NEW YORK TIMES:—“Mr. Robert W. Chambers does not have a system to work up to; he has no fad, save a tendency to write about the marvelous and the impossible; painting pictures of romance that have a wild inspiration about them. Descriptive powers of no mean quality are perceptible in this volume of stories.” THE N. Y. WORLD:—“Mr. Chambers has a great command of words; he is a good painter. His situations are most delicately touched, and some of his descriptions are exquisite. He writes like an artist. He uses colors rather than ideas.... The best drama in the volume means madness. The tenderest fancy is a sad mirage.... ‘The King in Yellow’ is a very interesting contribution to the present fund of materio-mysticism.... To read Mr. Chambers’ little book is to escape from the actual on poetical wings.” MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE:—“They have a mysterious eerie air about them that is apt to stimulate the reader’s curiosity.” PHILADELPHIA TIMES:—“Charming, delicate, skilful, vivid.” PHILADELPHIA ITEM:—“Expected to make a sensation, charming, full of color and delicately tinted.” CLEVELAND GAZETTE:—“It is wondrous strong, dramatic, full of color, weird, uncanny, picturesque, and yet a gem of exquisite coloring, dreamy, symbolic, exciting.” PAOLA CORLETTI, THE FAIR ITALIAN. By ALICE HOWARD HILTON, Author of “A Blonde Creole.” Neely’s Popular Library, paper 25c. This is a charming romance of life in Italy and New Orleans—of a pretty Italian maid, daughter of a Neapolitan nobleman, who elopes with the lover of her choice, a poor musician, and being hounded by the emissaries of a disappointed suitor, in conjunction with her angry father, they start for America, settling in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans. The story is sweet and pure, and full of exceeding pathos—the descriptive bits of old New Orleans, with its Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral, opposite, are clever pictures of the Creole City of the past. Since Cable has ceased his admirable novels of these interesting people, the public will undoubtedly welcome an addition to Creole literature from the pen of one so thoroughly conversant with the subject as Mrs. Hilton. For sale everywhere, or sent post-paid on receipt of price. F. TENNYSON NEELY, Publisher, 96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult, by Clara H. Holmes