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"Ralph Connor is a Great 'Find" Miss Jeannette L. Gilder of " The Critic" says. THE SUCCESS OF 1899 Black Rock A TALE of the SELKIRKS London BLACK ROCK COMMENDATIONS "It has rarely been our good fortune to come across a book in which the freshest humor, the truest pathos, and the most exquisite tenderness are so fully displayed." "It is filled with humor, and pathos, and tenderness; full, too, of real breathing life, that proves the author to have shared the experiences of which he speaks." "The literary workmanship is of a high quality and betokens a strong ethical insight. . . is full of real humor and fresh pathos." FROM A MAN WHO HAS BEEN THERE The "I know mining camps. author has shifted Satan's throne of royal state' from Milton's hell to a mountain throne in the Rockies. "Would you see a battle with hella real battle-with modern angels and devils in flesh and blood contendinga battle in which the good angels win? Read Black Rock! 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The author is herself an American woman, who knows her Paris, and who has tried to take up, systematically but readably and entertainingly, the questions of living, of servants, of cabs, of churches and theatres, of shopping, of dressmakers, of sports, of prices, and a dozen other things, and to point out to her country. women just how they may everywhere have the best and pleasantest experience possible. The book will be fully illustrated, and will contain, as a kind of appendix, chapters on the Exposition and on "Fair" prices. SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, BOSTON. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Will Issue Shortly: Vol. IV. of HOW ENGLAND SAVED EUROPE THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR, 1793-1815 By W. H. FITCHETT, author of "Deeds That Won the Empire," "Fights for the Flag," etc. Now complete in 4 vols. Profusely illustrated. Crown 8vo, $2.00 per volume. VOL. I.-FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES TO EGYPT. 444 VOL. II. NELSON AND THE STRUGGLe for the SEA. VOL. IV.-WATERLOO AND ST. HELENA. (From the NEW YORK Tribune) 'How England Saved Europe' is a capital performance, calculated to thrill the most indifferent reader. . . . Mr. Fitchett is a teller of war tales pure and simple, and as such he has many virtues; he has color, picturesqueness, fervor, conciseness, and rapidity. There is not a dull page in these three volumes, and the fourth will, of course, be equally spirited and readable. With the index that we may expect in the concluding volume, and with the excellent illustrations provided for the work, it is beyond question that 'How England Saved Europe' will secure the wide circulation that it deserves." CHOPIN: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC By JAMES HUNEKER. With etched portrait. 12mo, $2.00. A brilliant work, by the author of "Mezzotints in Modern Music," portraying The Man with extraordinary vividness, and presenting an exhaustive, critical, and descriptive analysis of His Music with insight and authority. RED BLOOD AND BLUE By HARRISON ROBERTSON. 12m0, $1.50. 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One year, postage prepaid in the United States.... $3 00 Address P. O. Box 943, N. Y. Van Everen (P. F.) Wolff (H.).. ......... .... 4 00 PAGE 672 .......674, 675 666 672 679 672 677 LAIRD & LEE will issue shortly A Lord's Courtship," by Lee Meriwether; " "A Woman of Nerve," by Dr. N. T. Oliver, whose earlier book, An Unconscious Crime," sold phenomenally; and "A Violet Flame," by Fred T. Jane, a tale of modern upheaval, illustrated by the author. The eighth revised edition of Lee's "Guide to Paris and Everyday French Conversation" is ready with many novel features, among them German and Italian vocabularies for tourists. A new Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, by F. N. de Rivas, is also just ready, with list of leading cities in the Philippines and statistics of all the Spanish-speaking countries; also, a new edition of "The Practice of Palmistry for Professional Purposes." HARPER & BROTHERS have just ready "The Life of William H. Seward," by Frederic Bancroft, an exhaustive biography in two volumes of Lincoln's great Secretary of State; 672 The Story of the Boers," narrated by their 671 leaders, published under the authority of the South African Republics with special pa677 pers by Montagu White, recent Consul Gen672 eral of the Transvaal at London; C. W. Van der Hoogt, a personal friend of General Kruger, the text of official dispatches, proclamations, etc., and much interesting matter not heretofore published; "The Nicaragua Canal," by W. E. Simmons; and "The Rebel," a novel of the days of Charles II., by H. B. Marriott Watson. They have nearly ready Hiwa," by E. P. Dole, a romance of myth671 ological Hawaii, dealing with the story of the Goddess of the Island; also a new popular edition in three volumes of Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic," printed from the same plates used in the Library edition. 67 THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY has removed to 298 Broadway, between Reade and Duane Streets, where it is located on the sixth floor. The cars of the Metropolitan Street Railway system pass the door, and the east side "L" station at City Hall and the west side "L" station at Chambers Street and West Broadway are but a few blocks distant. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. publish next week a story of love and yellow fever entitled The Queen's Garden," by Mrs. M. E. M. Davis, author of "Under the Man-Fig"; Knights in Fustian," a story by Caroline Knights of the Golden Circle, who acted unBrown, based upon the performances of the der the inspiration of Mr. Vallandigham at the time of the civil war and made no little trouble, (but not nearly as much as they wished to make,) in Indiana and adjoining States; the Prose of Edward Rowland Sill which gathers into a tasteful little volume the best of his contributions to magazines on literary, educational and critical topics and also many of the uncommonly bright little short papers which he furnished to The Atlantic Monthly's Contributor's Club. In literary value this little volume is probably one of the best books that the spring season will bring. At the same time will appear a new, revised and enlarged edition of Judge Landon's exALBERT BRANDT, Trenton, N. J., will pub-cellent work on "The Constitutional History lish April 17, "A Short History of Monks NOTES IN SEASON. 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