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CRANKISMS 
Pictured by Clare Victor Dwiggins 
A Book of satirical aphorisms with extremely clever 
illustrations which carry out and develop the biting 
humor of the text to a remarkable degree. 
“ It is something more than ‘ smart,' for it compels reflec¬ 
tion, and any man that can do that has a pronounced claim 
to recognition. It is a collection of satirical aphorisms, 
some witty, some sharply cynical, and some tinged with a 
mordant humor that bites like a fact. Not the least attrac¬ 
tive feature of the book is the illustrations.”— Evening 
Telegraph , Phila. 
“Clever drawings—very clever drawings—bright aph¬ 
orisms—very bright aphorisms—make up the little book that 
the author has misnamed ‘Crankisms.’ This is not a book 
devoted to the utterances of a crank. It contains the crystal¬ 
lized wisdom of the centuries—crystals sparkling with the 
polish that Mr. Matthewman has given them.—Prof. Guy 
Carleton Lee in the Baltimore Sun. 
By Lisle de Vaux Matthewman. 
A Summer Hymnal 
A Romance of Tennessee. By John Trotwood Moorf.. 
Illustrated by Stanley M. Arthurs, i 2mo, cloth extra, $i .25. 
Marion Harland says: “For we have in the ‘Hymnal' 
one of the most exquisite pastorals of American life ever 
written. It is an Idyll—a ‘ Reverie,’ than which nothing 
more charming has been offered to our reading public since Ik 
Marvel founded a school of his own fifty-one years ago. . 
Our ‘ United Country ’ is proud of the State that has given us 
within a dozen years Charles Egbert Craddock and this later 
and gentler painter of Tennessee life.” 
“There is in the philosophy of this novel something deli¬ 
ciously sweet and comforting. ... A book of this sort occa¬ 
sionally is a delight and an inspiration.”— Louisville Times. 
“ Mr. Moore displays more sentiments than does Mr. Allen, 
and a shrewder philosophy.”— N. T. Times Saturday Review. 
“ Truly, this author of‘A Summer Hymnal ’ has touched 
and sustained a high note in novel writing. We shall think of 
him and of his book-people as tenderly as of summer days them¬ 
selves. He has written for our hearts as well as our heads.”— 
N. V. World. 
By the Higher Law 
By Julia Helen Twells, Jr., Author of “A Triumph of 
Destiny.” Illustrated by “Pal.” nmo, cloth extra, $1.50. 
“ By the Higher Law is a very dramatic novel of New 
York society life, written by one who is entirely familiar with 
the life of “ the smart set.” She writes with great power, her 
story turning upon a question of conscience, and holds the 
reader’s attention and interest throughout. 
With Bobs and Kruger 
By Frederic W. Unger. War Correspondent of the Lon¬ 
don Daily Express Illustrated with more than 150 Half 
Tones from the author’s own Photographs in the field. Crown 
8vo, cloth extra, $2.00. 
“ The best of all the books published along the same lines. 
It is absolutely unbiased. . . . We recommend Mr. Unger’s 
book above all others.”— Public Opinion. 
“ A concise and vivid statement of personal experience with 
both Britons and Boers ; more interesting to the general reader 
than a history of the war.”— The Outlook. 
“ The feeling of weariness with which the usual narrative 
of a South African war correspondent is taken up dissipates 
itself quickly in the case of Mr. Unger’s entertaining and in¬ 
structive book. There are scores of entertaining anecdotes in 
the book.” —John J. Holden, in The Dial. 
“ An absolutely truthful account.”— New York World. 
“ For stirring narrative, keen interest and truthful detail it 
is the most distinctive book that has as yet been published con¬ 
cerning the war in South Africa.”— New York Commercial 
Advertiser. 
Me Night-Side of Nature 
or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers. By Catherine Crowe. New 
Edition, with a critical introduction, by Dr. Thomson Jay 
Hudson,LL.D., author of “ The Law of Psychic Phenomena,” 
etc. nmo, cloth extra, $1.50. 
“ The subjects treated in this book are the various kinds of 
prophetic dreams, presentiments, second sight, and apparitions ; 
and in short all that class of phenomena which appears to throw- 
some light on our physical nature, and the probable state of the 
soul after death.” 
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