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same ground. "The Letter and the Spirit," by 

 Com Maynard, revealed the hollowness of society 

 and discussed its evils. Charles Peale Didier, the 

 author of " Twixt Cupid and Croesus" and 

 " It. S. V. P.," asked the leading question, " Would 

 Any Man f " Thomas Cooper De Leon published 

 " An Innocent Cheat " and " A Novelette Trilogy " ; 

 "The Embassy Hall." by Virginia Rosalie Coxe, 

 was distinctively a novel of society life ; and " The 

 Title-Mongers,"" by William Farquhar Payson, was 

 sufficiently suggestive of the plot. " She Who Will 

 Not When She May," by Eleanor G. Walton, con- 

 veyed a useful lesson; "Waiting for the Signal, 

 by Henry 0. Morris, outlines a socialistic ideal of 

 government, and the righting of the wrongs of 

 labor; "The Money Captain," by Will Payne, was 

 concerned chiefly with questions of finance in their 

 bearing upon the administration of municipalities. 

 " The Lost Word " was a Christmas legend of long 

 ago, told by Henry Van Dyke, Jr., and ' The Day 

 Breaketh," by Fanny Alricks Shugert, belonged 

 to the early days of Christianity; "Javan Ben 

 Selr," by Walter Kennedy, was a story of olden 

 Israel, as was also " Lost Prince Almon," by Louis 

 Pendleton. " The Son of Perdition," by Dr. William 

 A. Hammond, found a new motive for the sin of 

 Judas Iscariot, and from Sarah M. Burnham we 

 had "The Roman's Story of the Time of Claudius 

 I." Other novels having a more or less religious 

 tone were " Victor Serenus," a story of the Pauline 

 era, by Henry Wood; "Enoch, the Philistine," 

 by Le "Roy Hooker ; " Pro Christp," the story of a 

 royal Huguenot, by Mrs. Hattie Arnold Clark; 

 " Toward the Glory Gate," a story of soul growth, 

 by Julia McNair Wright ; " Petronilla, the Sister," 

 by Mrs. Emma H. Thayer ; and " Hernani the 

 Jew," a story of Russian oppression, by A. N. 

 Homer. "Lucy Broad's Choice," by Mrs. A. M. 

 Pickford, and " Philip Barton's Secret," by Mrs. 

 May Anderson Hawkins, may be classed together, 

 as may " Lone Point: A Summer Outing," by Grace 

 Livingstone Hill; "Naomi," by Chara Broughton 

 Conant ; " The Story of Marthy," by S. 0. H. Dick- 

 son; and " Miss Erin," by Mrs. M. E. S. Blundell. 

 Temperance was the theme of " Beoni the Sphinx," 

 by Ira L. Jones ; " The Secret of the Cafion," by Rev. 

 Adam Stump, was one of the "John Rung Prize 

 Series," and told a true story in narrative form. 

 Books of adventure include " Crooked Trails," 

 written and illustrated bv Frederic Remington ; 

 Frontier Stories," by Cy Warman ; "The General 

 Manager's Story," by Herbert E. Hamblen (F. Ben- 

 ton Williams); " Under the Rattlesnake Flag." by 

 F. A. Costi-llo ; "Four for a Fortune," by Albert 

 Lee ; and " Exiled for Lese Majeste," by James 

 Travis Whittaker, M. D. " In the Sargasso Sea," 

 by Thomas A. Janvier, introduced us into the realm 

 of the marvelous, to which belong " The War 

 of the Worlds," by Henry G. Wells; ''Armaged- 

 don," a tale of love, war, and invention in the 

 future, by Stanley Waterloo ; " The Lost Province : 

 How Vansittart came Back to France," by Louis 

 Tracy, intended as a sequel to " An American Em- 

 peror"; "The Recovered Continent," purporting 

 to be a tale of the Chinese invasion yet to be. by 

 Oto Mundo; " The Sack of Monte Carlo," by Walter 

 Frith ; " The Lost City," by Joseph E. Badger, Jr. ; 

 "The White Princess of the Hidden City," by 

 David Lawson Johnstone; "The Awakening of 

 Noahville," by Franklin H. North; "The Prince 

 of Gravas," by Alfred C. Fleckenstein : and " The 

 Abduction of Princess Chriemhild," by Leroy F. 

