The impression made by reading the book is like that of witnessing a great play, its scenes are so vivid, its characters so real, its surrounding horizon so picturesque, its setting so rich and varied.--_Philadelphia Item._ =Sielanka: a Forest Picture, and Other Stories.= By HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ, author of "Quo Vadis," "With Fire and Sword," etc. Translated from the Polish by JEREMIAH CURTIN. Uniform with the other volumes of the Library Edition of Sienkiewicz. Crown 8vo. $2.00. This new volume by the most popular writer of the time includes the shorter stories which have not before been published in the uniform Library Edition, rendering it the only complete edition of his works in English. It comprises six hundred pages, and contains the following stories, dramas, etc.: Sielanka, a Forest Picture; For Bread; Orso; Whose Fault, a Dramatic Picture in One Act; On a Single Card, a Play in Five Acts; The Decision of Zeus; Yanko the Musician; Bartek the Victor; Across the Plains; The Diary of a Tutor in Poznan; The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall; Yamyol (Angel); The Bull Fight; A Comedy of Errors; A Journey to Athens; Zola. Under the seventeen titles one finds almost as many aspects of the genius of Sienkiewicz. Detached from the intricacies of an elaborate composition, figures, scenes, and episodes become far more effective.--_New York Times._ =In Vain.= By HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ. Translated from the Polish by JEREMIAH CURTIN. 16mo. Cloth, extra. $1.25. A love story of modern Poland, by the author of "Quo Vadis," not before translated. The scene is laid at Kieff, and university life there is described. =The Story of Gösta Berling.= Translated from the Swedish of SELMA LAGERLÖF, by PAULINE BANCROFT FLACH. 12mo. Cloth, gilt. $1.75. When "Gösta Berling" was first published in Sweden a few years ago, Miss Lagerlöf immediately rose into prominence, and, as Mr. E. Nesbit Bain writes in the October "Cosmopolis," "took the Swedish public by storm." The sagalike treatment and almost lyric mood of "The Story of Gösta Berling" render its form in keeping with the unusual character of the book itself. The harshness of Northern manners enables Miss Lagerlöf to probe human life to its depths; and with the effect of increasing the weird power of the whole, a convincing truth to nature is intermingled with the wild legends and folk-lore of Värmland. There is hardly a page that does not glow with strange beauty, so that the book exerts an unbroken charm from beginning to end.--_The Bookman._ Something Homeric in its epic simplicity runs through the history of the deposed priest. The opening chapters engage the attention at once by their mystic realism.--_Time and the Hour._