"The gallant captain has all a soldier's generous enthusiasm for lovely women and the delights of a cosey, love-lit home, and his heroines are all sweet, wholesome women that do honor to his heart and pen."--_Germantown Telegraph._ "Captain King has a quick and sentient touch, and his writing is that of one whose belief in mankind is untouched by bitterness. One reads his tales with the satisfying sense of a cheerful solution of all difficulties on the final page. It is a relief, indeed, to turn from the dismal introspection of much of our modern fiction to the fresh naturalness of such stories as these."--_New York Critic._ "He tells his stories with so much spirit that one's interest is maintained to the end. The character studies are good and the plot cleverly developed."--_New York Book-Buyer._ * * * * * American Novels, No. 2. BRUETON'S BAYOU, By John Habberton, author of "Helen's Babies," AND MISS DEFARGE, By Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's." "A good book to put in the satchel for a railway trip or ocean voyage."--_Chicago Current._ "In every way worthy of the best of our American story-writers."--(Washington) _Public Opinion._ "It is safe to say that no two more charming stories were ever bound in one cover than these."--_New Orleans Picayune._ "'Brueton's Bayou' is an excellent tale, the motive of which is apparently to instil into the haughty insularity of the New York mind a realizing sense of the intellectual possibilities of the South-west. The smug and self-satisfied young New York business-man, who is detained by the lameness of his horse at Brueton's Bayou, and there presently meets his fate in the form of a brilliant and beautiful girl of the region, has the nonsense taken out of him very thoroughly by his Southern experiences. 'Miss Defarge' is a strong study of a very resolute and self-centred young woman, who accomplishes many things by sheer force of will. But the most interesting and charming figure in it is that of Elizabeth Dysart, the blonde beauty, a kind of modernized Dudu,--'large and languishing and lazy,'--but of a sweetness of temper and general lovableness not to be surpassed."--_New York Tribune._ * * * * * American Novels, No. 4. A DEMORALIZING MARRIAGE By Edgar Fawcett, author of "Douglas Duane," "A Gentleman of Leisure," etc. "The plot is cleverly arranged, the action lively, the dialogue sweet, and the story bright and well sustained."--_New York Tribune._ "Edgar Fawcett still stands at the head of society novelists, as his latest story testifies. It deals with society life in New York in a brilliant and realistic manner, and if it is at times satirical, the author has just grounds for employing this spice."--_Boston Home Journal._