FOR the purpose of compiling this book Mrs. Riggs [Kate Douglas Wiggin] and her sister, Miss Smith, have explored practically the entire body of English poetry, and have spent two years in the work of selection and arrangement. The result, it is hardly necessary to say, in view of Mrs. Riggs’ well-known sympathy with the needs and interests of young life, is the greatest work ever planned to put the boys and girls of America and England in possession of the poetic heritage of their literature. The volume may well serve as a general anthology for all ages, so representative is it and so complete. And yet so skillfully has the work been done that nothing is introduced which might not serve immediately to win the attention of the young reader and to stimulate his curiosity to make independent discoveries in the broad fields that lie beyond the covers of his book. A second volume is in preparation. It will be entitled _The Posy Ring_, and will aim to interest still younger readers than those to which _Golden Numbers_ will make an appeal. By A. Conan Doyle THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES A Sherlock Holmes Novel Illustrated by Sidney Paget [Illustration] _The London Chronicle_, in a review headed “THE ZENITH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES,” says: “We should like to pay Dr. Doyle the highest compliment at our command. It is not simply that this book is superior in originality and construction to the earlier adventures of the great detective. Dr. Doyle has provided a criminal who, as Mr. Holmes admits, is indeed a foeman worthy of his steel.[A] Hitherto he has found it comparatively easy to unmask his antagonists. But in the present case he finds himself checkmated again and again. There is pitted against him a skill nearly equal to his own, and he wins the game almost by a hair.” [A] “I tell you, Watson, this time we have a foeman who is worthy of our steel.”--_Sherlock Holmes._ $1.25 By George Douglas THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS [Illustration] THE first novel of a new master. The work has gained wide-spread recognition on both sides of the water. Three of the most conservative and authoritative publications in England include it among the first twelve of the year. In this country _Harper’s Weekly_ gives it as one of the two most interesting novels of the year. _The critics differ as to with what other master George Douglas should be compared_: _The London Times_ says: “Worthy of the hand that drew ‘Weir of Hermiston,’” and that “Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would have written such a book.” _The Spectator_: “His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.” _Vanity Fair_: “It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an Æschylean tragedy.”