A story of decided dramatic power.--_Chicago Journal._ Written in striking brilliant style.--_New York World._ A good mystery story which is worth reading.--_Detroit News._ The story is developed with much cleverness.--_New York Times._ A remarkable novel of fashionable English life.--_New York Bookseller._ One of the season's most fascinating books. Almost every character is unusual.--_Cleveland Town Topics._ A peculiar but fascinating novel. The author wields a powerful pen and this story will produce a profound impression.--_Buffalo Courier._ The author offers a diversion quite unparalleled in fiction in the doings of a polite and exclusive circle known as "The Ghosts."--_Book Review Digest._ THE KINGDOM OF EARTH _By_ ANTHONY PARTRIDGE Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell. _A dashing tale of love and adventure_ The characters are strongly drawn and there is an absorbing love theme.--_Pittsburg Post._ Reaches thrilling climaxes and always keeps the reader's interest whetted to a razor's edge.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ A swinging, dashing story full of the excitement that keeps the reader on the qui vive.--_Cincinnati Commercial Tribune._ With a distinctly novel and ingenious plot, one involving enough of intrigue and adventure to satisfy the most exacting.--_San Francisco Argonaut._ Full of adventure, this dashing romance of a European Crown Prince and a talented American girl moves to its climax in baffling mysteries.--_Baltimore American._ More virile than the Zenda books and their imitators.... Mr. Partridge's central idea is a novel one and he has worked it out skillfully, leading the reader on from chapter to chapter with new complication and mysteries and perils and adventures growing more and more exciting.--_New York Times._ THE MAN AND THE DRAGON _By_ ALEXANDER OTIS Author of "Hearts are Trumps," etc. Illustrations by J. V. McFall. _A story of contemporary American life_ A novelist who can hold the interest equally of both women and men is an exception. Mr. Otis' first book, "Hearts are Trumps," brought him into prominence as a writer of fiction, disclosing as it did a new American author who possesses the narrative faculty and the dramatic instinct. In his new book, "The Man and the Dragon," Mr. Otis has written an even stronger story of contemporary American life. Through the center of his plot runs the glinting gold thread of a charming love story, strong, dramatic, virile. The groundwork depicts the struggle of the young editor of the _Carthage News_ against a political boss on the one hand, and a ring of traction magnates on the other, unfolding with telling penetration and grasp one of the most vital problems facing this country to-day. Those who have followed recent political events will find the defeat of political manipulators in congressional districts reflected in "The Man and the Dragon."