Imaginary sea fights are told with all the particularity of real events, and at the same time the descriptions have a breezy swing that hurries the reader along to most startling catastrophes. Much of the material is evidently worked over from actual fact into the texture of romance. The romance is evidently modern in action, but the motives are the grand and noble motives of a mysterious and splendid antiquity. The decendants of the Incas, moved by the Inca traditions, are not at all out of harmony with modern war-ships, or with a very modern war-correspondent, who is touched up a little to heroic proportions. The book is pleasurable all the way through, and some of the descriptive passages are specimens of first-class writing. The work bears every evidence of having been carefully done, and yet the story reels off as naturally and easily as if it were a running record of fact. That the general public will take to the book is a safe conclusion. It is just different enough from the ordinary, romantic novel to be essentially new. Illustrated Price, $1.50 The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN CRUCIFIXION. * * * * * THE PENITENTES By LOUIS HOW. * * * * * To describe the customs of this band of intensely religious people without laying on the color too thickly and without melodramatic exaggeration, to retain all the color and picturesqueness of the original scene without excess, was the difficult task which Mr. How had to accomplish, and it is one which he has done well.--_Chicago Record_. "The Penitentes" abounds in dramatic possibilities. It is full of action, warm color, and variety. The denouement at the little church of San Rafael, when the soldiers surprise the Penitentes at mass in the early dawn of their fete day, appeals strongly to the dramatizer.--_Chicago Tribune_. Mr. How has done a truly remarkable piece of work . . . any hand, however practiced, might well be proud of the marvelously good descriptions, the dramatic, highly unusual story, the able characterizations. If "The Penitentes" does not make its author notable it will not be for lack of every "promising" condition.--_The Interior_. 12 mo. Cloth, ornamental Price $1.50 The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis A STORY OF THE MORGAN RAID, DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. * * * * * THE LEGIONARIES By HENRY SCOTT CLARK. * * * * * "The Legionaries" is pervaded with what seems to be the true spirit of artistic impartiality. The hero, to be sure, is a secessionist, but the author, at least in this book, is simply a narrator. He stands aside, regarding with equal eye all the issues involved and the scales dip not in his hands. To sum up, the first romance of the new day on the Ohio is an eminently readable one--a good yarn well spun.--_Cincinnati Commercial Tribune_.