 Griffin, assisted by two friends. Mrs. Gertrude 

 Franklin Atherton (Frank Lin) published no less 

 than three works of fiction, "The Californians," 

 "American Wives and English Husbands." and 

 "The Valiant Runaways." the last a book for boys ; 



" Billy Hamilton " was the only venture of Archi- 

 bald Clavering Gunter; while "Lost Man's Lane" 

 was the title of a second episode in the life of 

 Amelia Butterworth. by Mrs. Anna Katharine 

 Green Rohlfs. Richard Henry Savage wrote " In 

 the Shadow of the Pyramids " during the last days 

 of Ismail Khedive, and " In the Swim," a story of 

 currents and undercurrents in gayest New York ; 

 Max Pemberton," The Phantom Army " and "Kron- 

 stadt," the latter a story of Russian life; Clinton 

 Ross (R.), " A Trooper of the Empress " and " Bob- 

 bie McDuff"; Linn Boyd Porter (Albert Ross) pro- 

 vided " A New Sensation " ; and " Merivale," by 

 James Robertshaw, presented phases of Southern 

 life with sensational incidents. Another detective 

 story was " A Prince of the Blood,'' by Julius A. 

 Lewis; "Gemma "was the story of a model, by 

 Alexander Me Arthur; Lucy France Pierce told the 

 mining story of "The White Devil of Verde"; 

 Clayton Lemars betrayed " The Confessions of an 

 American Citizen " ; and Louis Lombardo described 

 " The Vicious Virtuoso." " Cross Trails " was a 

 Spanish- American novel, by Victor Waite. Other 

 thrilling stories were " God's Pay Day,'' by Edgar 

 Clifton Bross, and " Little Ethel ; or A Sprig of 

 Sumac," by Philip H. Smith, while novels of a 

 psychologic turn were " As the Hart Panteth," by 

 Hallie Erminie Rives : " Mr. De Lacy's Double," by 

 Francis Eugene Storke ; " The Mind Reader," by 

 L. M. Phillips, M. D. ; and " Word for Word and 

 Letter for Letter," by Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. 

 " My Invisible Partner," by Thomas S. Denison, 

 dealt largely with the supernatural, and " Dooms- 

 day," by Crabtree Hemenway, was a weird romance, 

 while "Houses of Glass," by Wallace Lloyd, M. D., 

 purported to be a philosophical one. In conclusion 

 may be mentioned : " A Pedigree in Pawn." by Ar- 

 thur H. Veysey ; "With Gyves of Gold," by Henry 

 Atheyand'A. Herbert Bowers ; "Two Odd Girls; 

 or, Douglas Rock's Secret," by John A. Peters; 

 "Flames and Ashes," by Alice de Garret ; " Rondo," 

 by Cyril Norman ; " Maylou," by Frances Ray- 

 mond; and Robert W. " Chambers's two books, 

 "Ashes of Empire" and "The Haunts of Men." 

 " Via Lucis." while its author, Kassandra Vivaria, 

 was a young Italian girl, was written in English and 

 published first in America. 



Volumes of short stories published during the 

 year bore the names of some of our best writers 

 on their title-pages. " The Open Boat, and Other 

 Tales of Adventure," were by Stephen Crane ; 

 "Silence, and Other Stories," by Mary E. Wil- 

 kins ; " Moriah's Mourning, and Other Half-hour 

 Sketches," by Ruth McEnery Stuart ; " The Wood- 

 ley Lane Ghost, and Other Stories," by Mrs. Made- 

 leine Vinton Dahlgren ; " Comedies and Errors," 

 by Henry Harland ; " The Queerest Man Alive, 

 and Other Stories," by Rev. George Hughes Hep- 

 worth; and "Southern Stories." by George Cary 

 Eggleston. " Folks from Dixie " were described liy 

 the negro poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar; W. D. 

 Howells supplied a prefatory sketch to "The Blind 

 Man's World, and Other Stories," of Edward Bel- 

 lamy ; " Dumb Foxglove, and Other Stories," weiv 

 by Annie Trumbull Slosson ; "A Maid of the Fron- 

 tier" was the title of nine short stories by Henry 

 Spofford Canfield, and "The Sea of Love," of ten, 

 by Walter Phelps Dodge. "The Man who Worked 

 for Collister," by Mary Tracy Earle, and "The 

 Instinct of Stepfatherhood," by Lilian Bell, were 

 the titles of collections of short stories, and from 

 Agnes Blake Poor we had "Boston Neighbours in 

 Town and Out"; from Charles Belmont Davis. 

 "The Borderland of Society"; ".The Prodigal's 

 Daughter, and Other Tales," came from Lelia 

 Hardin Bugg; "The Hundred, and Other Stories." 

 from Gertrude Hall ; and "Some Marked Passages, 



