A STORY OF THE SIMPLE LIFE THE HAPPY AVERAGE By BRAND WHITLOCK Author of The 13th District and Her Infinite Variety Mr. Whitlock has done more than simply repeat his earlier success. He has achieved a new one. In The Happy Average he has voiced a deep-seated human sympathy for the unheroic. _Life_ A most delightful romance that is as fresh as the flowers of May. _Pittsburg Leader_ As an example of a good, healthy, entertaining and human story, The Happy Average must be given a place in the front rank. _Nashville American_ Not only the best book that has come from Mr. Whitlock’s pen, but a really noteworthy achievement in fiction. _Chicago Tribune_ 12mo, cloth, price, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ THE LIFE AND LOVES OF LORD BYRON THE CASTAWAY “Three great men ruined in one year--a king, a cad and a castaway.”--_Byron._ BY HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES Author of Hearts Courageous Lord Byron’s personal beauty, his brilliancy, his genius, his possession of a title, his love affairs, his death in a noble cause, all make him the most magnetic figure in English literature. In Miss Rives’s novel the incidents of his career stand out in absorbing power and enthralling force. The most profoundly sympathetic, vivid and true portrait of Byron ever drawn. Calvin Dill Wilson, author of _Byron--Man and Poet_ Dramatic scenes, thrilling incidents, strenuous events follow one another; pathos, revenge and passion; a strong love; and through all these, under all these, is the poet, the man, George Gordon. _Grand Rapids Herald_ With eight illustrations in color by Howard Chandler Christy 12mo, cloth, price, $1.00 everywhere The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ A ROMANCE OF LOVE AND POLITICS THE PLUM TREE A New Novel BY DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS Author of “The Cost,” “Golden Fleece,” Etc. In this new novel the author of “The Cost” sounds a trumpet call to American patriotism and integrity. First and last “The Plum Tree” is a love story of the highest order--interesting, ennobling, purifying. Senator Depew says: “Well written and dramatic, as might be expected from the pen of Phillips.” Senator Frye says: “A wonderful story of American political life.” Senator Beveridge says: “Plot, action, color, vitality, make ‘The Plum Tree’ thrilling.” Drawings by E. M. Ashe Bound in Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 The Bobbs-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_ “AN ADMIRABLE TALE.” THE MILLIONAIRE BABY BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Author of “The Filigree Ball” “This stirring, this absorbing, this admirable tale.” _New York Sun_ “A thrillingly sensational piece of fiction--‘The Millionaire Baby.’”