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Trial- .f a Stall ( Ulicer " ; hi- nl-,, edited " Hy 

 .1 ciillcction of stnries hy army 

 ami naval ollicers. In "A S'ippho 'f ' 



.- and other Stories" Hret llarte is again 

 ut hi- o,-t. while an entirely new departin 

 made l>y Stitnton Pago (Henry B. Fuller) in 

 "Tin- Cnevalier of Penstori - vani." Another 

 novel i.f Italy was "An Utter Failure," by Mrs. 

 .Miriam Cole Harris, the author of the familiar 

 " Kut ledge." Stories <if marked local coloring 

 :nn of the Allcghanies " and Told in 

 the llills"(df Montana), liy Marah Kllis Kyan; 

 (n Newfound II i ver," hy Thomas Nelson Page; 

 Mn-aliani Jackson and his Family: an 

 Kpi-ode in the Involution of Nebraska Dug-outs," 

 l\ An-nii L T ricl Hancock; "Otto, the Knight, 

 and other Trans-Mississippi Stories," by Octave 

 Tlmnet (Alice French) : " From Timlier to Town 

 Down in Kgypt," by an early settler who prefers 

 to remain nameless; " Down the O-hi-o" in ante- 

 bellum days, by Charles H. Roberts; "The Im- 

 of a Gentlewoman," by Fannie E. New- 

 rry ; " The Puritan's Daughter " (sequel to 



Creole and Puritan ''), a character romance of 

 p o sections, by T. C. De Leon ; " Tom and Joe, 



'wo Farmer Hoys in Love and War and Peace : 

 a Louisiana Memory," by Clarence B. Collins; 

 " Flute and Violin, and other Kentucky Tales 

 and Romances," by James Lane Allen; "The 

 Primes and their Neighbors : Ten Tales of Middle 

 Georgia," by Richard Malcolm Johnston ; " An 

 Indiana Man," by Le Roy Armstrong ; " Pine Val- 

 ley," the story of a Western mining region, by 

 L. B. France; "In the High Valley," by Susan 

 Coolidge (Sarah C. Woolsey); "In Biscayne 

 Bay," by Caroline W. Rockwood ; George Fox 

 Tucker's literal transcript of " A Quaker Home " ; 

 " Kinging Hells," by Reese Rockwell; "Jolly Good 

 Times at Hackmatack," by Mary P. Wells Smith ; 

 A New England Nun and other Stories," by 

 Mary E. Wilkins; and "Huckleberries gathered 

 from New England Hills," by Rose Terrv Cooke ; 

 while " A New York Family," by Edgar Fawcett, 

 presents an unattractive picture. Mexico was 

 the scene of " The Yellow Snake," by William 

 Henry Bishop. " Columbia : a Story of the 

 Discovery of America," by John R. Musick, opens 

 a series of twelve historical novels to embrace 

 the leading events of American history. "A 

 Woman of Shawmut," by Edmund Janes Car- 

 penter, was a capital romance of colonial times, 

 and " Hetty Alden, the First-born Daughter of 

 the Pilgrims," followed in the series of romances 

 of the old Plymouth Colony, of which Mrs. Jane 

 G. Austin has already sent out three. Another 

 of Mrs. Mary llartwell Catherwood's tales of 

 Acadia was " The Lady of Fort St. John," while 

 " From Colony to Commonwealth," by Nina 

 Morre Tiffany, was a collection of stories of the 

 Revolutionary days in Boston. " In Old Quinne- 

 basset" belonged to the same period, and had 

 Washington for the central figure ; it was by 

 Sophie May(R. S. Clarke); while "The Lost 

 Colony," by James F. Raymond, " Yankee Doo- 

 dle Dixie," by John Vincent Ryals. the "Ad- 

 ventures of a Fair Rebel," Matt Crim's first 

 novel, are essentially Southern in tone. Stories 

 of the war are "The Iron Game," by Henry F. 

 Keenan ; " Reunited," by a popular but anony- 

 mous Southern author ; " Love and Rebellion," 

 by Martha Caroline Keller, which includes re- 



consi ruction also; "The Captain of Company 

 K," by Joseph Kirklaiid, the author of "Xury,'' 

 a trUdnglj realistic tale; and "lluldah Bmit'l 

 Will." l.v .Mix. s. S. l(..bbin*. 



