This is the brightest, most sparkling book of the season, crisp as a new greenback, telling a most absorbing story in the most delightful way. There never was a book which held the reader more fascinated. _Albany Times-Union_ The best novel of the year. _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ Satire that stops short of caricature, humor that never descends to burlesque, sentiment that is too wholesome and genuine to verge upon sentimentality, these are reasons enough for liking The Man on the Box, quite aside from the fact that it is a refreshing novelty in fiction. _New York Globe_ Illustrated by Harrison Fisher 12mo, cloth, price, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ HEARTS, GOLD AND SPECULATION BLACK FRIDAY By FREDERIC S. ISHAM Author of The Strollers and Under the Rose There is much energy, much spirit, in this romance of the gold corner. Distinctly an opulent and animated tale. _New York Sun_ Black Friday fascinates by its compelling force and grips by its human intensity. No better or more absorbing novel has been published in a decade. _Newark Advertiser_ The love story is handled with infinite skill. The pictures of “the street” and its thrilling, pulsating life are given with rare power. _Boston Herald_ Illustrated by Harrison Fisher 12mo, cloth, price, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ WANTED: A COOK BY ALAN DALE An uproariously funny comedy-novel of a self-conscious couple in contact with the servant question. Their ludicrous predicaments with their cooks are described with a light, farcial quality and a satire that never fail to entertain. “A good story well told. In every sentence a hearty laugh and many an irrepressible chuckle of mirth.” _New York American_ Bound in decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ FULL OF DAINTY CHARM THE GIRL AND THE KAISER BY PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE “An amusing love story, which is certain to win instant favor. Fresh, enthusiastic, and daintily lyrical.” _Philadelphia Item_ “A charming little book, artistically made, is ‘The Girl and the Kaiser’; one that can be recommended for pleasing entertainment without reserve.” _St. Louis Globe-Democrat_ Here is a beautiful and delightfully seasonable volume that everybody will want. The story is a bubbling romance of the German imperial court with an American girl heroine. Decorated and illustrated in color by John Cecil Clay 12mo, cloth, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_