In this book, the heroine, being suddenly reduced to poverty, refuses an offer of marriage, because she thinks it comes from the condescension of pity rather than from the inspiration of love. She determines to earn her living, becomes a governess, then writes a book, which is successful, and inherits a fortune from a distant relative. Then she marries the man--But let us not tell the story. The author has told it in a charming way. LEE AND SHEPARD, BOSTON, SEND THEIR COMPLETE CATALOGUE FREE. LEE AND SHEPARD'S POPULAR FICTION Nelly Kinnard's Kingdom. By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS. Price, cloth, $1.50. Popular edition, $1.00. "Nelly Endicott, a bright, lively girl, marries Dr. Kinnard, a widower with two children. On going to her husband's home, she finds installed there a sister of his first wife (Aunt Adelaide, as she is called by the children), who is a vixen, a maker of trouble, and a nuisance of the worst kind. Most young wives would have had such a pest put out of the house, but Nelly endures the petty vexations to which she is subjected, in a manner which shows the beauty and strength of her character. How she surmounted the difficulty, it would not be fair to state."--_New York Evening Mail._ From Hand to Mouth. By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS. Price, $1.50. Popular edition, $1.00. "This is a thoroughly good, true, pure, sweet, and touching story. It covers precisely those phases of domestic life which are of the most common experience, and will take many and many of its readers just where they have been themselves. There is trouble in it, and sorrow, and pain, and parting, but the sunset glorifies the clouds of the varied day, and the peace which passes understanding pervades all. For young women whose lives are just opening into wifehood and maternity, we have read nothing better for many a day."--_Literary World._ A Modern Adam and Eve in a Garden. By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS. Price $1.50. Bright, amusing, and sensible. A story of two people who set out to win their share of the world's wealth, and how they did it; which, as a critic says, "is rather jolly and out-of-door-y, and ends in a greenhouse,"--with some love and pathos, of course, and much practical knowledge. The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe. By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS. Price $1.50. This is not a child's story, nor a comic view of household life,--as some might think from its title--but a domestic novel, full of the delights of home, of pure thoughts, and gentle virtues. It has also sufficient complications to keep the thread of interest _drawn_, and to lead the reader on. Among Miss DOUGLAS' many successful books, there is none more beautiful or attractive, or which leaves a more permanent impression. Claudia. By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS. Price, $1.50. Popular edition, $1.00. This is a romantic story, with abundant incidents and strong situations. The interest is intense. It concerns two half sisters, whose contrasted character and complicated fortunes are the charm of the book.