+———————————————————————————————+ | The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the | | Macmillan novels. | +———————————————————————————————+ _NEW MACMILLAN FICTION_ The Research Magnificent BY H. G. WELLS Author of “The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman,” etc. _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50_ _The Research Magnificent_ is pronounced by those critics who have read it to be the best work that Mr. Wells has done, realizing fully the promises of greatness which not a few have found in its immediate predecessors. The author’s theme—the research magnificent—is the story of one man’s search for the kingly life. A subject such as this is one peculiarly suited to Mr. Wells’s literary genius, and he has handled it with the skill, the feeling, the vision, which it requires. “It has been over a month since _The Research Magnificent_ came from the press. In that month the book has been reviewed from one end of the country to the other, but I have not written anything about it for the good reason that I have been all of this time reading it, a little at a time, with much thought spent between the sentences, with all sorts of comments and memories and injunctions crying to be written in the margins and with the towering immensity of the thing awing me into either an incoherence of superlatives or silence. I have waited for the clarity of impression that comes with the closing of the covers of a book that has marked an epoch in my literary life.... _The Research Magnificent_ is a book whose intensity of influence will be immeasurable in the lives of those who read it. It is enthralling in its sheer literary magnificence.” _Fannie Butcher in the Chicago Tribune._ The Star Rover BY JACK LONDON Author of “The Call of the Wild,” “The Sea Wolf,” “The Mutiny of the Elsinore,” etc. With frontispiece in colors by Jay Hambidge. _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50_ Daring in its theme and vivid in execution, this is one of the most original and gripping stories Mr. London has ever written. The fundamental idea upon which the plot rests—the supremacy of mind over body—has served to inspire writers before, but rarely, if indeed ever, has it been employed as strikingly or with as much success as in this book. With a wealth of coloring and detail the author tells of what came of an attempt on the part of the hero to free his spirit from his body, of the wonderful adventures this “star rover” had, adventures covering long lapses of years and introducing strange people in stranger lands. “Jack London has done something original in the _Star Rover_, and done it supremely well.” —_New York Times._ Old Delabole