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No. — . The Gentleman Pensioner. 



By Albert Lee, author of " The Key of the Holy House." 

 The scene of this admirable historical romance is laid in the tumultuous England of the sixteenth 

 century, at the time when the plots of the partisans of Mary Stuart against Elizabeth seemed to be ap- 

 proaching a culmination. The hero, Queen Elizabeth's confidential messenger, has a trust to execute 

 which involves a thrilling series of adventures. This stirring romance has been compared to " A Gentle- 

 man of France," and it is safe to say that no reader will find in its pages any reason for flagging interest 

 or will relinquish the book untU the last page has been reached. 



No, — . Garthowen. 



A Welsh Idyl. By Allen Raine, author of " Mifanwy," etc. 

 "Wales has long waited for her novelist, but he seems to have come at last in the person of Mr. 

 Allen Raine, who has at once proved himself a worthy interpreter and exponent of the romjintic spirit 

 of his country." — London Daily Mail. 



No. 278. The World's Mercy. 



By Maxwell CiRAY, author of " The Silence of Dean Maitland," etc. 

 " Maxwell Gray is one of the most finished, thoughtful, artistic, and satisfying novelists of the day. 

 Whatever she does is distinguished by its artistic taste and sense of proportion and by its dignity of 

 ideas." — Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. 



No. 277. The Story of Ronald Kestrel. 



By A. J. Dawson. 

 The novel is full of interest and active life throughout, and its interest is heightened by its graphic 

 pictures of strongly contrasting environments in Morocco, in the Australian bush, and in London society. 

 A story so much out of the common as this will be certain to secure full recognition for the author's rare 

 talent. 



No. 276. A Corner of the West. 



By Edith Henrietta Fowler. 

 " There are plenty of clever things in ' A Corner of the West ' said by the characters and the author, 

 but they are never too clever by half. Her people talk in an interesting way, but they are not forever 

 trj'ing to score off each other. ... It matters extremely little what happens in a story so well written as 

 this. All .Miss Fowler's people are properly individualized. This is a book well out of the common 

 ruck." — London Chronicle. 



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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 cf 

 the year it may happen to be." — Boston Herald. t^f^S 



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275. The Idol of the Blind. |^ 



By T. Gallon,- author of " Tatterley," etc. ^H^ 



" Mr. Tom Gallon displays a naturalness, a simplicity, and a pathetic faith in human nature which 



are triumphant against the prejudices of the hardened reviewer." — London Acadetny. 



"Those who keep abreast of current fiction know that T. Gallon, a young English writer, turns out 



very interesting stories. " — Buffalo Express. 



No. 274. A Voyage at Anchor. 



By W. Clark Russell, author of " The Tragedy of Ida Noble," etc. 



This new novel is characterized by those qualities which have won for its author his fame, and withal 

 has a flavor all its own. Mr. Clark Russell takes his reader to spend a two-months' holiday in an old 

 hulk f)ff the Kentish coast, on the stretch of water between Deal and Walmer on the one side and the 

 Goodwin Sands on the other, which is known as the South Downs. The novel experiences of the holi- 

 day party are related in the delightful style of which Clark Russell is a past master. 



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