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* The Steel Hammer. By Louis Ulbach.
* Eve. A Novel. By S. Baring-Gould.
* For Fifteen Years. A Sequel to The Steel Hammer. By Louis Ulbach.
* A Counsel of Perfection. A Novel. By Lucas Malbt.
* The Deemster. A Romance. By Hall Caink.
* A Virginia Inheritance. By Edmund Pendleton.
* Ninette: An Idyll of Provence. By the author of Véra.
* "The Right Honourable." By Justin McCarthy and Mrs. Campbell-Praed.
* The Silence of Dean Maitland. By Maxwell Gray.
* Mrs. Lorimer: A Study in Black and White. By Lucas Malet.
* The Elect Lady. By George MacDonald.
* The Mystery of the "Ocean Star." By W. Clark Russell.
* Aristocracy. A Novel.
* A Recoiling Vengeance. By Frank Barrett. With Illustrations.
* The Secret of Fontaine-la-Croix. By Margret Field.
* The Master of Rathkelly. By Hawley Smart.
* Donovan: A Modern Englishman. By Edna Lyall.
* This Mortal Coil. By Grant Allen.
* A Fair Emigrant. By Rosa Mulholland.
* The Apostate. By Ernest Daudet.
* Raleigh Westgate: or, Epimenides in Maine. By Helen Kendrick Johnson.
* Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church.
* Constance, and Calbot's Rival. By Julian Hawthorne.
* We Two. By Edna Lyall.
* A Dreamer of Dreams. By the author of Thoth.
* The Ladies' Gallery. By Justin McCarthy and Mrs. Campbell-Pared.
* The Reproach of Annesley. By Maxwell Gray.
* Near to Happiness.
* In the Wire-Grass. By Louis Pendleton.
* Lace. A Berlin Romance. By Paul Lindau.
* American Coin. A Novel. By the author of Aristocracy.
* Won by Waiting. By Edna Lyall.
* The Story of Helen Davenant. By Violet Fane.
* The Light of Her Countenance. By H.H. Boyesen.
* Mistress Beatrice Cope. By M.E. Le Clerc.
* The Knight-Errant. By Edna Lyall.
* In the Golden Days. By Edna Lyall.
* Giraldi: or, The Curse of Love. By Ross George Bering.
* A Hardy Norseman. By Edna Lyall.
* The Romance of Jenny Harlowe, and Sketches of Maritime Life. By W. Clark Russell.
* Passion's Slave. By Richard Ashe-King.
* The Awakening of Mary Fenwick. By Beatrice Whitby.
* Countess Loreley. Translated from the German of Rudolf Menger.
* Blind Love. By Wilkie Collins.
* The Dean's Daughter. By Sophie F.F. Veitch.
* Countess Irene. A Romance of Austrian Life. By J. Fogerty.
* Robert Browning's Principal Shorter Poems.
* Frozen Hearts. By G. Webb Appleton.
* Djambek the Georgian. By A.G. Von Suttner.
* The Craze of Christian Englehart. By Henry Faulkner Darnell.
* Lal. By William A. Hammond, M.D.
* Aline. A Novel. By Henry Greville.
* Joost Avelingh. A Dutch Story. By Maarten Maartens.
* Katy of Catoctin. By George Alfred Townsend.
* Throckmorton. A Novel. By Molly Elliot Seawell.
* Expatriation. By the author of Aristocracy.
* Geoffrey Hampstead. By T.S. Jarvis. ​
* Dmitri. A Romance of Old Russia. By F. W. Bain, M. A.
* Part of the Property. By Beatrice Whitby.
* Bismarck in Private Life. By a Fellow-Student.
* In Low Relief. By Morley Roberts.
* The Canadians of Old. A Historical Romance. By Phillipe Gaspé.
* A Squire of Low Degree. By Lily A. Long.
* A Fluttered Dovecote. By George Manville Fenn.
* The Nugents of Curriconna. An Irish Story. By Tighe Hopkins.
* A Sensitive Plant. By E. and D. Gerad.
* Doña Luz. By Juan Valera. Translated by Mrs. Mary J. Serrano.
* Pepita Ximenez. By JUAN VALERA. Translated by Mrs. Mary J. Herrano.
* The Primes and their Neighbors. By Richard Malcom Johnston.
* The Iron Game. By Henry F. Kennnan.
* Stories of Old New Spain. By Thomas A. Janvier.
* The Maid of Honor. By Hon. Lewis Wingfield.
* In the Heart of the Storm. By Maxwell Gray.
* Consequences. By Egerton Castle.
* The Three Miss Kings. By Ada Cambridge.
* A Matter of Skill. By Beatrice Whitby.
* Maid Marian, and other Stories. By Molly Elliot Seawell.
* One Woman's Way. By Edmund Pendleton.
* A Merciful Divorce. By F. W. Maude.
* Stephen Ellicott's Daughter. By Mrs. J. H. Needell.
* One Reason Why. By Beatrice Whitby.
* The Tragedy of Ida Noble. By W. Clark Russel.
