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Daughter of France was a story of Acadia by 

 Eliza Frances Pollard; Span o' Life, a tale of 

 Louisbourg and Quebec, by William McLennan 

 and J. N. Mcllwraith; The True Story of Master 

 Gerard, as told by Anna T. Sadlier, carried us 

 back to the days of Leisler's government in New 

 York; The House of the Wizard was from the 

 pen of M. Imlay Taylor, and maintains the repu- 

 tation won by On the Red Staircase and An Im- 

 perial Lover; King or Knave: which Wins? was 

 an old tale of Huguenot days by William H. 

 Johnson; The Black Wolf's Breed, a story of 

 France in the Old World and the New, happening 

 in the time of Louis XIV, by Harris Dickson, 

 illustrated by C. M. Relyea; and The Man who 

 Dared, an historical romance of the time of 

 Robespierre, by John P. Ritter. Hugh Gwyeth 

 was a Roundhead cavalier according to Beulah 

 Marie Dix; The Signers of the Night, by Max 

 Pemberton, had the scene laid in Venice, and 

 from the same author we had The Garden of 

 Swords, a story of the Franco-Prussian War. 

 Robert W. Chambers wrote but one book, Out- 

 siders, an outline of New York life in all its 

 phases; Luther Strong, by Thomas J. Vivian, 

 was essentially of New England origin ; Harriet 

 Prescott Spofford contributed a foreword to Mary 

 Cameron, a romance of Fisherman's island, by 

 Edith A. Sawyer; and the Rhode Island coast 

 witnessed the wooing of The Professor's Daughter, 

 as described by Anna Farquhar. Opie P. Read 

 (Arkansas Traveler) wrote Judge Elbridge and, 

 in collaboration with Frank Pixley, The Carpet- 

 bagger; Don Cosme: A Romance of the South, 

 came from Troilus Hilgard Tyndale ; Mrs. Martha 

 S. Gielow published Mammy's Reminiscences, and 

 Other Sketches; The Ides of March, by Florie 

 Willingham Pickard, and A Texas Ranger, by 

 N. A. Jennings, as well as Bobbie, by Kate Cairns, 

 were also Southern in theme; A Mountain Eu- 

 ropa w r as discovered by John Fox, Jr., in the 

 mining regions of Kentucky; Madrine Doucet, by 

 Walter Leigh, and How Hindsight met Provin- 

 cialatis, by Louise Clarkson Whitelock, related 

 to the strained conditions of feeling between the 

 North and South; Frank Norris, the author of 

 Moran of the Lady Letty, published McTeague 

 and Blix, both stories of San Francisco, and the 

 same city is the scene of The Shadow of Quong 

 Lung, by C. W. Doyle; Horace Annesley Vachell 

 carried us to southern California in The Proces- 

 sion of Life; and Z. Z. chronicled the success 

 of A Business Venture in Los Angeles. The Lad- 

 der of Fortune w.as successfully climbed by the 

 hero of Frances Courtenay Baylor; The Treasure 

 of Mushroom Rock was a story of prospecting 

 in the Rocky mountains, by Sidford F. Hamp; 

 and the same scenery was traversed by Jack 

 Crews, in a story of railroad life by Martha Frye 

 Boggs. Denver was the scene of Windy Creek, 

 by Helen Stuart Thompson, and The Helpers, 

 by Francis Lynde. Under the Cactus Flag was, 

 of course, a story of life in Mexico, by Nora 

 Archibald Smith; and the same country is the 

 background for San Isidro, by Mrs. Mary Brad- 

 ford Crowninshield ; Jesus Delaney, by Joseph 

 Gordon Donnelly; and Priestess and Queen, by 

 Emily E.' Reader. Long Pine, by R. B. Towns- 

 hend, was the story of a lost mine among the 

 Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, whose life is viv- 

 idly pictured; The Lady of the Flag Flowers, by 

 Florence Wilkinson, revives an Algonquin legend ; 

 Baldoon, by Le Roy Hooker, portrayed Canadian 

 life; and that of the West Indies was revealed in 

 The House of the Sorcerer, by Haldame Mac- 

 Fall. George Horton went to Greece for A Fair 

 Brigand as heroine; The Fox- Woman, by John 



Luther Long, showed the same deep and sympa- 

 thetic insight into Japanese life as his Miss Cherry 

 Blossom of Tokyo; and from Onoto Watanna 

 we had Miss Nume of Japan, a Japanese-Ameri- 

 can romance. Red, White, and Blue Days, by 

 Ruth Louise Sheldon, was distinctively a novel of 

 woman's life, and from the same pen we had a 

 study of Flexible Morals; Kate Jordan (Mrs. F. 

