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" The beauty of Appletons' Town and Country Library series is that one is always sure of being thoroughly 

 entertained, no matter how much at random he may make his selection or what season of the year it may 

 happen to be." — Boston Herald. 



No. 252. Concerning Isabel Carnaby. 



By Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. 

 " ' Concerning Isabel Carnaby' is beyond doubt a book to be read. It is a book with a great deal of fresh 

 and interesting observation in it ; the leading characters are really studied, and the detail is obviously from 

 life. Miss Fowler has sympathy and understanding, and her range is a wide one. She can describe a Noncon- 

 formist circle in the provinces, and pass from that to society and politics in London, or house parties in the 

 country, and seem equally at home in all of them. She writes without malice, yet with shrewdness and humor." 

 — Westminster Gazette. 



No. 25 t. The Scourge of God. 



By J. Bloundelle-Burton, author of " The Clash of Arms," " In the Day of Adversity," 

 " Denounced," etc. 

 The author's high rank among the romantic novelists of the day is confirmed by the intense interest of this 

 spirited and absorbing tale. 



" John Bloundelle-Burton is an author who is possessed of an exuberance of imagination that especially fits 

 him for stories teeming with incident and melodramatic situations. . . . He tells his stories well, and displays 

 no small amount of skill. . . . There is no falling off in interest, and the action never flags." — Chicago Evening 

 Post. 



No. 250. The Widower. 



By W. E. Norris, author of " Marietta's Marriage," " The Dancer in Yellow," "A Victim of 



Good Luck," etc. 

 This is one of the adroitly execuled pictures of social life which Mr. Norris's practiced hand invests with so 

 much interest. The experienced novel-reader is always grateful to Mr. Norris for the smooth flow of his narra- 

 tive and the skillful development of his characters and situations, and this new story will be found to be an ex- 

 cellent example of the author's agreeable work. 



No. 249. The Gospel Writ in Steel. 



By Arthur Paterson. 

 " The tale illustrates vividly and faithfully the tremendous difficulties, natural and artificial, overcome by 

 Sherman in his advance on Atlanta, and the war scenes and characters, as a whole, are drawn with commend- 

 able fidelity, as well as force, while the moral and the lessons of the whole are virile, wholesome, and inspiring." 

 — Chicago Chronicle. 



No. 248. The Lust of Hate. 



By Guy Boothby, author of "A Bid for Fortune," " The Marriage of Esther," " Dr. Nikola," etc. 

 "Mr. Guy Boothby never showed himself a more facile inventor of incidents than in ' Dr. Nikola.' His 

 latest volume, which throws further luster upon the fame of this man-devil, is quite as mysterious and startling. 

 . . . After a pretty romance, in which every thread of interest is admirably sustained, Mr. Boothby introduces 

 an unlooked-for climax which culminates in the happiness of the lovers and the first balking of Dr. Nikola in 

 one of his best-planned schemes. No author balances the scales of life and death with more maddening sus- 

 pense or nicer adjustment." — Boston Herald. 



No. 247. Dicky Monteith. 



A Love Story. By T. Gallon, author of " Tatterley " and " A Prince of Mischance." 

 " A novel to be valued for its tender sentiment, its gentle humor, its p'easant and invigorating story, and in 

 particular for the wholesome view it furnishes of life. It should be assured a popularity even greater than that 

 enjoyed by ' Tatterley.' " — St. James Gazette. 



No. 246. The Queen's Cup. 



A Novel. By G. A. Henty, author of " The Plenty Books." 

 "One of the characteristic Henty novels, full of dash and vigor. . . . The interest in the story is kept up 

 throughout, and the book is an excellent one to include in a summer library." — Washington Times. 



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