“Mr. Matthews is a man of wide observation and of much familiarity with the world. His literary style is bright and crisp, with a peculiar sparkle about it--wit and humor judiciously mingled--which renders his pages more than ordinarily interesting.”--_The Rochester Post-Express._ _Donald G. Mitchell._ DR. JOHNS. (12mo, $1.25.) “The author finds scenes and characters enough in a single parish to furnish the staple of the book. There are capital descriptions of parish life, home scenes, love-making, hard cases, and saintly men and women, their ways, habits; in short, all the warp and woof going to make the texture of this isolated rural life. There are few writers in this country who have ever surpassed the author in the description of rural New England life.”--_The San Francisco Bulletin._ _Fitz-James O’Brien._ THE DIAMOND LENS, with Other Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.) “These stories are the only things in literature to be compared with Poe’s works, and if they do not equal it in workmanship, they certainly do not yield to it in originality.”--_The Philadelphia Record._ _Thomas Nelson Page._ IN OLE VIRGINIA--MARSE CHAN, and Other Stories. (12mo, $1.25.) “There are qualities in these stories of Mr. Page which we do not find in those of any other Southern author, or not to the same extent and in the same force--and they are the qualities which are too often wanting in modern literature.”--_N. Y. Mail and Express._ _Howard Pyle._ WITHIN THE CAPES. (12mo, $1.00.) “Simplicity, earnestness, and directness are the appropriate qualities of a tale supposed to be reeled by an old sea captain as he sits by the chimney corner, stranded in a happy old age. The yarn proves to possess all the wonderful elements of romance and adventure.”--_The Boston Journal._ _Saxe Holm’s Stories._ FIRST SERIES.--Draxy Miller’s Dowry--The Elder’s Wife--Whose Wife Was She?--The One-Legged Dancers--How One Woman Kept Her Husband--Esther Wynn’s Love Letters. SECOND SERIES.--Four-Leaved Clover--Farmer Bassett’s Romance--My Tourmalene--Joe Hale’s Red Stocking--Susan Lawton’s Escape. _Each, 12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00._ “Saxe Holm’s’ characters are strongly drawn, and she goes right to the heart of human experience as one who knows the way. We heartily commend them as vigorous, wholesome, and sufficiently exciting stories.”--_The Advance._ _Julia Schayer._ TIGER LILY, and Other Stories. (12mo, $1.00.) “Each of the fine short stories in the present collection is original in subject and unique in treatment, and the story of ‘Tiger Lily’ is, in its way, short as it is, a masterpiece.”--_The Critic._ _Robert Louis Stevenson._