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THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
soME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON

Justin HuntIy McCarthy's "The Dryad"
 Charles Stokes Waync's "A Prince
 to order"-Thomas N. LnwIer's "CO-
 lumBus and MageIIan"-sIessrs.
 BIaisdeII and Balls "shorts Stories
 From American HistOry"-ForthcOm-
 ing BOoks-MagaZines
 Justin Huntly McCarthy's novel, "The Dryad,' just issued by Harper & Brothers, is a delightful, fanciful tale of the court of the Duke of Athens, the heroine being a beautiful nymph of the woods, the last of the immortals who goes out into the world to seek her lov- CT, and encounters many unexpected and entertaining experiences and ad- ventures. The heroine's name is Arga- thona. She is possessed of death less love, and life and beauty. She dwells in the Eleusinian forest, and it is there she finds the young knight, son Of the Duke of Athens, who has been set upon and wounded by some lusty robbers while reading ''The Ro-
 
 the nick of time by the heroine and a brawny, powerful, wandering French swordsman whose philosophy is of the Ealstaffian order. But scarcely have the lovers told their love, these two, than the young prince is beguiled away and carried off toAthens. While the dryad is seeking an herb of great curative powers to heal her wound ed lover, the royal Duchess of Thebes, passing through the forest, with her cavalcade, sees the wounded youth. His handsome face and figure appeal to her wanton eyes and capri cious tastes, while his high title and rank appeal to her ambition. She ad- ministers an opiate, and has the uncon- scious prince carried to her castle He has haunting memories of the beauti- ful maiden who cared for him in the ,heart of the forest.
 Playing upon his knightly credulity, the Duchess persuades him that it was she who cared for him. They are to be married, but the dryad, who has learned what love is and of the Duch- ess scheme to entrap her lover, renoun- ces her immortality and becomes a mere woman for his sake. Interwoven { in the tale is the story of the ruthless Slaughter of the army of the Duke of Athens by his adversaries
 { The story is beautiful, clothed with idyllic flavor and poetic grace through out. Color and charm abound in the scribed as "a bright fairy tale for grown ups" ia midsummer's day dream delightfully."- told" Price $1.50; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
 "A Prince to Order is story of ex- traordinary interest despite the various ' extravagances of the plot, which, how ever, do not detract from the readable character of the tale. It is a novel akin to the family of books of which 4 .The Prisoner of Zenda' is the cap ] sheaf. The story furnishes capital en- i, Sertainment throughout and can be Aartily recommended for the leisure x, A young, athletic, handsome on. York broker awakes one morning 3 Aris, wh ereas he went to bed the ij sIg nssg previous, as far as he can re- nzs4ember, in Manhattan. By various channels he learns that three months X have really intervened. He is wanted by the New York authorities on ac- count of a defalcation of one hundred thousand dollars, has been figure in other extraordinary escapades, and the victim of weird influences. He was Carey Grey, and is So now to his own intelligence, but has been during the in terval the supposed crown prince of Budavia. He decides to see the game out, and the uDshot of it is that he comes within an ace of holding down the Budavian throne The strange story is manufactured with uncommon inge- nuity and constructive skill
 As says the New York Herald: Here is indeed a novel of action, of romance of passion and of stirring adventure It begins with a striking and novel sit uation, the kidnapping of a modest American citizen and his transforma- |sn ton, under sort of hypnotic spell |Y into an innocent and unwilling claim ant to the throne of Budavia-a king. dom which you will not find upon the map.
 It carries you through episode after episode of seductive and piquant inter- est, until it leads you to a startling and # Unexpected denouement. Your atten- tion is held until the end is reached.
 The struggles of the bewildered herc # when he returns to reason in Paris ant seeks to free himself from the network of conspiracy in which he finds himself enmeshed, are portrayed with keer E| relish for both their humorous ant 5 1 their pathetic features. You sympa. 3 tTize, yet you laugh as we'll.
 |# The Partisan atmosphere is cleverly & maintained. Great personages, such a. < the Shah of Persia and the King of ,tht Belgians, are made to run the gauntle # of international criticism in the cafes The dialogue, especially of the Ameri E can contingent, is bright and gnumor E ous. But the best scenes of the bool ES are laid in the imaginary capital O IZ Budavia, where the unintentional i'm K pastor reaches the climax of his tribu 7 lations and emerges at last in blaz, of glory
 "A Prince to Order" is published b,
 MT. John Lane; price s1.50; for sale b, \ all leading booksellers.
 "Columbus and Magellan" by Thom as Bonaventure Lawler, author of IFS
 sentials of American History" is one 0 +J,-, 1tcYlrc for schools