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a Little Creole Girl." Albion W. Tourgee enjoyed 

 An Outing with the Queen of Hearts"; and Marah 

 Ellis Ryan told a story of old Louisiana in "The 

 Flower of France." Paul Leicester Ford made his 

 appearance as a novelist with a striking story, " The 

 Honorable Peter Stirling and what People thought 

 of him," in his explorations of New York tenement 

 life ; and John Keudrick Bangs indemnified himself 

 for " Three Weeks in Politics" by telling his experi- 

 ences in an amusing manner. He also contributed 

 " The Water Ghost, and Others " to u Harper's Amer- 

 ican Story-teller Series." Mrs. Burton Harrison 

 (Mrs. Constance Gary Harrison) drew the picture of 

 " A Bachelor Maid "'of the period ; u On the Offen- 

 sive " was an army story by George I. Putnam, as was 

 " The Gun Bearer," by Edward A. Kobinson and 

 George A. Wall; "Sweet Clover" was a romance of 

 the White City, by Mrs. Clara Louise Burnham ; Eva 

 Wilder McGlasson entitled her novelette " Ministers 

 of Grace " ; " Mists " was by Fletcher Battersall ; 

 Xoah Brooks told 7 admirable " Tales of the Maine 

 Coast " ; and a local liavor pervades " P'tit Matinic', 

 and Other Monotones," sketches of Nova Scotia life, 

 illustrated with many drawings and decorations, by- 

 George Wharton Edwards. "Bayou Folk," as Mrs. 

 Kate Chopin terms the Creoles and Acadians of Lou- 

 isiana ; " Danvis Folks," whom Rowland E. Kobinson 

 found in Vermont ; " On Cloud Mountain," the scene 

 of which is poetically laid among the Rocky moun- 

 tains, by Frederick Thickstun Clark ; " His Vanished 

 Star," Charles Egbert Craddock's (Miss Mary N. Mur- 

 free) latest tale ot Tennessee moonshiners ; " St. John's 

 Wooing" and "The Old Post Road," by M. G. Mc- 

 Clelland, the latter a tale of Maryland in stagecoach 

 days ; " In the Midst of Alarms," a story of the Fe- 

 nian uprising in Canada in 1866, by R. Barr ; "Elder 

 Conklin, and Other Stories" of the far West, by 

 Frank Harris; "The Daughter of the Nez Perces," 

 by Arthur Paterson ; " Gray Rocks," by Willis G. Em- 

 erson, a tale of the middle West ; " Before the Gringo 

 came," 11 stories of life in California before the advent 

 of the American, by Gertrude Franklin Atherton ; and 

 "David of Juniper Gulch," a story of the placer re- 

 gions of California, by Mrs. Lilian Shuey, were good 

 examples of the novelist's constant search for new 

 fields. " The Pioneers of New France in New Eng- 

 land," by James Phinney Baxter, was a romance based 

 upon documents discovered in the English and French 

 archives. " In the Quartier," by Robert W. Cham- 

 bers, suggests at once Paris and student life ; from 

 William Henry Bishop we had " A Pound of Cure," 

 a study of Monte Carlo, and " Writing to Rosina " ; 

 Frank R. Stockton detailed " Pomona's Travels " ; 

 Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) told of "Sa- 

 tnantha among the Colored Folks " ; and Kate San- 

 born was delightfully humorous over " Abandon- 

 ing an Adopted Farm." "The Wives of the 

 Prophet" was by Opie P. Read (Arkansas Traveler), 

 and Archibald Clavering Gunter supplied a sequel to 

 " A Princess of Paris " entitled " The King's Stock- 

 broker." Edsrar Fawcett was the author of 3 novels, 

 " Her Fair Fame," " A Mild Barbarian," and " Out- 

 rageous Fortune," all dealing with New York life; 

 "An American Peeress," by H. C. Chatfield Taylor, 

 shifts the scene from Chicago to London with equally 

 striking transformations in the fortunes of its hero 

 and heroine ; " Chaperoned " was a brief page from a 

 summer romance detailed anonymously in the " Du- 

 known Library " ; " Dan of Millbrook," a story of 

 American life, by Charles Carleton Coffin, was re- 

 published after twenty years with the title changed 

 trom " Caleb Krinkle." " Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister" 

 rere by Marion Harland (Mrs. 

 John R. Musick con- 

 tinued his series of " Columbian Historical Novels " 

 with "Humbled Pride," a story of the Mexican War, 

 and "Union," which last relates, of course, to the 

 days of the great rebellion; "Coitlan" was a tale 

 ot the Inca world, by Anson Uriel Hancock ; " How 

 lhankful was Bewitched," by James K. llosmer, 

 suggests at once Cotton Mather ; " My Lady " was a 



v,aieD JvrniKie." " Mr. 

 and " The Royal Road " were bj 

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tale of long ago in France, by Marguerite Bouvef 

 "Claudius, the Cowboy of Ramapo Valley," by P! 

