"A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome, sun-shiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our notice."--_New York Times._ "The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places 'The Lilac Sunbonnet' among the best stories of the time."--_New York Mail and Express._ "In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is a pastoral, an idyl--the story of love and courtship and marriage of a fine young man and a lovely girl--no more. But it is told in so thoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate fancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be desired."--_Boston Traveller._ * * * * * New York: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. _THE STATEMENT OF STELLA MABERLY._ By F. ANSTEY, author of "Vice Versa," "The Giant's Robe," etc. 16mo. Cloth, special binding, $1.25. "Most admirably done.... We read fascinated, and fully believing every word we read.... The book has deeply interested us, and even thrilled us more than once."--_London Daily Chronicle._ "A wildly fantastic story, thrilling and impressive.... Has an air of vivid reality,... of bold conception and vigorous treatment.... A very noteworthy novelette."--_London Times._ _MARCH HARES._ By HAROLD FREDERIC, author of "The Damnation of Theron Ware," "In the Valley," etc. 16mo. Cloth, special binding, $1.25. "One of the most cheerful novels we have chanced upon for many a day. It has much of the rapidity and vigor of a smartly written farce, with a pervading freshness a smartly written farce rarely possesses.... A book decidedly worth reading."--_London Saturday Review._ "A striking and original story,... effective, pleasing, and very capable."--_London Literary World._ _GREEN GATES. An Analysis of Foolishness._ By Mrs. K. M. C. MEREDITH (Johanna Staats), author of "Drumsticks," etc. 16mo. Cloth, $1.25. "Crisp and delightful.... Fascinating, not so much for what it suggests as for its manner, and the cleverly outlined people who walk through its pages."--_Chicago Times-Herald._ "An original strain, bright and vivacious, and strong enough in its foolishness and its unexpected tragedy to prove its sterling worth."--_Boston Herald._ _AN IMAGINATIVE MAN._ By ROBERT S. HICHENS, author of "The Folly of Eustace," "The Green Carnation," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. "A study in character.... Just as entertaining as though it were the conventional story of love and marriage. The clever hand of the author of 'The Green Carnation' is easily detected in the caustic wit and pointed epigram."--_Jeannette L. Gilder, in the New York World._