nothing else; the travelling bands of gypsies, ever changing, but never failing with the dance, the song and the music, which was as indispensable as salt to the life of that motley population. “The story is largely historical, both German and English elements entering into it. The scene changes from the old castle of Tollendahl to an English country house and London club, always maintaining its old world flavor.” “The tale is gracefully told, and owing partly to this fact and to the novelty of the setting given to Basil Jennico’s amazing experience, it gains for itself a place apart.... It is an artistic production and it is original.”—_The York Tribune._ “One of the newest and best novels of the decade.”—_The Budget_ (Boston). “No such piece of inimitable comedy, in a literary way, has appeared for years.”—_The Inter-Ocean_ (Chicago). -------------- THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Chicago Boston San Francisco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CROWNED BY THE LONDON ACADEMY as one of the three most important books published during the year 1898 -------------- THE FOREST LOVERS By MAURICE HEWLETT _Author of “Earth Works out of Tuscany,” “Pan and the Young Shepherd,” etc._ Cloth. 12mo. $1.50 -------------- JAMES LANE ALLEN says: “This work, for any one of several solid reasons, must be regarded as of very unusual interest. In the matter of style alone, it is an achievement, an extraordinary achievement ...; in the matter of interpreting nature there are passages in this book that I have never seen surpassed in prose fiction.” HAMILTON W. MABIE says: “The plot is boldly conceived and strongly sustained; the characters are vigorously drawn and are thrown into striking contrast.... It leads the reader far from the dusty highway; it is touched with the penetrating power of the imagination; it has human interest and idyllic loveliness.”—_Book Reviews._ The New York Tribune says: “A series of adventures as original as they are romantic.... ‘The Forest Lovers’ is a piece of ancient arras; a thing mysteriously beautiful, a book that is real and at the same time radiant with poetry and art. ‘The Forest Lovers’ will be read with admiration and preserved with something more than respect.” The Outlook calls it: “A story compounded of many kinds of beauty. It has, to begin with, enchanting beauty of background; or rather, it moves through a beautiful world, the play of whose light upon it is subtle, beguiling, and magical.” --------------