For better, or for worse, Katharine Lauderdale is Katharine Ralston, and must be left sitting behind the piano with her husband after the Van De Waters’ dinner-party. And if she is the centre of any interest, or even of any idle speculation for such as have read these pages of her history, they have not been written in vain. At all events, she has made a strange beginning in life, and almost unawares she has been near some of the evil things which lie so close to the good, at the root of all that is human. But youth does not see the bad sights in its path. Its young eyes look onward, and sometimes upward, and it passes by on the other side. THE END. * * * * * F. Marion Crawford’s Novels. NEW UNIFORM AND COMPLETE EDITION. 12mo. Cloth. $1.00 each. SARACINESCA. “The work has two distinct merits, either of which would serve to make it great,--that of telling a perfect story in a perfect way, and of giving a graphic picture of Roman society in the last days of the Pope’s temporal power.... The story is exquisitely told.”--_Boston Traveller._ SANT’ ILARIO. A Sequel to _SARACINESCA_. “A singularly powerful and beautiful story.... It fulfils every requirement of artistic fiction. It brings out what is most impressive in human action, without owing any of its effectiveness to sensationalism or artifice. It is natural, fluent in evolution, accordant with experience, graphic in description, penetrating in analysis, and absorbing in interest.”--_New York Tribune._ DON ORSINO. A Sequel to _SARACINESCA_ and _SANT’ ILARIO_. “Perhaps the cleverest novel of the year.... There is not a dull paragraph in the book, and the reader may be assured that once begun, the story of _Don Orsino_ will fascinate him until its close.”--_The Critic._ PIETRO CHISLERI. “The imaginative richness, the marvellous ingenuity of plot, the power and subtlety of the portrayal of character, the charm of the romantic environment,--the entire atmosphere, indeed,--rank this novel at once among the great creations.”--_The Boston Budget._ A TALE OF A LONELY PARISH. “It is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of its kind as this brief and vivid story.... It is doubly a success, being full of human sympathy, as well as thoroughly artistic in its nice balancing of the unusual with the commonplace, the clever juxtaposition of innocence and guilt, comedy and tragedy, simplicity and intrigue.”--_Critic._ MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. * * * * * MR. ISAACS. A Tale of Modern India. “Under an unpretentious title we have here the most brilliant novel, or rather romance, that has been given to the world for a very long time.”--_The American._ DR. CLAUDIUS. A True Story.