"A really bright and fresh story.... The author has given happy expression in a buoyant spirit to a bit of real life of to-day."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._ "It will undoubtedly receive great attention, from the fact that it has a value wholly aside from the usual literary value of fiction. It marks an era in American literary art."--_Boston Traveller._ THE SPHINX'S CHILDREN. By ROSE TERRY COOKE. 12mo. $1.50. Delightful stories of hill-country life in the quaintest and most singular parts of New England, set forth with the sparkle and the realism of a Parisian _feuilletonist_. "In spite of a style which is carefully clear and elegant, in spite of a tone that is wonderfully pure and healthy, what one remembers longest in Mrs. Cooke's writings is these dialect passages, forgetting for their sake her delectable descriptions of quaint, old-fashioned gardens, pretty girls, odd old maids, and odder old men, and even forgetting the bit of moral usually concealed in each story."--_Boston Transcript._ _Sold everywhere. Sent, postpaid, by_ =TICKNOR AND COMPANY, Boston.= MR. HOWELLS'S LATEST NOVEL. _Sixth Edition Now Ready._ INDIAN SUMMER. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50. The "Christian Register" says that it has more of sweetness than all Howells's previous works, that its local color is exquisite, and that "the situation could not be more attractive than it is." The London "Saturday Review" says: "Around and beneath it all is the exquisite Italian atmosphere, in which no one knows better than Mr. Howells how to steep his pictures." The Chicago "Tribune" also finds this subtle characterization: "The city to which Mr. Howells leads his readers is not the revelling, brilliant Florence of Ouida. It is rather the Florence of Hawthorne,--quaint and dreamful. The story reminds one of a plant which grows in Old-World gardens,--so unobtrusive it is, and yet so rich in suggestion, so subtle-scented." The last "Lippincott's Magazine" says: "It will rank with the most charming of the author's work.... It is almost his first spiritual work. Not only has Mr. Howells thus risen above his own standards in this latest work, but he has risen above the standard of other novelists in one unique respect." * * * * * _Twelfth Thousand now ready._ THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM. By W. D. HOWELLS. $1.50. "'The Rise of Silas Lapham' invited more discussion than any serial since 'Daniel Deronda.'"--_Publisher's Weekly._ "The dust of his writings is fine gold. Delightful in its perfection."--_Philadelphia Record._ "The high-water mark of Mr. Howells's great and unique photographic genius."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "A work of genius; a great and perfect work of its kind."--_New York Star._ NEW EDITIONS OF MR. HOWELLS'S NOVELS. ($1.50 each.)