This notable story should appeal to a wide public through its originality of plot, its dramatic interest, and the literary charm of its description; while the dialogue never flags from start to finish. The New York of to-day is reproduced in graphic and apt scenes as it has not often been done before, with poetic appreciation for its beauties and a keen eye for its dramatic values. “The story is possessed of much literary merit, full of movement, and shows the author to be a poet as well as a master of fiction.”--_Washington Post._ “Worth reading for its own sake, on account of its deft and delicate handling of a complicated psychological case.”--_New York Mail and Express._ “A novel of first-rate dramatic quality in construction and style, and its climaxes are worked up with fine dramatic art and spirited dialogue.”--_Brooklyn Eagle._ =The Career Triumphant.= By HENRY B. BOONE, joint Author of “Eastover Courthouse’ and “The Redfield Succession.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. It is always an entertaining subject when the life of the Old Dominion is made the theme for a well-written novel, but Mr. Boone has succeeded in placing in the environment of contemporary Virginia rural life a number of delightful characters set in that environment with absolute fidelity. The social life of the present-day Virginia, with the assured sense of culture and ease that comes of its well-defined social limits, is given with perfect coloring. “Should take a prominent place among the early autumn books.”--_Boston Transcript_. “As a study of Virginians, Bourbon and reconstructed, it is accurate and entertaining.”--_Boston Advertiser._ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK * * * * * BY A. CONAN DOYLE. Uniform edition, 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 per volume. _A DUET, WITH AN OCCASIONAL CHORUS._ “Charming is the one word to describe this volume adequately. Dr. Doyle’s crisp style and his rare wit and refined humor, utilized with cheerful art that is perfect of its kind, fill these chapters with joy and gladness for the reader.”--_Philadelphia Press._ “Bright, brave, simple, natural, delicate. It is the most artistic and most original thing that its author has done.... We can heartily recommend ‘A Duet’ to all classes of readers. It is a good book to put into the hands of the young of either sex. It will interest the general reader, and it should delight the critic, for it is a work of art. This story taken with the best of his previous work gives Dr. Doyle a very high place in modern letters.”--_Chicago Times-Herald._ _UNCLE BERNAC._ _A Romance of the Empire._ “Simply clear, and well defined.... Spirited in movement all the way through.... A fine example of clear analytical force.”--_Boston Herald._ _THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD._ _A Romance of the Life of a Typical Napoleonic Soldier._