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"Stanton Page" (Henry B. Fuller) in his powerful 

 novel of -Tin' Clitt Dwellat*" proved himself ait 

 capiiMc tu clcul with (he stirring lifu of modern Chi- 

 cago its witli the gentler scene.-, of "The Chevalier of 

 II IVnsicri Van!'' unl "The Ch&telaine of l.n 

 Trinite." Mrs. Amelia E. Burr described " A Singer 

 from tlie Sea" on tin- Cornish coitst, ati<l "(Jirls of a 

 Feather''; Sidney Luska ( Henry Harland) lai<l the 

 (' Vademoiselle Miss" olid the four suc- 

 eceding .stories abroad; Frank K. Stockton published 

 "Tin- Watchmaker's Wife, und Other Stories"; 

 Octave Thonet (Alice French )," Stories of a Wcst- 

 ern Town" uud " An Adventure in Photography " : 

 John Seymour Wood, " A Coign of Vantage" and 

 " An old Mean and other Stories"; Mrs. Constance 

 Cary Harrison, "Sweet Bells out of Tune" (in ad- 

 dition to editing the volume of " Short Stories " in 

 the" Distaff Series"); and 1'aul Du Chaillu the ro- 

 niantic history of u Ivar the Viking"; while "Out of 

 the Sunset Sea." by Albion W. Tourgee. pictured life 

 in the time of Columbus and introduced the Cabots. 

 Maria Louise Pool wrote two novels, " Katharine 

 North " and " The Two Salomes." Charles King's sole 

 contribution was " Foes in Ambush "; "Toppleton's 

 Client,'' by John Kendrick Bangs, was full of hu- 

 mor, as was " The 1.000,000 Bank Note, and Other 

 New Stories" of Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). 

 Lillian Bell divulged " The Love Affairs of an Old 

 Maid," and " A Spinster's Leaflets " were given to 

 the public by Alyn Yates Keith. "Prairie Folks" 

 were described by 1 1 ami in Garland; Julian Haw- 

 thorne made himself at home at " Six Cent Sam's," 

 and edited "The Confessions of a Convict"; from 

 Sarah Orne Jewett we had "A Native of Winby " 

 aiid eight other tales, largely of New England life ; 

 from Mrs. Mary Hartwelf Catherwood "The White 

 Islander" and "Old Kaskaskia"; from Patience 

 Stapleton, " My Jean " : and from Anna Katharine 

 Green (Mrs. Rohlfs) "A Matter of Millions" und 

 " Marked ' Personal.' " Edgar Fawcett wrote ' Ameri- 

 can Push "and "Loaded Dice"; Edgar Saltus," Madam 

 Sapphira: A Fifth Avenue Story"; and Robert Ap- 

 pleton, " Mr. Philip St Clare," a novel of fashionable 

 life. "Friends in Exile" was a tale of diplomacy, 

 coronete, and hearts, by Lloyd Bryce. Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Winter ("Isabella Rastelar"), tne wife of William 

 Winter, iramed a tale of adventure in the attempt to 

 find " The Spanish Treasure " ; and Marie Corelli dis- 

 played original imagination in her "Barabbas." 

 " The Reverend Melanchthon Poundtex " was a novel 

 by the late Donn Piatt Gilbert Parker dawned on 

 us as a new writer of Canadian romance in " Pierre 

 and his People" reminding us a little of Kipling. 

 He also published " The Translation of a Savage " 

 and " Mrs. Falchion," and collaborated with Lute 

 Sharp, Lanoe Falconer, and others to produce "Tavis- 

 tock Tales." " The Hermit of the Nonquon," by 

 Charles Nelson Johnson, had its scene laid in the 

 Canadian backwoods of to-day. Bright books were 

 " White Birches," by Annie E'liot; " The Petrie Es- 

 tate," by Helen Dawes Brown ; " A Wedding Tangle," 

 by Frances Campbell Sparhawk ; " Melody," by Mrs. 

 Laura E. Richards ; ana humorous stories " Told by 

 the Colonel," according to William L. Alden. Grace 

 Greenwood (Mrs. Sara J. Lippincott) gave us a new 

 volume of" Stories and Sketches," as interesting as any 

 she every published, and stories of local color were 

 " Dr. Latimer : A Story of Casco Bay," by Mrs. Clara 

 Louise Burnham ; " At Mount Desert," by Mildred 

 Fairfax ; " Klinor Fenton," an Adirondack story, by 

 1 >. s. Foster ; " An Adirondack Idyl," by Mrs. Lida O. 

 Vanamee ; " Tom Croly's Word," by G. W. Hamilton : 

 "The Old House at Four Corners," by Margaret K. 

 Parker; " A Tirt' with the Tiffins," by Frances Isabel 

 Currie ; " From Side Streets and Boulevards," a col- 

 lection of Chicago stories, by Preserved Wheeler; 

 "The Loyalty of Langstreth,*' by J. R. V. Gilliat ; 

 4 Where the Tides meet," by Edward Payson Berry ; 

 " The Road of the Rough : A Simple Story of Life 

 in New York," by Maurice M. Minton; "The Little 

 Heroine of Poverty Flat," by Elizabeth M. Comfort; 



Browne; " Silhouettes from Lite; On the Pn. 

 kwoods," by Ansou U. Hancock ; " '!); 

 of a Western Cluiin," by S. ( '. Oilman, telling how 

 two boys solved the Indian question ; " A Florida 

 Enchantment," by Archibald Clavcring Gunt. 

 Fergus Redmond; " Broadoaks," the ceerie of which 

 is laid in Virginia, by M. G. McClelland; "A South 

 ern Heritage," by William H. Brown; "A Border 

 Leainler.'' by Howard Sec ley ; " Redbank." a quiet 

 story of life on a Georgia plantation, by M. L. Cow leu ; 

 "'Gainst Wind and Tide," by Nelfie T. Kinkead; 

 "Born in the Whirlwind," by William Adams. I). D. : 

 " A Tennessee Judge" and "Miss Madam. and Other 

 Sketches," by Opie P. Read (Arkansas Traveler n 

 "Nance: A Story of Kentucky Feuds," by Nanci 

 Lewis Greene; "John Gray," a talc of the same 

 State in the olden time, by James Lane Allen, and 

 " A Golden Wedding, and Other Tales," by Ruth Mc- 

 Enery Stuart "A Mute Confessor" was the romance 

 of a Southern town, told by William N. IlarU-n. Hen- 

 rietta Mat. -on depicted " The Mississippi Schoolmas- 

 ter" (colored) ; W. 8. Harrison wrote u Sam Williams: 

 A Tale of the Old South," and George G. Smith " Mr. 

 Hall and his Family, especially Susie." Charles 

 Sumner Seeley gave a realistic account of strange ad- 

 ventures in " The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs " and 

 Emily Howland Hoppin in " From Out of the Past" 

 gave many descriptions of Touraine. u Val Maria," 

 by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, was a romance of the 

 time of Napoleon I, and " Self-accused," by Frank 

 Morton, had its scene laid in the Hawaiian Islands. 

 John R. Musick continued his u Columbian Historical 

 Novels " with " A Century too soon," a story of Ba- 

 con's Rebellion, " Braddock," " The Pilgrims, " The 

 Witch of Salem," " Independence," and " Sustained 

 Honor," the last relating to the War of 1812 ; and other 

 tales of bygone days were " Dorothy the Puritan," by 

 Augusta Campbell Watson; "Beatrice Hallam," by 

 John Esten Cooke ; " The Brides of the Tiger." by 

 W. II. Babcok; "Ansel's Cave: A Story of Early 

 Life in the Western Reserve," by A. G. Riddle : "Old 

 'Kaskia Days," by Elizabeth Hoi brook; "The Stormy 

 Petrel," a tale of the closing days of slavery and John 

 Brown's raid, by J. Bowles ; ""John Holden, Union- 

 ist," by T. C. De Leon and Erwin Ledyard ; " The 

 Copperhead," by Harold Frederic ; " A True Son of 

 Liberty," by F. P. Williams; and " In Blue Uniform." 

 by George I. Putnam. " The Son of a Prophet," by 

 George Anson Jackson, attempts to create the charac- 

 ter of the author of the Book of Job. " The Com- 

 plaining Millions of Men " was a strong story by Ed- 

 ward Fuller, opposed to Socialism ; Robert Grimshaw 

 prophesied of what may be in 1943 in " Fifty Yearn 

 Hence"; "Ai: A Social Vision," seen by Charles 

 Daniel, had reference to the social reform of the city 

 of Philadelphia; and "Looking Within." by J. W. 

 Roberts, made manifest the misleading tendencies of 

 " Looking Backward." " Joseph Zalmonah," by Ed- 

 ward King, shows the evils of the sweating - 

 and " The Cosmopolis Club," by Rev. Washington 

 Gladden, discussed many political evils. 

 Such ? The/e will yet be Thousands," by Emory 

 .1. Haynes, 1). D., points out to millionaires methods to 

 dispose of their wealth, while " I'nveiling a Parallel," 

 by "two women of the We*t." was a satire upon mod- 

 ern civilization. " Alter Many Days " purported to 

 be an American novel by two Americans, Theodora 

 B. Wilson and James Clarence Harvey. Amanda M. 

 Douglas published " I.yndell Sherlmrnc,'' a sequel to 

 Micrl'iirnc House," Bertha Wray's New Name." 

 and " Larry.'' which last won the $000 prize offered 

 by the " Youth's Companion." Julia McS'air Wright 

 wrote three stories also, " The House on the Beach." 

 "Mr. Grosvenor's Daughter," and "On a Snow-bound 

 Train," and Fannie E. Newberry -The Odd 

 Nathan Haskell Dole wrote a novel on his own account 

 entitled " Not Angels quite." Mary Harriot Norrispub- 



