[***] The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of "Nous Autres." They represent, collectively, the professions open to women of no deliberate training, though well-educated. They are introduced to the reader at one of their weekly gatherings and then the author proceeds to depict the home and business life of each one individually. Tropical Tales [***] A collection of short stories dealing with "all sorts and conditions" of men and women in all classes of life; some of the tales sounding the note of joy and happiness; others portraying the pathetic, and even the shady side of life; all written in the interesting manner characteristic of the author. The Riding Master. _Cloth. 12mo. $1.50_ _An American Love-Story_ MARGARITA'S SOUL BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON [INGRAHAM LOVELL] Profusely Illustrated. Sixteen full-page half-tone illustrations. Numerous line cuts, reproduced from drawings by J. Scott Williams. Also Whistler Butterfly Decorations. _Cloth. 12mo. $1.50_ "Filled with imaginative touches, resourceful, intelligent and amusing. An ingenious plot that keeps the interest suspended until the end, and has a quick and shrewd sense of humor."--_Boston Transcript._ "A reviewer would hesitate to say how long it is since a writer gave us so beautiful, so naive, so strangely brought up and introduced, a heroine. It is to be hoped that the author is already at work on another novel."--_Toronto Globe._ "May cause the reader to miss an important engagement or neglect his business. A love story of sweetness and purity touched with the mythical light of Romance and aglow with poetry and tenderness. One of the most enchanting creatures in modern fiction."--_San Francisco Bulletin._ "It is extremely entertaining from start to finish, and there are most delightful chapters of description and romantic scenes which hold one positively charmed by their beauty and unusualness."--_Boston Herald._ "Sentimental, with the wholesome, pleasing sentimentality of the old bachelor who has not turned crusty.... A Thackerayan touch."--_New York Tribune._ "Captures the imagination at the outset by the boldness of the situation.... We should be hard put to it to name a better American novel of the month."--_The Outlook._ ANATOLE FRANCE "Anatole France is a writer whose personality is very strongly reflected in his works.... To reproduce his evanescent grace and charm is not to be lightly achieved, but the translators have done their work with care, distinction, and a very happy sense of the value of words."--_Daily Graphic._ "We must now all read all of Anatole France. The offer is too good to be shirked. He is just Anatole France, the greatest living writer of French."--_Daily Chronicle._