* The Johnstown Stage, and other Stories. By Robert H. Fletcher.
* A Widower Indeed. By Rhoda Broughton and Ellizabeth Bisland.
* The Flight of the Shadow. By George MacDonald.
* Love or Money. By Kathrine Lee.
* Not All in Vain. By Ada Cambridge.
* It Happened Yesterday. By Frederick Marshall.
* My Guardian. By Ada Cambridge.
* The Story of Philip Methuen. By Mrs. J. H. Needell.
* Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty. By Christabel R. Coleridge.
* Don Braulio. By Juan Valera. Translated by Clara Bell.
* The Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams. By Richard Malcom Johnston.
* A Queen of Curds and Cream. By Dorethea Gerard.
* "La Bella" and Others. By Egerton Castle.
* "December Roses." By Mrs. Campbell-Praed.
* Jean de Kerdren. By Jeanne Schultz.
* Etelka's Vow. By Dorethea Gerad.
* Cross Currents. By Mary A. Dickens.
* His Life's Magnet. By Theodora Elmslie.
* Passing the Love of Women. By Mrs. J. H. Needell.
* In Old St. Stephen's. By Jeanie Drake.
* The Berkeleys and their Neighbors. By Molly Elliot Seawell
* Mona Maclean, Medical Student. By Graham Thavers.
* Mrs. Bligh. By Rhoda Broughton.
* A Stumble on the Threshold. By James Payn.
* Hanging Moss. By Paul Lindau.
* A Comedy of Elopement. By Christian Reid.
* In the Suntime of her Youth. By Beatrice Whitby.
* Stories in Black and White. By Thomas Hardy and Others.
* An Englishman in Paris. Notes and Recollections.
* Commander Mendoza. By Juan Valera.
* Dr. Paull's Theory. By Mrs. A. M. Diehl.
* Children of Destiny. By Molly Elliot Seawell.
* A Little Minx. By Ada Cambridge.
* Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon. By Hall Caine.
* The Voice of a Flower. By E. Gerrard.
* 'Singularly Deluded. By Sarah Grand.
* Suspected. By Louisa Stratenus.
* Lucia. Hugh, and Another. By Mrs. J. H. Needell.
* The Tutors Secret. By Victor Cherbuliez. ​
* From the Five Rivers. By Mrs. F. A. Steel.
* An Innocent Impostor, and Other Stories. By Maxwell Grat.
* Ideala. By Sarah Grand.
* A Comedy of Masks. By Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore.
* Relics. By Frances Macmab.
* Dodo: A Detail of the Day. By E. F. Benson.
* A Woman of Forty. By Esme Stuart.
* Diana Tempest. By Mary Cholmondeley.
* The Recipe for Diamonds. By C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne.
* Christina Chard. By Mrs. Campbell-Praed.
* A Gray Eye or So. By Frank Frankfort Moore.
* Earlscourt. By Alexander Allardyce.
* A Marriage Ceremony. By Ada Cambridge.
* A Ward in Chancery. By Mrs. Alexander
* Lot 13. By Dorothea Gerard.
* Our Manifold Mature. By Sarah Grand.
* A Costly Freak. By Maxwell Gray.
* A Beginner. By Rhoda Broughton.
* A Yellow Aster. By Mrs. Mannington Caffyn (" Iota").
* The Rubicon. By E. F. Benson.
* The Trespasser. By Gilbert Parker.
* The Rich Miss Riddell. By Dorothea Gerard.
* Mary Fenwick's Daughter. By Beatrice Whitby.
* Red Diamonds. By Justin McCarthy.
* A Daughter of Music. By G. Colmmore.
* Outlaw and Lawmaker. By Mrs. Campbell-Praed.
* Dr. Janet of Harley Street. By Arabella Kenealy.
* George Mandeville's Husband. By C. E. Raimond.
* Vashti and Esther.
* Timar's Two Worlds. By M. Jokai.
* A Victim of Good Luck. By W. E. Norris.
* The Trail of the Sword. By Gilbert Parker.
* A Mild Barbarian. By Edgar Fawcett.
* The God in the Car. By Anthony Hope.
* Children of Circumstance. By Mrs. M. Caffyn ("Iota").
* At the Gate of Samaria. By William J. Locke.
* The Justification of Andrew Lebrun. By Frank Earrett.
* Dust and Laurels. By Mary L. Pendered.
* The Good Ship Mohock. By W. Clark Russell.
* Noémi. By S. Baring-Gould.
* The Honour of Savelli. By S. Levett Yeats.
* Kitty's Engagement. By Florence Warden.
* The Mermaid. By L. Dougall.
* An Arranged Marriage. By Dorothea Gerard.
* Eve's Ransom. By George Gissing.
* The Marriage of Esther. By Guy Boothby.
* Fidelis. By Ada Cambridge.
* Into the Highways and Hedges. By F. F. Montrésor.
* The Vengeance of James Vansittart. By Mrs. J. H. Needell.
* A Study in Prejudice. By George Paston.
* The Mistress of Quest. By Adeline Sergeant.
