A writer in the _London Daily Mail_ comments on the French volumes here translated as follows:--"In 'The Market-Place,' we are with the hero in his attempt to earn his living and to conquer Paris. The author introduces us to the numberless 'society' circles in Paris and all the cliques of so-called musicians in pages of superb and bitter irony and poetic fire. Christophe becomes famous. In the next volume, Antoinette is the sister of Christophe's great friend, Olivier. She loves Christophe.... This, the best volume of the series, is a flawless gem. 'The House' introduces us to the friends and enemies of the young musician. They gravitate around Christophe and Olivier, amid the noisy and enigmatic whirl of Parisian life." It is worth adding that toward the close of this book a war-cloud appears between France and Germany. Christophe, with Olivier, visits his mother and his Fatherland. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS -- NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S JOSEPH VANCE A touching story, yet full of humor, of lifelong love and heroic sacrifice. While the scene is mostly in and near the London of the fifties, there are some telling glimpses of Italy, where the author lives much of the time ($1.75). "The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."--Lewis Melville in _New York Times Saturday Review._ "If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson,' he can find the two books in this one."--The _Independent._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S ALICE-FOR-SHORT This might paradoxically be called a genial ghost-and-murder story, yet humor and humanity again dominate, and the most striking element is the touching love story of an unsuccessful man. The reappearance in Nineteenth Century London of the long-buried past, and a remarkable case of suspended memory, give the dramatic background ($1.75). "Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan."--_Boston Transcript._ "It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, over-crowded books.... Will be remembered as Dickens' novels are remembered."--_Springfield Republican._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S SOMEHOW GOOD The purpose and feeling of this novel are intense, yet it is all mellowed by humor, and it contains perhaps the author's freshest and most sympathetic story of young love. Throughout its pages the "God be praised evil has turned to good" of the old Major rings like a trumpet call of hope. This story of to-day tells of a triumph of courage and devotion ($1.75).