".Monk and Knight: an Historical Study in 

 Fiction," in two volumes, by Rev. Frank W. 

 (itinsaiilus. is intended rather for the student of 

 history than the average novel render: "A King 

 of Tyre," by .James M. Ludlow. carries us back 

 to the times of K/ra and Nehemiah; "Ali-ph 

 the Chaldean," by Dr. K. F. Hurr, was religious 

 also in character; from Alice K. Cool, y we ha\e 

 "Asaph," an historical romance, and from Har- 

 riet Prescott Spofford "Azarian: an Kpix.de." 

 "Dr. Huguet," by Edmund Boisgilbert. M. l>. 

 (Ignatius Donnelly), has the race problem at tin- 

 South for its motive, and deals largely with the 

 supernatural; "Dr. Lamar," by an unknown au- 

 thor, deliberates the question of ending suffering 

 or useless lives ; " A. D. 2050 " described the elec- 

 trical development of Atlantis by a former resi- 

 dent of the " Hub," and belongs to the type 

 of novel inaugurated by Edward Bellamy, an- 

 other of which is "A. D. 2000," by Alvarailo M. 

 Fuller. "The Crystal Button," by Chauncey 

 Thomas, details adventures in the forty-ninth 

 century, while Milton W. Ramsey contemplated 

 " Six Thousand Years hence." " The Enchant- 

 ed," by John Bell Bouton, " Atmfin," by Francis 

 Howard Williams, " Beyond the Bourn," by 

 Amos K. Fiske, " The Hidden City," by Walter 

 II. McDougall, " Zanthon," by James Doran, and 

 " Prisons of Air," by Moncure D. Conway, deal 

 with the obscure and improbable, while books 

 that grapple with the problems of actual daily 

 life, its struggles and necessities, are " Masters 

 and Men," by Eugene J. Hall ; " Which Wins f 

 a Story of Social Conditions," by Mrs. Mary II. 

 Ford ; " Moina, or against the Mighty," deal- 

 ing with socialism, by Lawrence L. Lynch ; " A 

 Tramp in Society," by Robert H. Cowdrey : and 

 "The Rice Mills of Port Mystery," by B. F. 

 Houston. " His Cousin the Doctor" was direct- 

 ed against Christian science by Minnie Willis 

 Baines, and " Rabbi and Priest," by Milton Gold- 

 smith, is founded on facts of Russian persecu- 

 tion of Jews. "Senator Lars Erikspn was a 

 story of love and politics by Franklin W. Lee, 

 while how "The Bachelor's Club" was finally 

 dissolved was told by I. Zangwill. " St. Martin's 

 Summer," by Rose Porter, " The Romance of a 

 Spanish Nun," by Alice M. Baldy, " Phillida," by 

 Maude Howe, "The Sardonyx Seal," by Belle 

 Gray Taylor, " Marguerite," by Mrs. Mary J. 

 Holmes, " Mostly Marjorie Day," by Virginia F. 

 Townsend, " Sweet and Twenty,"' by Mary F. 

 Sanborn, " The Story of Two laves,' 5 by Stuart 

 Sterne (Gertrude Bloede), " If she Will, she 

 Will." by Mary A. Denison, "An Exceptional 

 Case," by Itti Kinney-Reno, "One Woman's 

 Way," by Edmund Pendleton, " No Saint," by 

 Anne Bozeman Lyon, "The Heirs of Bradley 

 House," by Amanda M. Douglas, " Diana Fon- 

 taine," by Algernon Ridgeway. "Di," by Squier 

 L. Pierce, "The Man with a Thumb," by W. C. 

 Hudson, "The Lady of Cawnpore," by' Frank 

 Vincent and Albert E. Lancaster, "The Ad- 

 ventures of Three Worthies." by Clinton Ross. 

 " A Manless World," by Agnes" Bond Yourell, 

 rross Roads," by Mary Halloway, and "John 

 Winthrop's Defeat," by John K. Ludlura, found 



