Emerson Hough has written one of the best novels that has come out of America in many a day. It is an exciting story, with the literary touch on every page.--JEANNETTE L. GILDER, of _The Critic_. In "The Mississippi Bubble" Emerson Hough has taken John Law and certain known events in his career, and about them he has woven a web of romance full of brilliant coloring and cunning work. It proves conclusively that Mr. Hough is a novelist of no ordinary quality.--_The Brooklyn Eagle._ As a novel embodying a wonderful period in the growth of America "The Mississippi Bubble" is of intense interest. As a love story it is rarely and beautifully told. John Law, as drawn in this novel, is a great character, cool, debonair, audacious, he is an Admirable Crichton in his personality, and a Napoleon in his far-reaching wisdom.--_The Chicago American._ The Illustrations by Henry Hutt 12mo, 452 pages, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ * * * * * YOUTH, SPLENDOR AND TRAGEDY FRANCEZKA By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL There is no character in fiction more lovable and appealing than is Francezka. Miss Seawell has told a story of youth, splendor and tragedy with an art which links it with summer dreams, which drowns the somber in the picturesque, which makes pain and vice a stage wonder. The book is marked by the same sparkle and cleverness of the author's earlier work, to which is added a dignity and force which makes it most noteworthy. "Here is a novel that not only provides the reader with a succession of sprightly adventures, but furnishes a narrative brilliant, witty and clever. The period is the first half of that most fascinating, picturesque and epoch-making century, the eighteenth. Francezka is a winsome heroine. The story has light and shadow and high spirits, tempered with the gay, mocking, debonair philosophy of the time."--_Brooklyn Times._ Charmingly illustrated by Harrison Fisher Bound in green and white and gold 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50 The Bobbs Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ * * * * * A BRILLIANT AND SERIOUS NOVEL CHILDREN OF DESTINY By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL Author of Francezka and The Sprightly Romance of Marsac. One of Miss Seawell's most brilliant and serious works is this novel of Old Virginia. One lives again the patrician elegance of those mannerly times with all their freedom and all their limitations. In the midst of those quiet people--some rich in worldly goods, all rich in their birth and station--is born a man with the unrest of genius. Miss Seawell's powerful delineations of this man's character, her charming presentation of the old days, her sprightly humor, playing on the foibles of these early nineteenth century aristocrats, the tenderness and beautiful love of her heroine, show her as a brilliant writer and deep thinker. In none of her other books is her art so true and her touch so poised.