Glimpses of many fascinating figures are seen in this chronicle. The old, old social warfares of Boston and Philadelphia come out now and then amusingly. The chief character is one of the modern kings of finance—“a promoter? Not at all! He reorganizes railroads and things; one railway he has reorganized three times; and these rejuvenated concerns have been very grateful to him. He is rich beyond all decent guessing, my friend of fifty years, and I regard him as the most dangerous man in America.” So his story is told by his oldest friend, with little thrusts of grim humor; yet with a very strong and sweet undercurrent of sentiment. It has an altogether indescribable tone that is admirably in keeping with one’s mental picture of the veteran soldier and scholar who tells the tale to young “Waltham Eliot, late of Boston, who has come to settle in Philadelphia, live on law, and be honest!” But in the last analysis it is a love-story of yesterday, to-day, and forever. MRS. DARRELL By FOXCROFT DAVIS Author of “Despotism and Democracy” With Illustrations by William Sherman Potts Cloth 12mo $1.50 “Mrs. Darrell” is a penetrating bit of analysis in the form of an exceptionally good story of the social side of high political life in the national capital. Its very genuine people are sketched with a light touch, a delicacy of expression, that make the book enjoyable reading. Those who know the city well enough to recognize the unerring accuracy of even its minor details will wonder over the skill which has produced such real, interestingly varied types. It is full of highly diverting humor without a trace of satirical sting; on the contrary, its prevailing tone is refreshingly wholesome. A DARK LANTERN _A STORY WITH A PROLOGUE_ By ELIZABETH ROBINS (C. E. RAIMOND) Author of “The Magnetic North,” “Below the Salt,” etc. Cloth 12mo $1.50 This new book is one that must appeal very strongly to those who enjoy the novel of keen social analysis. Its pictures of English and continental society are as graphic, just, and authoritative as any that have appeared in fiction. One of the main characters is a young German whose rank at once excludes him from the privileges of commonplace home life and gives him the unconscious assumption of the overfêted man who has missed the tonic of hard work. Another is the young specialist in “nerves,” accurate to the verge of brutality, driven to misogyny by the trivial aggravations of encountering most often the vague indecisions he hated most. And between them stands Katharine Dereham, a character of strong, unforgettable appeal to the woman who looks on modern social life with open eyes. The Memoirs of an American Citizen