“Decidedly a notable addition to the few works which are of such quality to be classed as ‘books of the year.’ There are many reasons for this. First, it is an intelligent and faithful study of human life and character; second, because it has a depth of purpose rare indeed in ordinary fiction; and last, because from start to finish there is a charm which never ceases to hold the reader’s interest. Decidedly, ‘The Beth Book’ is a great book.”--_Philadelphia Item._ * * * * * HAMLIN GARLAND’S BOOKS. Uniform edition. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.25. _WAYSIDE COURTSHIPS._ “A faithful and an entertaining portrayal of village and rural life in the West.... No one can read this collection of short stories without feeling that he is master of the subject.”--_Chicago Journal._ “One of the most delightful books of short stories which have come to our notice in a long time.”--_Boston Times._ “The historian of the plains has done nothing better than this group of Western stories. Wayside courtships they are, but full of tender feeling and breathing a fine, strong sentiment.”--_Louisville Times._ _JASON EDWARDS. An Average Man._ “The average man in the industrial ranks is presented in this story in as lifelike a manner as Mr. Bret Harte presented the men in the California mining camps thirty years ago.... A story which will be read with absorbing interest by hundreds of workingmen.”--_Boston Herald._ _A MEMBER OF THE THIRD HOUSE. A Story of Political Warfare._ “The work is, in brief, a keen and searching study of lobbies and lobbyists. At least, it is the lobbies that furnish its motive. For the rest, the story is narrated with much power, and the characters of Brennan the smart wire-puller, the millionaire Davis, the reformer Turtle, and Evelyn Ward are skillfully individualized.... Mr. Garland’s people have this peculiar characteristic, that they have not had a literary world made for them to live in. They seem to move and act in the cold gray light of reality, and in that trying light they are evidently human.”--_Chicago Record._ _A SPOIL OF OFFICE. A Story of the Modern West._ “It awakens in the mind a tremendous admiration for an artist who could so find his way through the mists of familiarity to an artistic haven.... In reading ‘A Spoil of Office’ one feels a continuation of interest extending from the fictional into the actual, with no break or divergence. And it seems to be only a question of waiting a day or two ere one will run up against the characters in real life.” ALSO, _A LITTLE NORSK; or, Ol’ Pap’s Flaxen._ 16mo. Boards, 50 cents.