"'Ernestine' is a work of positive genius. An English critic has likened the conception of the heroine in her childhood to George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver, and truly there is a certain resemblance; but there is in the piece a much stronger suggestion of George Eliot's calm mastery of the secret springs of human action, and George Eliot's gift of laying bare the life of a human soul, than of likeness between particular characters or situations here and those with which we are familiar in George Eliot's works."--_New York Evening Post._ * * * * * =THE HOUR WILL COME.=--A Tale of an Alpine Cloister, by =Wilhelmine von Hillern=, from the German by Clara Bell, in one vol. Paper, 40 cts. Cloth, 75 cts. "'_The Hour Will Come_' is the title of a translation by Clara Bell from the German original of Wilhelmine von Hillern, author of that beautiful romance 'Geier-Wally.' 'The Hour Will Come' is hardly less interesting, its plot being one of the strongest and most pathetic that could well be imagined. The time is the Middle Ages, and Frau von Hillern has achieved a remarkable success in reproducing the rudeness, the picturesqueness and the sombre coloring of those days. Those who take up 'The Hour Will Come' will not care to lay it down again until they have read it through."--_Baltimore Gazette._ * * * * * =HIGHER THAN THE CHURCH.=--An Art Legend of Ancient Times, by =Wilhelmine von Hillern=, from the German by Mary J. Safford, in one vol. Paper, 25 cts. Cloth, 50 cts. * * * * * "Mary J. Safford translates acceptably a very charming short story from the German of Wilhelmine von Hillern. If it was not told by the sacristan of Breisach, it deserves to have been. It has the full flavor of old German and English love tales, such as have been crystallized in the old ballads. The Emperor, the gifted boy, his struggles with the stupidity of his townsmen, his apparently hopeless love above him; these form the old delightful scene, set in a Düreresque border. There are touches here and there which refer to the present. The sixteenth century tale has a political moral that will appeal to Germans who believe that Alsatia, once German in heart as well as in tongue, ought to be held by force to the Fatherland till she forgets her beloved France."--_N. Y. Times._ _William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, New York._ * * * * * =ASPASIA.=-A Romance, by =Robert Hamerling=, from the German by Mary J. Safford, in two vols. Paper, $1.00. Cloth, $1.75.