=A PROFESSOR OF ALCHEMY (Denis Zachaire).= By PERCY ROSS, Author of “A Comedy without Laughter” and “A Misguidit Lassie.” “A clever story.... The hero is an alchemist who actually succeeds in manufacturing pure gold.”--_Court Journal._ “Shadowy and dream-like.”--_Athenæum._ “An interesting and pathetic picture.”--_Literary World._ “The story is utterly tragical, and is powerfully told.”--_Westminster Review._ “A vivid picture of those bad old times.”--_Knowledge._ “Sure of a special circle of readers with congenial tastes.”--_Graphic._ “This is a story of love--of deep, undying, refining love--not without suggestions of Faust. The figure of Berengaria, his wife, is a noble and touching one, and her purity and sweetness stand out in beautiful relief from the gloom of the alchemist’s laboratory and the horrors of the terrible Inquisition into whose hands she falls. The romance of the crucible, however, is not all permeated by sulphurous vapours and tinged with tartarean smoke. There is often a highly dramatic element.”--_Glasgow Herald._ _Demy 8vo, bevelled cloth, gilt, price 10s. 6d._ =THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC: A Digest of the= Writings of Eliphas Lévi. With Biographical and Critical Essay, by ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE. _The Morning Post_ says:--“Of the many remarkable men who have gained notoriety by their proficiency, real or imaginary, in the Black Arts, probably none presents a more strange and irreconcilable character than the French magician, Alphonse Louis Constant. Better known under the Jewish pseudonym of Eliphas Lévi Zahed, this enthusiastic student of forbidden art made some stir in France, and even in London, and was frequently consulted by those who were inclined to place some credit in his reputation as a magician. His works on magic are those of an undoubted genius, and divulge a philosophy beautiful in conception if totally opposed to common sense principles. There is so great a fund of learning and of attractive reasoning in these writings that Mr Arthur Waite has published a digest of them for the benefit of English readers. This gentleman has not attempted a literal translation in every case, but has arranged a volume which, while reproducing with sufficient accuracy a great portion of the more interesting works, affords an excellent idea of the scope of entire literary remains of an enthusiast for whom he entertains a profound admiration.