A lively, thrilling, captivating story.--_New York Times Saturday Review._ It shows power and a sense of the dramatic value of the unexpected.--_London Evening News._ A capital specimen of the Oppenheim novel, showing Mr. Oppenheim at his best.--_New York World._ By far the cleverest plot Mr. Oppenheim has invented is introduced in this story.--_Book News Monthly._ Probably excels any book yet written by this prolific and ingenious teller of stories.--_Philadelphia Press._ An ingenious and exciting mystery tale. The solution of the mystery is wholly unexpected.--_New York Sun._ Mr. Oppenheim goes forward and not backward. Each book that comes from his pen shows a superiority in plot, movement, character drawing, and literary quality over its predecessors.--_Chicago Record Herald._ Not one reader in a thousand will penetrate the secret of this murder until just before Mr. Oppenheim reveals it, for it is guarded with consummate art.... The plot is one of the best that Oppenheim has devised.--_San Francisco Chronicle._ LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON * * * * * A joyous story.--_Brooklyn Eagle._ +-------------------+ | THE ADVENTURES OF | | CHARLES EDWARD | +-------------------+ _By_ HARRISON RHODES Illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws Cloth, $1.50 The fun is genuine.--_New York Sun._ The humor is subtle and delicious.--_Boston Herald._ One long series of chuckles.--_St. Louis Globe Democrat._ A most refreshing novel, gay, amusing, and fascinating.--_London Sketch._ Nothing better in a light comedy vein has been issued this season.--_Springfield Union._ A lively, humorous story which will leave the reader with a hearty liking for its hero and heroine.--_Baltimore American._ The book is enriched by numerous illustrations of Mr. Stanlaw’s peculiarly happy and up-to-date type.--_Baltimore Sun._ Charles Edward is as pleasing a person as one could meet in many a day. He has a most unusual sense of humor and a delight in the ludicrous and the unexpected.--_The Bookman._ LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON * * * * * A fine masterpiece of French literature.--_Boston Times._ +---------------+ | THE WEIGHT OF | | THE NAME | +---------------+ _By_ PAUL BOURGET Translated by GEORGE BURNHAM IVES 12mo. Cloth. $1.50 A remarkable book.--_Providence Journal._ Easily the leader among recent works of fiction.--_New York World._ The story gains immensely in vitality over his earlier work, because he has put his heart in it.--_Outlook_, New York. There is a profound knowledge of human character that lifts this novel above the plane of ordinary fiction writing.--_Springfield Union._ The book is more than a love story of rare excellence; it is a picture of the social and political situation in the France of to-day.--_New Haven Journal and Courier._