have been made
through which to introduce him to the American public. It is a strange,
sweet tale, this story of an isolated forest community civilized and
regenerated by the life of one man. The translator has caught the spirit
of the work, and Rosegger's virile style loses nothing in the
translation.

LOVE AND HONOUR

By M. E. Carr.

A thrilling story that carries the reader from the closing incidents of
the French Revolution, through various campaigns of the Napoleonic wars,
to the final scene on a family estate in Germany. The action of the plot
is well sustained, and the style might be described as vivid, while the
old battle between love and honor is fought out with such freshness of
treatment as to seem new.

DWELLERS IN THE HILLS

By Melville D. Post.

Mr. Post is to be congratulated upon having found a new field for
fiction. The scene of his latest story is laid amidst the hills of West
Virginia. Many of the exciting incidents are based upon actual
experience on the cattle ranges of the South. The story is original,
full of action, and strong, with a local color almost entirely new to
the reading public.

DUPES

By Ethel Watts Mumford.

A novel more thoroughly original than "Dupes," both in character and in
plot, has not appeared for some time. The "dupes" are society people,
who, like the Athenians, "spent their time in nothing else but either to
tell or to hear some new thing." Apart from its charm as a love story,
the book makes some clever hits at certain "new things." While this is
Mrs. Mumford's first book, she is well known