CHOICE FICTION. 



AMERICAN LIFE BY AMERICAN AUTHORS. 



ALBION W. TOURGEE. 



A ROYAL GENTLEMAN. (Originally published as " Toinette ") -. 

 including also ZourPs Christmas. 530 pp. Royal 8vo. Illustrated. 

 Cloth, $2. {Master and Slave.] 



One rises from its perusal with a mental impression akin to that received from the 

 performance of a tragic opera." Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 

 "A picturesque, vivid, and passionate story." Cincinnati Times. 



A FOOL'S ERRAND. By one of the Fools. 321 pp. i6mo. Cloth, 

 $ i . [ The Reconstruction Era . ] 



"Holds the critic spell-bound. . . . English literature contains no similar pic- 

 ture." International Review. 



41 The book will rank among the famous novels that, once written, must be read by 

 everybody. " Portland A dvertiser. 



A FOOL'S ERRAND, and THE INVISIBLE EMPIRE. 521 



pp. Royal 8vo. Illustrated. Cloth, $2. [The famous Novel, with 

 its justificatory Statistics and Documents] 



BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW. 521 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth, 

 $i . 50. [ The Bondage of the Freedman] 



" Scarcely anything in fiction so powerful has been written, from a merely literary 

 stand-point, as these books [' A Fool's Errand,' and ' Bricks Without Straw ']. * Uncle 

 Tom's Cabin' cannot compare with them in this respect." Springfield (Mass.) Repub- 

 lican. 



FIGS AND THISTLES. 536 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.50. 

 [A Typical American Career] 



41 In his last volume, ' Figs and Thistles,' Judge Tourgee has put into the form of 

 attractive fiction something of the lives and loves of President Garfield and his wife." 

 New York Tribune. 



44 Crowded with incident, populous with strong characters, rich in humor, and from 

 beginning to the end alive with absorbing interest. Commonwealth (Boston). 



JOHN EAX. (New.) 300 pp. Cloth, $i. [The New South] 



44 Displays more than any of his previous works, his power of humor and of graphic 

 description of men, scenes, and events." Christian Herald. 



%i Of absorbing interest to those satiated with the artificial atmosphere of the modern 

 society novel." Boston Traveller. 



HOT PLOWSHARES. {Rise and Growth of the Anti-Slavery Senti- 

 ment in Northern Politics] In preparation. 



To be had of Booksellers, or mailed post-paid on receipt of price, by 

 the Publishers, 



FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT, 



* 27 Park Place, New York. 



