The uncommonly favorable reception of Mrs. Abbott's brilliant novelette, "Alexia," by the public bespeaks in advance a lively interest in her new novel, "The Beverleys." It is a more extended and ambitious work than the former, but has the same grace of style and liveliness of treatment, together with a much more considerable plot and more subtle delineations of character and life. The action of the story takes place in India, and reveals on the part of the authoress the most intimate knowledge of the official life of the large and aristocratic English colony in Calcutta. The local coloring is strong and unusual. A more joyous story cannot be imagined.... A harum-scarum good-nature; a frank pursuit of cakes and ale; a heedless, happy-go-lucky spirit, are admirable components in a novel, however trying they may be found in the walks of daily life. Such are the pleasures of "The Beverleys." To read it is recreation, indeed.--_Public Ledger, Philadelphia._ The author writes throughout with good taste, and with a quick eye for the picturesque.--_Herald, New York._ It is a pretty story, charmingly written, with cleverly sketched pictures of various types of character.... The book abounds in keen, incisive philosophy, wrapped up in characteristic remarks.--_Times, Chicago._ An absorbing story. It is brilliantly and vivaciously written.--_Literary World, Boston._ The author has until now been known, so far as we are aware, only by her former story, "Alexia." Unless signs fail which seldom _do_ fail, these two with which her name is now associated are simply the forerunners of works in a like vein of which American literature will have reason to be proud.--_Standard, Chicago._ THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS. _A ROMANCE OF INDIAN OREGON._ By F. H. BALCH. 12mo, 280 pages. Price, $1.25. This is a masterly and original delineation of Indian life. It is a strong story, charged with the elemental forces of the human heart. The author portrays with unusual power the intense, stern piety of the ministers of colonial New England, and the strange mingling of dignity, superstition, ferocity, and stoicism that characterized the early Indian warriors.