* In the Year of Jubilee. By George Gissing.
* In Old New England. By Hezekiah Butterworth.
* Mrs. Musgrave—and Her Husband. By Richard Marsh.
* Not Counting the Cost. By Tasma.
* Out of Due Season. By Adeline Sergeant.
* Scylla or Charybdis? By Rhoda Broughton.
* In Defiance of the King. By C. C. Hotchkiss.
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​MANY INVENTIONS. By Rudyard Kipling.
Containing fourteen stories, several of which are now published for the first time, and two poems. 12mo, 427 pages. Cloth, $1.50.
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"Of late essays in fiction the work of Kipling can be compared to only three—Blackmore's 'Lorna Donne,' Stevenson's marvelous sketch of Villon in the 'New Arabian Nights," and Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.'... It is probably owing to this extreme care that 'Many Inventions' is undoubtedly Mr. Kipling's best book."—Chicago Post.
"Mr. Kipling's style is too well known to American readers to require introduction, but it can scarcely be amiss to say there is not a story in this collection that does not more than repay a perusal of them all."—Baltimore American.
"As a writer of short stories Rudyard Kipling is a genius. He has had imitators, but they have not been successful in dimming the luster of his achievments by contrast....'Many inventions' is the title. And they are inventions—entirely original in incident,ingenious in plot, and startling by their boldness and force."—Rochester Herald.
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"Fifteen more extraordinary sketches, without a tinge of sensationalism, it would be hard to find....Every one has an individuality of its own which fascinates the reader."—Boston Times.
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THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS. Being a Series of Twelve Letters written by J. Stark Munro, M. B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881–1884. Illustrated. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50.
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BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT.
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"Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to the reader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirable portrayal of character."—Boston Home Journal.
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THE LILAC SUNBONNET. A Love Story.
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​A STREET IN SUBURBIA. By Edwin Pugh. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
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"The story is most graphically told, the characters are admirably drawn, and the moral of the whole thing is very desirable as inculcating an important lesson."—Chicago Journal.
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THE WISH. A Novel. By Hermann Sudermann. With a Biographical Introduction by Elizabeth Lee. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
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THE GODS, SOME MORTALS, AND LORD WICKENHAM. By John Oliver Hobbes. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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A FLASH OF SUMMER. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford, author of "Love Letters of a Worldly Woman," "Aunt Anne," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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​AN IMAGINATIVE MAN. By Robert S. Hichens, author of "The Green Carnation." 12 mo. Cloth, $1.25.
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THE LAND OF THE SUN.—Vistas Mexicanas. By Christian Reid, author of "The Land of the Sky," "A Comedy of Elopement," etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
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A DAUGHTER OF TO-DAY. A Novel. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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A SOCIAL DEPARTURE: How Orthodocia and I went Round the World by Ourselves. With 111 Illustrations by F. H. Townshend. 12mo. Paper, 75 cents; cloth, $1.75.
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"A story of marvelous dramatic intensity, and in its ethical meaning has a force comparable only to Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter.'"—Boston Beacon.
"A work of power which is another stone added to the foundation of enduring fame to which Mr. Caine is yearly adding."—Public Opinion.
"A wonderfully strong study of character; a powerful analysis of those elements which go to make up the strength and weakness of a man, which are at fierce warfare within the same breast; contending against each other, as it were, the one to raise him to fame and power, the other to drag him down to degradation and shame. Never in the whole range of literature have we seen the struggle between these forces for supremacy over the man more powerfully, more realistically delineated than Mr. Caine pictures it."—Boston Home Journal.
THE DEEMSTER. A Romance of the Isle of Man. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Hall Caine has already given us some very strong and fine work, and 'The Deemster' is a story of unusual power. . . . Certain passages and chapters have an intensely dramatic grasp, and hold the fascinated reader with a force rarely excited nowadays in literature.'— The Critic.
"One of the strongest novels which has appeared in many a day."—San Francisco Chronicle.
"Fascinates the mind like the gathering and bursting of a storm."—Illustrated London News.
"Deserves to be ranked among the remarkable novels of the fay."—Chicago Times.
THE BONDMAN. New edition, 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The welcome given to this story has cheered and touched me, but I am conscious that, to win a reception so warm, such a book must have had readers who brought to it as much as they took away.... I have called my story a saga, merely because it follows the epic method, and I must not claim for it at any point the weighty responsibility of history, or serious obligations to the world of fact. But it matters not to me what Icelanders may call 'The Bondman,' if they will honor me by reading it in the open hearted spirit and with the free mind with which they are content to read of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll."—'Front the Author's Preface.
CAPT'N DAVY'S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"A new departure by this author. Unlike his previous works, this little tale is almost wholly humorous, with, however, a current of pathos underneath. It is not always that an author can succeed equally well in tragedy and in comedy, but it looks as though Mr. Hal! Caine would be one of the exceptions."—London Literary World.
"It is pleasant to meet the author of 'The Deemster' in a brightly humorous little story like this....It shows the same observation of Manx character, and much of the same artistic skill."—Philadelphia Times.
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