The plot is absorbing and well concealed; the reader goes breathlessly from page to page, eagerly wondering what the denouement will be.... The story rotates around Daphne Leslie, a charming young woman, and is replete with thrilling situations.—_Public Opinion._ A story of tragedy and love, told in such a manner that the interest of the reader is held from beginning to end, and yet it does not partake of the undue excitement common to novels of this class.—_Minneapolis Times._ Leads the reader through a maze of mystery and adventure which holds his imagination in a close grip from the very beginning.—_Brooklyn Eagle._ Of pronounced originality and written in a terse, clear-cut style. Having yielded in the least degree to the spell of the story, one is compelled to follow its development to the very end.—_Chicago Daily News._ LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON _Grips and Holds the Reader_ A LOST LEADER _By_ E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Author of “The Malefactor,” etc. Fully Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 For his latest hero, Mr. Oppenheim has taken a modern leader who has elected to stand aloof from the conflict of the political world, but he has created a strong, distinct personality, and not merely exploited one already familiar. “A Lost Leader” is as fascinating a story of modern life as novelist has yet conceived, and one that arrests the mind by its fine strenuousness of purpose. An admirably woven story. The reader will follow its every phase with absorbed interest.—_London Morning Advertiser._ The characters are all capitally drawn, and the story is developed with all the skill and power of a born dramatist.—_The Northern Whig._ Full of originality and interest from first to last.—_London Daily Graphic._ A highly attractive story, with an ingenious plot and daringly up-to-date.—_Newcastle Daily Chronicle._ His stories thrill with human interest.—_Milwaukee Sentinel._ LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON