"The style is direct and incisive, and holds the unflagging attention of the reader."--_Boston Journal._ "A powerful story, very simple, very direct."--_Chicago Evening Post._ New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. GILBERT PARKER'S BEST BOOKS. _THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY._ Being the Memoirs of Captain ROBERT MORAY, sometime an Officer in the Virginia Regiment, and afterward of Amherst's Regiment. 12mo. Cloth, illustrated, $1.50. For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero's imprisonment in Quebec. _THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD._ A Novel. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00. "Mr. Parker here adds to a reputation already wide, and anew demonstrates his power of pictorial portrayal and of strong dramatic situation and climax."--_Philadelphia Bulletin._ "The tale holds the reader's interest from first to last, for it is full of fire and spirit, abounding in incident, and marked by good character drawing."--_Pittsburg Times._ _THE TRESPASSER._ 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00. "Interest, pith, force, and charm--Mr. Parker's new story possesses all these qualities.... Almost bare of synthetical decoration, his paragraphs are stirring because they are real. We read at times--as we have read the great masters of romance--breathlessly."--_The Critic._ "Gilbert Parker writes a strong novel, but thus far this is his masterpiece.... It is one of the great novels of the year."--_Boston Advertiser._ _THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE_. 16mo. Flexible cloth, 75 cents. "A book which no one will be satisfied to put down until the end has been matter of certainty and assurance."--_The Nation._ "A story of remarkable interest, originality, and ingenuity of construction."--_Boston Home Journal._ "The perusal of this romance will repay those who care for new and original types of character, and who are susceptible to the fascination of a fresh and vigorous style."--_London Daily News._ New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. BY A. CONAN DOYLE. _THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD. A Romance of the Life of a Typical Napoleonic Soldier._ Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.