_Illustrated, Cloth, 12mo, $1.00 net_ This is the story of the impeachment of David Israels, President of the United States, as told by his private secretary. Instead of preparing for war to avenge the killing of four American sailors, President Israels persisted in proposals for peace, finally sending a fleet to Constantinople to celebrate some Turkish anniversary, which act brought upon him the terrible stigma. All this, it might be explained, has yet to take place, for Israels is a future president. The effect of reality is well kept up by Mr. Copley, who incidentally introduces some very wholesome truths, notably that the way to realize universal peace is to refuse even to consider the possibility of war, that moral suasion is more forceful than physical threats, and that a war resulting from mob panic and hate is only folly and wickedness. VANISHING POINTS _By ALICE BROWN_ Author of "The Secret of the Clan" _Decorated Cloth, 12mo, $1.30 net_ As a writer of delicately turned short stories, fine in their execution, Alice Brown has few equals. She is best known, perhaps, for her New England tales, and there are a number in the present collection which present the true and ever pleasing atmosphere of that part of this country. The book is not, however, composed solely of this kind of fiction. Not a few of the most interesting of the stories make their appeal because they rest on feelings, beliefs, and characteristics that are universal in human nature. One feels, as one reads of the man who thought that as so many people in this broad land must suffer from poverty and cold and hunger, he, too, should share their lot, or of the writer who, though his success did not appear to be great, was, nevertheless, influencing the work of others, or of the editor who took a stand against the unfair policy of his magazine, or of the mother who saved her son from the wiles of an adventuress, or of any, in fact, of Miss Brown's delightful characters, that the art of short fiction is at last coming into its own. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York "There is not another book like this 'Crock of Gold' in English literature. There are many books like pieces of it, but the humor and the style--these things are Mr. Stephens's own peculiar gift"--_The London Standard._ THE CROCK OF GOLD _By JAMES STEPHENS_ Author of "The Hill of Vision" _Decorated Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net_