“The historian of the plains has done nothing better than this group of Western stories. Wayside courtships they are, but full of tender feeling and breathing a fine, strong sentiment.”--_Louisville Times._ =_JASON EDWARDS. An Average Man._= “The average man in the industrial ranks is presented in this story in as lifelike a manner as Mr. Bret Harte presented the men in the California mining camps thirty years ago.... A story which will be read with absorbing interest by hundreds of working men.”--_Boston Herald._ =_A MEMBER OF THE THIRD HOUSE. A Story of Political Warfare._= “The work is, in brief, a keen and searching study of lobbies and lobbyists. At least, it is the lobbies that furnish its motive. For the rest, the story is narrated with much power, and the characters of Brennan the smart wire-puller, the millionaire Davis, the reformer Tuttle, and Evelyn Ward are skillfully individualized.... Mr. Garland’s people have this peculiar characteristic, that they have not had a literary world made for them to live. They seem to move and act in the cold gray light of reality, and in that trying light they are evidently human.”--_Chicago Record._ =_A SPOIL OF OFFICE. A Story of the Modern West._= “It awakens in the mind a tremendous admiration for an artist who could so find his way through the mists of familiarity to an artistic haven.... In reading ‘A Spoil of Office’ one feels a continuation of interest extending from the fictional into the actual, with no break or divergence. And it seems to be only a question of waiting a day or two ere one will run up against the characters in real life.” ALSO, =_A LITTLE NORSK; or, Ol’ Pap’s Flaxen._ 16mo. Boards, 50 cents.= “True feeling, the modesty of Nature, and the sure touch of art are the marks of this pure and graphic story, which has added a bright leaf to the author’s laurels.”--_Chicago Tribune._ “A delightful story, full of humor of the finest kind, genuine pathos, and enthralling in its vivid human interest.”--_London Academy._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.50. Uniform Edition. =Some Women I have Known.= (_Nearly ready._) “Maarten Maartens is one of the best novel writers of this or any day.”--_Chicago Times-Herald._ “Maarten Maartens stands head and shoulders above the average novelist of the day in intellectual subtlety and imaginative power.”--_Boston Beacon._ =Her Memory.= With Photogravure Portrait. “Maarten Maartens took us all by storm some time ago with his fine story christened ‘God’s Fool.’ He established himself at once in our affections as a unique creature who had something to say and knew how to say it in the most fascinating way. He is a serious story writer, who sprang into prominence when he first put his pen to paper, and who has ever since kept his work up to the standard of excellence which he raised in the beginning.”--_New York Herald._