Colonel started, for the old madame, seeing them on the knoll, had crossed the yard to open the gate. Then, suddenly, as they went down, breaking the cello interlude of the falls, the voice of the lark, full, tender, impassioned, rose in full song. THE END. * * * * * * * * "_Oppenheim’s Latest Success_" *THE MISSIONER* By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Fully Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50 Action, excitement, and mystery are three ingredients always found in Mr. Oppenheim’s novels. His new story, "The Missioner," is the compound of love and adventure which this author so deftly produces, and his characters have more than their usual individuality. "The Missioner’s" heroine is a beautiful English woman, of the aristocratic class, rich, frivolous, and worldly. The hero is a young man of great personal magnetism, high ideals, and unused to the insincerities of society. Her fashionable amusements and his work in the slums are the antipodes from which they both move to meet on the common ground made possible by their mutual interest and appreciation. But the lady has a mystery, and the suitor has an arduous task in clearing away the complications. The book has more the air of verisimilitude than have some of Mr. Oppenheim’s previous works, and it gains in strength from the very likelihood of its happenings. It moves at a breathless rate from the country to London, to Paris and back again, and the reader’s interest keeps pace. Those who read "The Missioner" in serial form pronounced it the best story that this master of romance has yet written. * * * * * _An exceedingly clever volume_.—BOSTON GLOBE *AN ORIGINAL GENTLEMAN* _By_ ANNE WARNER Author of "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," the "Susan Clegg" books, etc. Frontispiece by Alice Barber Stephens. Cloth. $1.50 Merry reading indeed.—_New York Tribune_. All are humorous.... In none is dialect used.—_New York Sun_. The book brings out new possibilities in the author’s work and will add much to her popularity.—_Springfield Republican_. Humor and novelty of plot characterize most of the stories, and they are entirely worthy of the creator of "Susan Clegg" and "Aunt Mary."—_Syracuse Herald_. Crisply told, quaintly humorous.... Only a woman with discernment and tenderness, and only an artist could make characters live and breathe as hers do.—_Boston Transcript_. Exhibits her cleverness and her sense of humor.... Show much of that humor in the conception and that skill in droll delineation of character which first brought Anne Warner into notice with her "Susan Clegg" stories.—_New York Times_. * * * * *