_Author of_ “_Dracula_.” “Will be one of the most popular romances, in one volume, of the season now opening. It is chiefly remarkable for the very marked and superior descriptive power displayed by the author in his rich and inspiring picture of the scenery of the Shasta Mountain.... So entirely unconventional, humorous, and bizarre, as to be quite unique.... The composition is bold and lucid.... He is an accomplished artist, and shows here at his best.... Mr. Bram Stoker will add widely to his reputation by this.”--_Irish Times._ “A pure and well-told story.”--_Glasgow Herald._ “The story is charmingly written, and deserves to be read for its brilliant open-air passages, and the portrait it contains of Grizzly Dick.”--_Daily News._ “Mr. Bram Stoker has given the reading world one of the breeziest and most picturesque tales of life on the Pacific slope that has been penned for many a long day.”--_Daily Telegraph._ “Mr. Stoker seems quite at home in picturing the wild beauty of Californian scenery.... ‘The Shoulder of Shasta’ is eminently fresh and readable.”--_Globe._ “It is a capital story.”--_Bristol Times and Mirror._ “The story is gracefully conceived, and wrought out with considerable skill.... A readable and entertaining work.”--_Scotsman._ “‘The Shoulder of Shasta’ may fairly be classed among the books to be read and enjoyed.”--_Yorkshire Post._ “A pleasant story of life in Western America.... Fresh and unconventional.”--_Publishers’ Circular._ “Mr. Bram Stoker’s new book is a peculiarly bright and breezy story of Californian life.... There is nothing laboured in this description, no straining after undue effect.... The language is simple, yet the effect is always satisfying, and the word-picture is complete.”--_Liverpool Daily Post._ “The narrative is entertaining throughout, with eloquent descriptions of scenery.”--_Academy._ “Mr. Bram Stoker’s story is unflagging, full of vigour, and capital reading from end to end; moreover, it conveys a vivid picture of life and manners in a corner of the world better known to him than to the majority of those who will read his book.”--_Standard._ The Fortune of a Spendthrift AND OTHER ITEMS BY R. ANDOM _Author of “We Three and Troddles,” “The Strange Adventures of Roger Wilkins,” etc., etc._ AND FRED HAREWOOD “Lightly, briskly, and pleasantly written.”--_Scotsman._ “The adventures of a spendthrift, which form the principal feature of the book, are related with so much dramatic force that any improbabilities of the plot are forgotten in the reader’s eagerness to learn the _dénouement_.... Treated with freshness in a pleasant, graphic style, and a lively interest is cleverly sustained.... They are all told with spirit and vivacity, and show no little skill in their descriptive passages.”--_Literary World._ “A collection of brightly-written short stories, well adapted for a holiday afternoon.”--_Globe._