The relinquishment of his ambition was very bitter to him. He had infused into it much of the essence of his identity; it had amply promised the end for which he had rejoiced to labor; it had borne a lofty and isolated existence. And yet, as he brooded on his despoiled life, his trained mind, applied to moral discernment, could but perceive at length that it had been sheerly a technical excellence toward which he had bent his energies, a selfish end he had held in view. Without a high ennobling purpose, without a dominate hope to dispense benefit, his unsanctified ambition had only lured with a wish to rise, and despite the heights to which it had attained it had been held to earth by its own inherent weight. Works of Fiction. PUBLISHED BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 PARK ST., BOSTON; 11 E. 17TH ST., NEW YORK. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Story of a Bad Boy. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50 Marjorie Daw and Other People. 12mo. 1.50 The Same. Riverside Aldine Series. 16mo. 1.00 Prudence Palfrey. 12mo. 1.50 The Queen of Sheba. 12mo. 1.50 The Stillwater Tragedy. 12mo. 1.50 Hans Christian Andersen. Complete Works. In ten uniform volumes, crown 8vo. A new and cheap Edition, in attractive binding. The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy 1.00 The Two Baronesses 1.00 O. T.; or, Life in Denmark 1.00 Only a Fiddler 1.00 In Spain and Portugal 1.00 A Poet’s Bazaar 1.00 Pictures of Travel 1.00 The Story of my Life. With portrait 1.00 Wonder Stories told for Children. Illustrated 1.00 Stories and Tales. Illustrated 1.00 The set 10.00 William Henry Bishop. Detmold: A Romance. “Little Classic” style. 18mo. 1.25 The House of a Merchant Prince. 12mo. 1.50 Choy Susan, and other Stories. 16mo. 1.25 Björnstjerne Björnson. Works. _American Edition_, sanctioned by the author, and translated by Professor R. B. Anderson, of the University of Wisconsin. Synnöve Solbakken 1.00 The Bridal March, and Other Stories 1.00 Captain Mansana, and Other Stories 1.00 Complete Works, seven volumes in three. 12mo. The set 4.50 Alice Cary.