“‘The Lake’ is a work of art, a prose poem embroidered in psychological colors, a mirror of realism reflecting the soul struggle of the priest who by a slow intellectual process is brought face to face with the meaning of life. It is as far above the average fiction of the hour as the sun-kissed mountain peaks are above the hum-drum valleys.”—_St. Paul Pioneer-Press._ “The style has the simplicity and transparency that betoken the accomplished craftsman in words and the author’s feeling for nature is expressed as admirably as his feelings for art and life. We doubt if Mr. Moore has ever done a better piece of writing.”—_The Dial._ “This novel with its delicate symbolism, its original style of presentation, its gray-green coloring, and its subtle psychologizing, recalls a modern symphonic poem. The style is most musical, fitting the theme glove-like. Event glides into event without a jar; the illusion is never shivered by awkward chapter-ends or conventional sequences of action. The writer is a master of his material as well as a prober of the human heart.”—JAMES HUNEKER _in the New York Times_. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Evelyn Innes. Cloth, $1.50. “The marvelously artistic analysis of the inner life of this remarkable woman exercises a peculiar fascination for cultivated people.... It seems as if one could pass over no single sentence without losing something.... The appeal of the book is to the class of people best worth writing for, cultivated, intellectual people, who can appreciate something better than the commonplace stories which invariably come out right. Its literary quality is high; there are very fine things about it, and one feels that ‘Evelyn Innes’ is the work of a master.”—_Boston Herald._ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. End of Project Gutenberg's The House of Islâm, by Marmaduke Pickthall