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THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW 

 ROOM. 



By GASTON LEROUX. 



Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s. 



This mysterious and fascinating story has not yet been published 

 in a form adapted for library reading, and it may be confidently 

 expected to prove the same wonderful success in this edition as in 

 the cheap sixpenny issue which made such an impression upon a 

 section of the public not repelled by small type and paper covers. 

 The book deserves to have a place beside the classic works of 

 Gaboriau, and can safely be recommended as one of the most 

 thrilling mysteries of modern fiction. 



ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE. 



Stories of tbe TJClorlo's Springtime. 

 By W. M. L. HUTCHINSON, 



AUTHOR OF ' THE GOLDEN PORCH,' ETC. 



Illustrated. Crown 8vo., cloth. 53. 



In this book some of the earliest and most beautiful of Greek 

 myths are presented under the guise of stories told to the child Orpheus 

 by the Muses, whom he meets on nine moonlight nights in their 

 woodland haunts. Thus, the first part, entitled ' The Making of 

 a Minstrel,' forms a ' Forest Night's Entertainment/ including, 

 among others, the legends of Prometheus, Pandora, the Coming of 

 Apollo to Delphi, Demeter and her Maiden, and the fortunes of 

 Cadmus and his house. The shorter second part deals with Orpheus 

 the Singer, and 'his half-regained Eurydice,' and takes us to the 

 Underworld, where the minstrel hears from the shades of ancient 

 heroes Sisyphus, Ixion, Meleager the tale of their crime or 

 misfortune. We are shown the realm of Pluto, not in the darker 

 colouring of Virgil's pencil, but as Greek imagination pictured it, 

 a shadowy land where souls dwell, as in Dante's Limbo, ' only so 

 far afflicted that they live Desiring without hope.' The fate of 

 Orpheus is reticently and simply told, and the story has the happiest 

 of endings in the Elysian Fields. 



