That night Lisbeth sat up until one o’clock, writing a long letter to Georgie Esmond, and trying, in a strangely softened and penitent mood, to be open and straightforward for once. “I am going to marry Hector Anstruthers, and try to be better,” she wrote. “You know what I mean, when I say ‘better.’ I mean that I want to make Lisbeth Anstruthers a far different creature from Lisbeth Crespigny. Do you think I ever can be a ‘good’ woman, Georgie--like you and your mother? If I ever am one, it will be you two whom I must thank.” And as she wrote this, she shed not unhappy tears over it. “Perhaps,” she said, “Love will make me as tender as other women.” And this Love did. DR. EGGLESTON’S NEW STORY. “One of the ablest of recent American novels, and indeed of all recent works of fiction.”--LONDON SPECTATOR. ROXY. BY EDWARD EGGLESTON, Author of “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” “Circuit Rider,” Etc. One volume, 12mo, cloth, with Twelve full-page Illustrations from original designs by Mr. Walter Shirlaw. Price, $1.50. CRITICAL NOTICES. “‘Roxy’ may be accepted as the latest example of a purely American novel, and to say the least, one of the very best.”--_New York Tribune._ “In this novel Mr. Eggleston’s powers appear at their best and amplest, and he has accomplished the by no means easy task of excelling himself.”--_Boston Journal._ “There can be no doubt whatever that ‘Roxy’ is the best product of Dr. Eggleston’s activity in the field of fiction.”--_New York Eve. Post._ “As a pure, but vigorous American romance, Mr. Eggleston’s new work is better even than his ‘Hoosier Schoolmaster’ and ‘Circuit Rider.’”--_Phila. Eve. Bulletin._ “It strengthens the author’s position as a writer who has brought new life and a decided manliness into our native fiction.”--_Boston Courier._ “‘Roxy,’ a story whose purport and power are much deeper than the author has before reached.”--_Springfield Republican._ “The story is powerfully told, and if Mr. Eggleston had written nothing else, ‘Roxy’ would place him in a foremost position among American authors.”--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._ “Its pictures of Western life are vivid, and throughout betray the hand of a master in literature and fiction.”--_Episcopal Register._ “As a faithful picture of American life, it ranks far above any novel published in the United States during the past twenty years.”--_Brooklyn Times._ “We advise our readers to buy and read ‘Roxy.’ They will find the plot deeply interesting, and will gather from it not only transient pleasure, but permanent good.”--_Louisville Post._ “The story of ‘Roxy’ is Dr. Eggleston’s best work. It attains a higher merit than his other works in epic purpose as well as a dramatic form.”--_The Methodist._ “Buy the book and read it, as it is well worth the time spent to do it.”--_Washington Chronicle._