Hppletons' ZlDontblE bulletin. 



with the acquisition and occupation of 

 this new tropical possession of ours, 

 and to this end Mr. Ober has availed 

 himself of every opportunity of adding 

 to his stock of information acquired 

 during the past eighteen years. His 

 book is not a sketch for the casual 

 visitor, or impressions of a traveler in 

 search of the picturesque, but it is a 

 comprehensive, informing, and inter- 

 esting account of the people, land, and 

 products, with the full explanations ot 

 the actual conditions and opportunities 

 which are needed by visitors and in- 

 tending investors. The Hon. Henry 

 Cabot Lodge has written the author : 



" You have brought together in a small 

 space an immense amount of most valu- 

 able information, which it is very impor- 

 tant to have within the reach of the Amer- 

 ican people at this time." 



The new novel, Windykaugh, by 

 Graham Travers, author of " Mona 

 Maclean," is attracting much attention 

 both in this country and in England. 

 It is the story of a modern woman, but 

 a story which will be read by men and 

 women alike. The heroine "carved 

 no statue, painted no picture — she 

 did not even write a book ; but when 

 all these things have been excluded, 

 there remains that little art of living 

 which has been open in all ages alike 

 to the wise and the simple." Of this 

 novel " Blackwood's Magazine " has re- 

 cently said : 

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" ' Windyhaugh ' shows an infinitely 

 more mature skill and more subtle humor 

 than ' Mona Maclean ' and a profounder 

 insight into life. The psychology in Dr. 

 Todd's remarkable book is all of the right 

 kind ; and there is not in English fiction a 

 more careful and penetrating analysis of the 

 evolution of a woman's mind than is given 

 in Wilhelmina Galbraith ; but ' Windy- 

 haugh ' is not a book in which there is only 

 one ' star' and a crowd of ' supers.' Every 

 character is limned with a conscientious 

 care that bespeaks the true artist, and the 

 analytical interest of the novel is rigorously 

 kept in its proper place and is only one 

 element in a delightful story. It is a su- 

 premely interesting and wholesome book, 

 and in an age when excellence of technique 

 has reached a remarkable level, ' Windy- 

 haugh ' compels admiration for its brilliancy 

 of style. Dr. Todd paints on a large can- 

 vas, but she has a true sense of propor- 

 tion." 



Hall Caine. 



In his preface to the revised edition 

 of The Scapegoat, recently published 

 by Messrs. D. Appleton and Company, 

 Mr. Hall Caine says : " This book in its 

 present form is new to American readers, 

 although a book under the same title, 

 telling practically the same story, was 

 published in America seven years ago, 

 That was just after the passing of the 

 Copyright Act, and the effort to meet 

 the conditions of the new law seemed to 

 require that the romance should be pub- 

 lished in what I knew was an immature 

 and wholly unsatisfactory form. This 



