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story of a Pennsylvania mining and manufacturing 

 town: and "Tlie Fur Traders of the \\Y-t: or, 

 Adveiituresamont,' the Redskins." l>y Krnest ll.Suf- 

 fling. " Vekl : A Tale of the New York Ghetto," 

 liv A. Cahan. awakened much favorable comment ; 

 F'rank Pope IIumi>hrey described "An American 

 Dog Ahmad": ".Mr. 'Billy Buttons," by Walter 

 II. Leeky. proved a story of Canada,; George de 

 Valiere gathered "Opals from a .Mexican Mine": 

 "Little Daughter of the Sun." by Julia I*. Dabney. 

 had its plot worked out in the Canary Islands, and 

 Duncan Campbell -Scott told short stories of what 

 took place " In the Village of Vigor," in France. 

 Novels which dealt with social problems were 

 "Jerry the Dreamer," by Will Payne: ''White 

 Satin and Homespun." by Katrina Trask (Mrs. 

 Spencer Trask) ; " A Silver Baron," by Carlton 

 Waite ; "The Social Crime," by Minnie L. Arm- 

 strong and George X. Sceets ; " A Daughter of Hu- 

 manity," by Edgar Maurice Smith ; and " Some 

 Modern Heretics." by Cora Maynard. " The Tower 

 of the Old Schloss " was a pretty love story by Jean 

 Porter Rudd. and Mrs. Laura E. Richards wrote 

 for grown folks " Some Say " and " Xeighbors in 

 Cyrus," both in one volume. Allen Upward, the 

 author of "A Prince of Balkistan," wrote "A Crown 

 of Straw." while Abner Thorp, M. D., made a study 

 of " A Child of Xature." " Trains that met in the 

 Blizzard " was a composite romance by R. Pitcher 

 Woodward, which chronicled the adventures of 

 t welve men and one woman in the blizzard of March, 

 isss : and " The Story of a Train of Cars " was told 

 by Wallace Peck. " Your Money or Your Life " 

 was the title of an unusual romance by Edith Car- 

 penter, and George A. Woodward published " The 

 Diary of a Peculiar Girl." Elizabeth Phipps Train 

 gave us " The Autobiography of a Professional 

 Beauty " : Emma Wolf, the author of " Other 

 Things being Equal." examined " The Joy of Life " ; 

 while to the realm of the improbable belong " The 

 Gold Fish of Gran Chimu," by Charles F. Lummis, 

 and " The Man who became a Savage," by William 

 T. Hornaday. " Master Ardick, Buccaneer " was by 

 F. H. Costello ; John D. Barry was the author of 

 " The Intriguers " and Jeanie Drake of " The Met- 

 ropolitans "; " In Sight of the Goddess " was a tale 

 of Washington life by Harriet Riddle Davis, and so- 

 ciety at the capital was described in " Xot all the 

 King's Horses." 1 >y Katherine Elwes Thomas. " The 

 Exhibits in an Attachment Suit " were set forth by 

 Charles Peale Didier ; and " The Epistolary Flirt in 

 Four Exposures " came from Esmerie Armory. Lula 

 B.Davis wrote "A Modern Argonaut": Celia E. 

 Gardner, " Won under Protest " ; James Barnes, 

 "A Princetonian " ; Martha Caroly Davis, "The 

 Refiner's Fire " ; Maurice Francis Egan, " The Vo- 

 cation of Edward Conway " ; George Douglas Tall- 

 man described " Tom's Wife and How he Managed 

 her": Alwyn M. Thurber told of "Quaint Crippen, 

 Commercial Traveler " ; " Ladies First," by M rs. 

 Dominique F. Verdenal, recalls California "in the 

 sixties ; and the same State is the scene of " The 

 Quicksands of Pactolus," by Horace Annesley Va- 

 chell. Frank H. Converse described the search for 

 " The Lost Gold Mine " ; " Posie : or. From Reveille 

 to Retreat " was an army story, by Mrs. M. A. Coch- 

 ran: and "Out of the Woods" a romance of camp 

 life by George P. Fisher, Jr. " Dedora Hey wood 

 was by Gertrude Smith ; " A Bad Penny." by John 

 T. Wheelwright, and " The Romance of Guarda- 

 monte," by Arline E. Davis ; while from Julia McXair 

 Wright we had " The Pooles' Millions : The Story of 

 a Card House," "Cynthia's Sons," and "The House 

 on the Bluff: A Western Flood Story." "A Mat- 

 ter of Temperament," by Edward Irenaeus Steven- 

 son (Janus), was musical in its theme ; William 

 W. M. Cornish wrote " Behind Plastered Walls " ; 



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Henry Block, " Property of Don Gilbar"; and Wil- 

 liam J. Locke. " Some Women and a Man." Books 

 more or less religious in tone wen; "The Quiet Kin^ : 

 A Story of Christ," by Caroline Atwatcr M;: 

 "The Hero of the Ages : A Story of the Na/ai 

 by Catherine Robertson McCartney ; " A si of Beth- 

 lehem and his Household, n. c. H-A. n. XXX." by 

 Mary Eli/abeth Jennings; ' My Brother," bv Vin"- 

 cent Brown; "The Parson's Proxy," by Kate W. 

