And Other Kentucky Tales and Romances. By JAMES LANE ALLEN. With Illustrations. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50. A careful perusal of the six tales here printed reveals and emphasizes a rare talent and a power in romantic fiction which are as rare as they are acceptable.... Our native fiction can show nothing finer in its way than these beautiful Kentucky stories, which are all the better for having a Southern flavor, and picturing an ideal side of Southern life.--_Hartford Courant._ The stories of this volume are fiction of high artistic value--fiction to be read and remembered as something rare, fine, and deeply touching.--_Independent_, N. Y. These are beautiful sketches.... Never, perhaps, has the charm of Kentucky scenery been more vividly and invitingly illustrated than in this work, and for tenderness of touch and pathetic interest few stories can equal "Sister Dolorosa." In all the tales there is a delicious spice of romance, while the artistic taste in which they are told makes them models of good story telling.--_Observer_, N. Y. Very charming stories.... "Two Gentlemen of Kentucky" is an especially delightful sketch.--_N. Y. Sun._ In these stories Mr. Allen has given us some tender and touching work, which is characteristic and unhackneyed, and of which the individual flavor is most refreshing. There is, too, a power in these tales which touches the reader.--_Boston Courier._ All the stories are unusual in character, scene, and treatment, and all will repay careful reading.--_San Francisco Chronicle._ With the temperament and sympathies of the idealist, Mr. James Lane Allen combines the fidelity to detail usually associated only with the strict adherent of realism in art, and the result is--for the reader somewhat satiated with the outpourings of conventional story-writers--a series of entirely new and grateful sensations.--_Boston Beacon._ PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. [Illustration: hand]_The above work is for sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, Canada, or Mexico, on receipt of the price._ BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. AS WE WERE SAYING. With Portrait, and Illustrated by H. W. MCVICKAR and others. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00. So dainty and delightsome a little book may it be everybody's good hap to possess.--_Evangelist_, N. Y. Who but Mr. Warner could dandle these trifles so gracefully before the mind and make their angles flash out new and hidden meanings.--_Critic_, N. Y. OUR ITALY. An Exposition of the Climate and Resources of Southern California. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Gilt Top and Uncut Edges, $2 50.