We should not be surprised if this should prove to be the most popular book of the present season; it cannot fail to be one of the most remarkable.--_Literary World._ TIM: A STORY OF SCHOOL LIFE. BY LANOE FALCONER. (Author of "Mademoiselle Ixe.") It is written with cleverness and brightness, and there is so much human nature in it that the attention of the reader is held to the end.... The book shows far greater powers than were evident in "Mademoiselle Ixe," and if the writer who is hidden behind the _nom de guerre_ Lanoe Falconer goes on, she is likely to make for herself no inconsiderable name in fiction.--_Boston Courier._ CECILIA DE NOËL. BY THE REV. PROF. ALFRED J. CHURCH. Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A., has long been doing valiant service in literature in presenting his stories of the early centuries, so clear is his style and so remarkable his gift of enfolding historical events and personages with the fabric of a romance, entertaining and oftentimes fascinating.... One has the feeling that he is reading an accurate description of real scenes, that the characters are living--so masterly is Professor Church's ability to reclothe history and make it as interesting as a romance.--_Boston Times._ STORIES FROM THE GREEK COMEDIANS. ARISTOPHANES. PHILEMON. DIPHILUS. MENANDER. APOLLODORUS. _With Sixteen Illustrations after the Antique._ THE STORY OF THE ILIAD. With Coloured Illustrations. THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY. With Coloured Illustrations. THE BURNING OF ROME. BY MRS. F. A. STEEL. The story is a delightful one, with a good plot, an abundance of action and incident, well and naturally drawn characters, excellent in sentiment, and with a good ending. Its interest begins with the opening paragraph, and is well sustained to the end. Mrs. Steel touches all her stories with the hand of a master, and she is yet to write one that is any way dull or uninteresting.--_The Christian at Work._ MISS STUART'S LEGACY. BY PAUL CUSHING. ... A first-class detective story. Not a detective story of the ordinary blood-and-thunder kind, but a really good story, that is told in a vigorous and attractive way.... It is full of incident and especially good dialogue. The people in it really talk. The story is well worth reading.--_Commercial Gazette._ THE GREAT CHIN EPISODE. BY MARY A. DICKENS. Felicitous in style and simple enough in plot, it is powerfully vivid and dramatic, and well sustains the interest throughout.... There is a vein of grave pleasantry in the earlier portion of the work, which has to be abandoned as the tragic portion of it develops; but it is sufficient to show that the writer possesses the charm of pleasant recital when she wishes to exert it, as becomes her father's daughter.--_The Catholic World._ A MERE CYPHER. BY MARY WEST.