“Faith and courage make the story of ‘Beau Brocade’ a very interesting one. The hero is delightfully fascinating--bubbling over with exuberance of youth; nothing is a hardship for him. He reminds one of Dumas’s famous D’Artagnan, and most especially in his fighting escapades. Gloriously dramatic is the fight in the forge, when, by his prowess, Beau Brocade holds at bay a lot of redcoats, escaping on his steed ‘Jack O’Lantern.’”--_N. Y. American Book Review Contest._ “The story is so well told, so full of life and action, that one never loses interest from start to finish.”--_Pittsburgh Dispatch._ “Let no one begin reading this tale late in the evening, for there is no stopping-place till the end, and the end is worth reaching.”--_The Congregationalist, Boston._ “The illustrations in color are unusually attractive.”--_Chicago Tribune._ FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHERS PHILADELPHIA When Kings Go Forth to Battle By WILLIAM WALLACE WHITELOCK _Author of “The Literary Guillotine,” etc._ A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements” find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a young prince’s hiding-place, and with characteristic American energy join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place the prince upon the throne. “A story that grasps our interest with its first chapter and causes us to follow breathlessly until the climax.”--_Baltimore Sun._ “The prettily tinted illustrations by Frank H. Desch are particularly praiseworthy.”--_Philadelphia Press._ “Told with energy and color, and it is well worth reading.”--_San Francisco Argonaut._ “Some excellent illustrations in color add to the beauty of the volume.”--_Nashville American._ THREE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY FRANK H. DESCH. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHERS :: :: :: PHILADELPHIA THE SMUGGLER By ELLA MIDDLETON TYBOUT _Author of “The Wife of the Secretary of State” and “Poketown People.”_ This is not, as the title might suggest, a tale of daring deeds on the deep, but a blithesome story of the adventures of three American girls while spending their summer vacation on a Canadian island. They become involved in a series of strange happenings by a band of clever smugglers who pose as their friends, using them as a blind in their smuggling operations. There is a pretty love story interwoven with mystery, adventure, and humor, that holds the reader’s interest from cover to cover. “The characters are mightily convincing, and the rapid-action plot makes the most indifferent reader ‘sit up’ until he has devoured the last word.”--_Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va._