 M. Vermilye) described A Circle in the Sand; 

 Louise F. P. Hamilton recalled the Romance of 

 Graylock Manor; and Anna Chapin Ray pro- 

 nounced Each Life Unfulfilled in her story of 

 American aspirants. Jessie Macgregor Shaw's 

 characters were bound By the Closest Ties, and 

 Cape of Storms was the title of a novel by Per- 

 cival Pollard. If I were a Man, by Harrison 

 Robertson, told the story of a new Southerner 

 aroused to a sense of responsibility, somewhat 

 akin in theme to The Launching of a Man, by 

 Stanley Waterloo, who published also The Wolf's 

 Long Howl. E. Livingston Prescott took The 

 Measure of a Man, and Helen F. Potter portrayed 

 A Man of Honor. A Man and his Mark, by W. 

 C. Morrow, dealt also with the theme of true 

 manhood and womanhood. Music was the lead- 

 ing motif of Espfritu Santo, by Henriette Dana 

 Skinner, and Love Letters of a Musician, by 

 Myrtle Reed; ocean voyages gave rise alike to 

 The Kinship of Souls, by Reuen Thomas, and 

 My Smoking-room Companions, by William Har- 

 vey King; A Civilian Attache, by Helen Dawes 

 Brown, was a story of a frontier army post, and 

 Sweethearts and Wives a collection of stories of 

 life in the navy, by Anna A. Rogers. My Lady 

 and Allan Darke was by Charles Donnell Gib- 

 son, and That Duel at the Chateau Marsanac 

 by Walter Pulitzer; Jennie Baxter, Journalist, 

 and The Strong Arm came from the Canadian 

 pen of Robert Barr (Luke Sharp) ; Lloyd Bryce 

 proffered Lady Blanche's Salon: A Story of Some 

 Souls; Merwin Webster in The Short Line War 

 exposed methods of railroad manipulation; tene- 

 ment-house life was successfully studied by Wal- 

 ter Leon Sawyer in A Local Habitation; Arthur 

 H. Veysey wrote The Two White Elephants and 

 Hats Off! the latter a comedy of American social 

 life ; politics entered into the complications caused 

 by The Broken Locket of Will A. Garland; from 

 John Henton Carter we had Ozark Post Office; 

 and from Algernon Sydney Logan Not on the 

 Chart. To Mrs. Kate Chopin we were indebted 

 for The Awakening. Novels of a religious char- 

 acter include When Shiloh came, illustrated by 

 the author, Ambrose Lester Jackson; The Larger 

 Faith, by James W. Coulter; How they kept the 

 Faith, a tale of the Huguenots of Languedoc, 

 by Grace Raymond; A Wind-blown Flower, by 

 Caroline Atwater Mason, the author of The Min- 

 ister of the World and The Minister of Carthage; 

 Jess: Bits of Wayside Gospel, by Jenkin Lloyd 

 Jones; The Ladder of Promise, by Mrs. Susan M. 

 Griffith; Father Jerome, a story of the Spanish 

 Inquisition, by Mrs. Hattie Arnold Clark; The 

 Cry Heard, a missionary story, by Ella Perry 

 Price; Uncle Nathan's Farm, advocating the vir- 

 tue of tolerance, by Mrs. M. A. Cornelius; De- 

 ficient Saints, by Miss Marshall Saunders; Shemr 

 A Story of the Captivity, by I. Breckenridge 

 Ellis; A Daughter of Israel, by Rose Porter; and 

 A Tent of Grace, by Adelina Cohnfeldt Lust. 

 John King's Question Class, by Rev. Charles M. 

 Sheldon, the author of In his Steps and The 

 Crucifixion of Philip Strong; Sabbath Nights at 

 Pitcoonans, by the author of Sandy Scott's Bible 

 Class; and The Gawktown Revival Club, by J. 

 Walter Davis, may be classed together. Social 

 questions are the theme of Leo Dayne, by Mar- 



