"This story of the experiences of Evelyn Johnson, actress, may be praised just because it is so true and so wholly free from melodrama and the claptrap which we have come to think inseparable from any narrative which has to do with theatrical experiences."—_Professor Harry Thurston Peck, of Columbia University_. "Certainly written from a close and shrewd observation of stage life."—_Chicago Record-Herald_. *The Golden Dog:* A ROMANCE OF QUEBEC. By WILLIAM KIRBY. New authorized edition, printed from new plates. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy. One vol., library 12mo, cloth . . . $1.25 "A powerful romance of love, intrigue, and adventure in the times of Louis XV. and Madame de Pompadour, when the French colonies were making their great struggle to retain for an ungrateful court the fairest jewels in the colonial diadem of France. It is a most masterly picture of the cruelties and the jealousies of a maiden, Angelique des Melloises—fair as an angel and murderous as Medea. Mr. Kirby has shown how false prides and ambitions stalked abroad at this time, how they entered the heart of man to work his destruction, and particularly how they influenced a beautiful demon in female form to continued vengeances."—_Boston Herald_. *The Last Word*. By ALICE MACGOWAN. Illustrated with seven portraits of the heroine. Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top . . . $1.50 "When one receives full measure to overflowing of delight in a tender, charming, and wholly fascinating new piece of fiction, the enthusiasm is apt to come uppermost. Miss MacGowan has been known before, but her best gift has here declared itself."—_Louisville Post_. "The story begins and ends in Western Texas. Between chapters, there is the ostensible autobiography of a girl who makes her way in New York journalism. Out of it all comes a book, vivid, bright, original—one of a kind and the kind most welcome to readers of the hitherto conventional."—_New York World_. *The Captain’s Wife.* By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor." With a frontispiece by C. H. Dunton. Library 12mo, cloth decorative . . . $1.50 "Mr. Russell’s descriptions of the sea are vivid and full of color, and he brings home to the reader the feeling that he is looking upon the real thing drawn by one who has seen the scenes and writes from knowledge."—_Brooklyn Eagle_. "Every page is readable and exciting."—_Baltimore Herald_. "This story may be considered as one of the best of his excellent tales of the sea."—_Chicago Post_. "There are suggestions of Marryat in it, and reminders of Charles Reade, but mostly it is Clark Russell, with his delightful descriptions and irresistible sea yarns."—_Phila. North American_. *The Mate of the Good Ship York.* By W. CLARK RUSSELL, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. With a frontispiece by C. H. Dunton. Library 12mo, cloth decorative . . . $1.50