With Frontispiece, 12mo, 352 pages. Price, $1.25. The scene of this thrilling story is Moscow, and the time, the boyhood of Peter the Great. Much of the action takes place “On The Red Staircase” in the palace of the Kremlin. It is a thrilling tale of intrigue and barbaric plot. A French viscount visiting Moscow on a diplomatic service is the hero; and his adventures while trying to rescue the beautiful Zenaide from a cruel uncle, who is bent upon marrying her to a profligate, are constant and of an intense order of interest.... The scenes are exciting. Escapes follow escapes. Secret missions with packets (stolen by hidden pursuers) are incidents of the plot; while sword-cuts, pinionings, attacks of all kinds, kidnapping, and desperate acts fill the pages.... The book is exciting, well sustained and excellently written.... Another “Zenda” story.--_Chicago Times-Herald._ A most vivid and absorbing tale of love and adventure.... Miss Taylor has certainly an unusual gift of vivid word painting; and as we read, we can almost see the savage mob, and feel ourselves to be in danger. “On the Red Staircase” will give a far truer, because more striking and life-like, picture of early Russian history than a multitude of laboriously written and ponderous histories of the time, and the authoress has apparently a most promising future before her.--_The Churchman, New York._ After the many problem-novels and the myriad psychological disquisitions disguised as fiction, a wholesome, breezy tale like this, honestly and brilliantly told for its own sake, is a real treat to be enjoyed without thought or criticism.--_The Bookman, New York._ A strong, bracing story it is, and one which gives us a clear view of an exceptionally interesting epoch in Russian history.--_New York Herald._ _Sold by all booksellers, or mailed, on receipt of price, by_ A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS. An Imperial Lover By M. IMLAY TAYLOR With Frontispiece. 12mo. 377 pages. Price, $1.25 Miss M. Imlay Taylor will be remembered as the author of a spirited Russian historical novel called “On the Red Staircase,” which has attained a wide reading the past year. She has now written a second novel of the same general description, called “An Imperial Lover.” Again the scene is the Russian court, this time in the reign of Peter the Great, who plays a very important part in the plot. The tale is one of love, of intrigue, and of adventure, and seems to us even better than its predecessor.--_The Outlook_, New York. The setting is admirably adapted to development under a skillful hand, and the author has succeeded in this undertaking.--_The Washington Star._ M. Imlay Taylor has the story-teller’s gift in perfection. Every word of her new Russian romance, “An Imperial Lover,” is as captivating as was every word of “On the Red Staircase.”--_The Times-Herald_, Chicago. The story abounds in exciting incidents and has no dull pages.--_The Inter-Ocean_, Chicago.