A P P L E T O N S ' SPRING BULLETIN 



Mr. J. A. Altsheler has earned a reputation by 

 his novels ot' the French Wars, the Revolution, and 

 the War of 1812, and in his new romance, to which 

 he has devoted himself" for a long time, he tells a 

 thrilling story of the civil war. The scene opens in 

 Wasliington just before the arrival of Lincoln, whose 

 coming and inauguration are graphically described. 

 Later in the story the leading characters are reunited 

 in the South, and the love story with its dramatic 

 interruptions and suspended interest runs through the 

 book. There are vivid pictures of Shiloh and Gettys- 

 burg, with adventures inside the Confederate lines. In this strong, well-studied, 

 and absorbing romance the author has produced his most important work. The 

 title of Mr. Altsheler' s new romance may be changed, but its present name is 

 /// Circling Camps. 



J. A. ALTSHELER. 



Mirry-Ann, a Manx story, by Norma Lorimer, is a quaint and charming 

 novel of life in the Isle of Man, by a \vriter new to American readers. It is a 

 love story rather than a drama, although there are dramatic episodes. The local 

 color of the scene is cleverly suggested but not insisted upon, and the tale is one 

 of universal interest, excellent in its characterization and contrasts of tvpes, enter- 

 taining in its humorous by-play, thoroughly sympathetic and full of interest from 

 the first page to the last. 







ANNA ROBESON BROWN. 



In T/.^c Immoria/ Garland, a striking novel of 

 American life, by Anna Robeson Brown, the au- 

 thor develops contrasting careers which have to 

 do with literature, the stage, and society. Her 

 treatment of her theme is vigorous and effective, 

 and no reader of the book will fail to feel the 

 actuality of her characters and the logic of their 

 development. The action of the novel passes 

 largely in New York. The story abounds in 

 vivid pictures and well-realized situations, and 

 the phases of American life which it depicts arc 

 presented with a vigor and power of graphic de- 

 Hneation which will arrest attention and gain for 

 this strong novel a high place among contemporary 

 American fiction. 



In A History of American Privateers, Mr. Edgar Stanton Maclay, the 

 distinguished historian of American sea power, presents the first comprehensive 

 account of one of the most picturesque and absorbing phases of our maritime war- 



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