THIS is by far the most mature and important work that Mr. Harris has yet given us. Like _David Copperfield_, _Gabriel Tolliver_ is intensely personal, and is practically the story of Mr. Harris’ own boyhood experiences. In so far as its setting is concerned it is a novel of Reconstruction in the South. It is the most perfect picture in fiction of those disheartening days following the war, when the Southern States seemed likely to sink into anarchy through the corruption of the carpet-baggers. In the midst of such conditions, and the quaint, unprogressive life of the little Georgia community, Shady Dale, a beautiful study of boy and girl love is developed and carried to a happy conclusion after exciting adventures on the part of the hero, who is falsely accused of the murder of a Government agent engaged in inciting the negro population to violence against the whites. $1.50 By S. R. Crockett Author of “The Stickit Minister,” “The Black Douglas,” “The Firebrand,” etc. THE BANNER OF BLUE [Illustration] IN _The Banner of Blue_ Mr. Crockett offers a new version of that most wonderful of parables, the prodigal son. Against the sombre background of the Disruption Period in Scotland he draws with a master hand two brilliantly colored love-stories, the one intense to its tragic end, the other delightful in its quaint Scotch humor. The character-drawing possesses in particular the quality of nearness and reality, and he who reads must suffer with the proud Lord of Gower in the downfall of his idolized son, laugh with Veronica Cæsar in her philosophical bearing of domestic burdens and tyranny, and share with John Glendonwyn his love for the will-o’-the-wisp sweetheart, Faerlie Glendenning. That part of the story dealing with the separation of church and state calls forth not only the strongest but the most picturesque traits of the Scottish people. $1.50 By Mary Stewart Cutting LITTLE STORIES OF MARRIED LIFE [Illustration] MRS. CUTTING begins where other storytellers leave off. Marriage is a very general experience, and the married in actual life seem as much alive as other people; but in literature they generally pass out of any existence worth the name when the ceremony is performed. In the very heart of domesticity Mrs. Cutting finds moving crises and climaxes, perils and triumphs. Why not? Domestic affairs make or break the daily existence of most of us. Her book has a peculiarly American quality, for the American home is its field; at the same time its pages are especially rich in those touches of nature, humorous or pathetic--often humorous and pathetic--that make the whole world kin. $1.25 GOLDEN NUMBERS _A Book of Verse for Youth_ _Edited by_ KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH _with an Introduction and Little Letters on Poetry by_ KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN