A distinct and extremely pleasing innovation is this collection of four new stories by America’s foremost woman fiction writer. Each tells a separate story, but the four cover successive periods in the life of old New York. The society of New York’s earlier days lives again in these four books by _EDITH WHARTON_ =FALSE DAWN= _The ’Forties_ The son of an old New York family comes under artistic influences from abroad and acquires tastes and opinions which the New York of the ’Forties can neither understand nor tolerate. =THE OLD MAID= _The ’Fifties_ Beneath the outwardly respectable fabric of old New York runs this powerfully appealing and dramatic story of two sisters and the daughter of one of these women. =THE SPARK= _The ’Sixties_ A study in influences. The central character is strangely out of tune with his surroundings. As is finally disclosed, this is because he had come under the influence of a great man, a herald of a later time. =NEW YEAR’S DAY= _The ’Seventies_ The poignant story of Lizzie Hazeldean, ostracized from her social sphere because the New York of the ’Seventies could not comprehend the sacrifice she had made for her husband. _Each $1.25. The four, in ornamental period gift box, $5.00_ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London EDITH WHARTON’S THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Awarded the $1,000 Pulitzer Prize by Columbia University in June, 1921, as “the American novel published during the year which best presented the wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood.” “The best piece of fiction of the present season.”--_The Outlook._ “Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name of America, and this is her best book. A consummate work of art. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature.”--William Lyon Phelps in the _New York Times Book Review_. “A fine novel, beautifully written, ‘big’ in the best sense. A credit to American literature.”--Henry Seidel Canby in the _New York Evening Post_. “Of this American generation Edith Wharton is unquestionably the novelist foremost in intellectual distinction.”--_The Philadelphia North American._ “A work of surpassing art.”--_The Philadelphia Public Ledger._ “Edith Wharton has proved herself again a superb novelist.”--_The Chicago Tribune._ “‘The Age of Innocence’ is by all odds the great novel of the year.”--_The Christian World._ “Mrs. Wharton has written a brilliant novel. Her picture of a place and period is extraordinarily fascinating.”--Heywood Broun in the _New York Tribune_. “Mrs. Wharton has added another victory to her varied triumphs in the field of fiction.”--_The Atlantic Monthly._ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON =THE AGE OF INNOCENCE=