 Demarest Johnson, recalled revolutionary times iii 

 southern New York; and "lola, the Senator's 

 Daughter "was a heroine of ancient Rome, about 24 

 B. c., according to Mansfield Lovell Hillhouse. Back 

 to the times of Ahab, King of Israel, we must look for 

 the scene of " The Prince of Peace," by A. W. Acker- 

 man, and to the Orient for that of " Found and Lost," 

 by Mrs. Mary Putnam Jacobi, which made No. 2 of 

 the " Autonym Library." " Miss Hurd : An Enigma " 

 was from the pen of Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. 

 Rohlfs) ; " Claudia Hyde " from that of Frances Cour- 

 tenay Baylor ; Harriet E. Orcutt told " A Modern 

 Love Story which does not end at the Altar," and 

 " Country Lanes and City Pavements " was the some- 

 what unique title of a novel by Maurice M. Minton. 

 " The Heroine of a Mining Camp " was portrayed by 

 Mrs. Harriet E. Monroe, as " A Child of the Ages " 

 was by Francis Adams; "Where Honor leads" was 

 by Lynde Palmer, the author of " A Question of 

 Honor " ; "A Prodgial in Love," by Emma Wolf, and 

 " Love and Shawl Straps," by Annette L. Noble and 

 Pearl C. Coann, carried us abroad; "A Bit of 

 Finesse " was a story of fifty years ago, by Harriet 

 Newell Lodge, and " The Flight of the Swallow," 

 by Emily Malbone Morgan, contained a quaint ro- 

 mance. " Derringforth," by Frank A. Munsey, filled 

 2 volumes; "Under the Second Renaissance," by 

 Florence Trail, described the trials of a young Amer- 

 ican actress whose family and lover object to her pro- 

 fession ; Mrs. S. M. H. Gardner traced " The Fortunes 

 of Margaret Weld," and also published a quaint vol- 

 ume of" Quaker Idyls," which possess historic inter- 

 est ; and Charles M. Sheldon described " The Cruci- 

 fixion of Phillip Strong " for adherence to his convic- 

 tions as a Christian minister. Cheerlul, often religious 

 in tone, and all written with some good intent in view, 

 were "Betwixt Two Fires," by J. Jackson Wray ; 

 " Richard Rogers, Christian," by Alice Barber Mc- 

 Connell ; " A Summer Brother," by Sophie Bronson 

 Titterington ; " Won by Love," by Mrs. S. S. Wood ; 

 " A Child of the Covenant," by Virginia Carter Cas- 

 tlemon: "Paths and By-paths," by "Mrs. A. M. Pick- 

 ford; "The Better Way," by William F. Lacy; 

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published "Three Women" and "Growing Up"; 

 "Not for Profit" was by Fannie E. Newberry ; 

 " Grizzly's Little Pard," by Elizabeth Maxwell Com- 

 fort, suggests a mining story ; and " No Enemy (but 

 Himself) " was the verdict of Elbert Hubbard on the 

 young tramp who recounts his adventures. From 

 the same author we have " Forbes of Harvard." 

 " Piokee and her People," a ranch and tepee story, 

 by Theodora R. Jenness, is a sequel to " Two Young 

 Homesteaders " : " A Mexican Ranch," by Mrs. Janie 

 P. Duggan, " F anny's Autobiography," by Mrs. M. 

 E. Drake, and " Oowikapun," by Eeerton Ryerson 

 Young, are stories of missionary work in the' West, 

 while religion forms the keynote of "They met in 

 Heaven," by George H. Hepworth, the author of 

 " Hiram Golf's Religion," published anonymously in 

 1893; "The Weddine: Garment," by Louis Pendle- 

 ton ; " Beyond the Veil," by G. B. Willcox ; and " In 

 Distance and in Dream," by M. F. Sweetser. Labor 

 and capital are the themes of " Apprentices to Des- 

 tiny," by Lily A. Long, and " Just Plain Folks," by 

 E. S. Doubleday ; " Beneath the Dome," by A. Ar- 

 nold Clark, was posthumously printed, and proposes 

 the single-tax theory as a solution for the corruption 

 in Michigan politics portrayed ; " A Journey in Other 

 Worlds " is professedly a romance of the future, by 

 John Jacob Astor ; " '96 : A Romance of Utopia," by 

 Frank Rosewater, presents a solution of the labor 

 problem, a new God, and a new religion ; and from 



