Interwoven with the more solid fabric are gleaming threads of romance; and bright bits of description and glows of sentiment relieve the more sombre coloring. The memorable meeting of the French and English monarchs on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, with its gorgeous pageantry of knights and steeds and silken banners, and all the glitter and charm of chivalry, furnish material for several chapters, in which the author's descriptive powers are put to the severest test; while the Waldensian heroes in their mountain homes, resisting the persecutions of their religious foes, afford some thrilling and dramatic situations. MARTHA COREY. _A TALE OF THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT._ BY CONSTANCE GODDARD DU BOIS. 12mo, 314 pages. Price, $1.25. The same material drawn upon by Longfellow for his "New England Tragedies" is here used with greater fulness and with no less historical exactitude. The story has for its background the dark and gloomy pictures of the witchcraft persecution, of which it furnishes a thrilling view. It is remarkable for bold imagination, wonderfully rapid action, and continued and absorbing interest. In short, it is too good a piece of fiction to be accepted as truth, which is to the credit of the author's imaginative powers; for "Martha Corey" is an absorbing tale.--_Public Ledger, Philadelphia._ The story is curious and quaint, differing totally from the novels of this day; and the pictures of life among the early inhabitants of Massachusetts show that the author has been an untiring and faithful student for her work.--_Weekly Item, Philadelphia._ The characters are well delineated; the language is smooth and refined; and from frequent change of scene and character the book is rendered very entertaining. The passions, love and hate, are carefully analyzed and faithfully described. It is a valuable little book.--_Globe, Chicago._ An interesting tale of love and intrigue.... Miss Du Bois has given us a very readable book, and has succeeded where others have failed.--_Advertiser, Boston._ The story of this book is pleasantly told; and as a picture of those sad times, when some of the worst and the best, of the darkest and the brightest, of the most hateful and the most lovable traits of human nature were openly manifested, is well worth reading.--_Illustrated Christian Weekly, New York._ A story of marked strength, both of imagination and narration.--_Home Journal, New York._ THE BEVERLEYS. _A Story of Calcutta._ BY MARY ABBOTT, Author of "Alexia," etc. 12mo, 264 pages. Price, $1.25.