 Hamilton; "From Hollow to Hilltop." by Mary 

 Lowe Dickinson ; " Strange Condition^," by Fannie 



E. Newberry ; "Friends for Good," by Mrs. Mary 



F. Xeely Bradley ; " The Rainproof Invention," by 

 Emily Weaver: "The Ilathaways' Sister," by Mrs. 

 Annie Kendrick Benedict : "A -b-uit of To-day," 

 by Orange McNeill ; "A Year at Dangerfield," "by 

 Kate Xeely Festetits ; " Only Susan," by Mrs. Emma 

 Martin Marshall; "As Queer as she could be," by 

 Jessie E. Wright; "His Brothers Keeper," by 

 Charles M.Sheldon; "Ben Abbott." a temperance 

 story, by Fanny Long ; and " A Tower in the Des- 

 ert." by Mrs. Virginia D. Young. Mrs. Xathaniel 

 Conklin (formerly Jennie M. Drinkwater) told of 

 " Paul French's Way " and " Dolly French's House- 

 hold." " True to the End " was a story of the Swiss 

 Reformation by Henry S. Burrage, D. D. ; Mrs. Har- 

 riet A. Cheever described the work of " A Rescued 

 Madonna " ; "Gold, Grace, and Glory " was a story 

 of religious life among the wealthy' classes of the 

 West and South ; and W. B. Bohner prophesied 

 " The Time is Coming " for the second advent. 

 " The Log of the ' Lady Grey ' " was a pleasing tale 

 by Louise Seymour Houghton, and Mrs. James 

 Carey Coale combined in one volume " The Cottage 

 by the Sea " and its sequel " The Egmont Brothers." 

 To a more exciting class belong " The Love Adven- 

 tures of Al-mansur." by Archibald Clavering Gun- 

 ter, who published also "Her Senator"; H. G. 

 Wells pictured a horrible possibility in " The Island 

 of Doctor Moreau " ; Richard Henry Savage wrote 

 alone " Lost Countess Falka : A Story of the Orient " 

 and in collaboration with Mrs. Archibald Claver- 

 ing Gunter " His Cuban Sweetheart." " Under 

 Three Flags " was a story of mystery by B. L. Tay- 

 lor and A. T. Thoits, while Mrs. Gertrude Franklin 

 Atherton's sole contribution was "A Whirl Asun- 

 der." " The Third World," a tale of love and 

 strange adventure, by Henry Clay Fairman, may be 

 classed with " Beyond the Paheocrystic Sea." by A. 

 S. Morton : and considerable imagination was also 

 required to conceive the adventure of " The Cap- 

 tured Cunarder." by W. H. Ricleing. " The Crime 

 of the Century " was one of the popular detective 

 stories by Rodrigues Ottolengui, and " The Strange 

 Schemes of Randolph Mason " were set forth by 

 Melville Davisson Post. It is impossible to more 

 than enumerate " The Juggernaut of the Moderns," 

 by Rosa Hudspeth ; " Edgar Fairfax." a story of 

 West Point, and " The Twin Sisters," both by Flor- 

 ence Xightingale Craddock ; " That Girl from Bo- 

 gota," by Clarice Irene Clingham ; " A Daughter 

 of Cuba," by Helen M. Bowen ; " Checkers," by 

 Henry M. Blossom, Jr.; "A House of Cards," by 

 Alice S. Wolf; " Robert Atterbury." by Mrs. John 

 R. Jarboe; "Deborah, the Advanced Woman." by 

 Mary Ives Todd ; "Mr. Mercer of Xew York." by 

 Annie H. Wilson: "Dainty Iniquity." by Mar- 

 iraret Granville; " Paradise" Wold," by Alice V. 

 Carey; "Wheels: A Bicycle Romance," by "A 

 Wheeler": "The Woman' with Good Intentions," 

 by Meg Merriles ; and "An Ambitious Man," by 

 Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Hypnotism is the 

 theme of " Mark Heffron," by Alice Ward Bailey, 

 and of " Blind Leaders of the Blind," the romance 

 of a blind lawyer, by James R. Cocke, M. D. ; " Kar- 

 ma," by Paul Cams, went through a second edition, 

 printed and illustrated by Japanese artists in colors 



