Rude and romantic characters, descriptions of lonely and picturesque Devonshire scenery, and a simple plot in which love and passion play strong parts, are part of the secret of Mr. Eden Phillpotts' very strong hold on the public. Slow-acting and slow-speaking but deep-feeling peasants play their parts in each drama amid a characteristically wild but sympathetic environment. The present powerful story shows the author at his best. The real tragedy is not in the actual murder and in the shadow of the gallows, but in the moral situation and the intense, engrossing moral struggle. Despite certain faults, each character in the story is of high mind and purpose, unselfish and deserving of respect. What might else be a gloomy theme is relieved by the minor characters. The talk of the Devonshire rustics is amusing, and every minor figure in the book is a distinct, true-to-nature character. The descriptions of external nature are done with feeling and knowledge; in this field no other living romancer equals Mr. Phillpotts. This work has some of the great qualities of serious literature--single in purpose, deep in study of motive and passion. THE WOMAN ERRANT Being Some Chapters from the Wonder Book of Barbara By the author of "The Garden of a Commuter's Wife," etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILL GREFÉ Cloth 12mo $1.50 "This clear-visioned writer, calmly surveying life from the wholesome vantage ground of a modest, contented suburban home, is not merely entertaining each year a growing number of appreciative readers, but she is inculcating in her own incisive way much of that same wise and simple philosophy of life that forms the enduring charm of the essays of Charles Wagner."--_New York Globe._ RECENT FICTION Cloth 12mo $1.50 each BARNES--THE UNPARDONABLE WAR. By JAMES BARNES, author of "Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors," "Drake and his Yeomen," etc. A queer turn in the political game; a clever scheme in Newspaper Row; a perfectly plausible invention; these are a few of the elements of interest in this absorbing story. DAVIS--FALAISE OF THE BLESSED VOICE: A Tale of the Youth of St. Louis, King of France. By WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS, author of "A Friend of Cæsar," "God Wills It," etc. A quick-moving, interesting tale of the development of the young King Louis IX of France under the stress of a great crisis. DEEPING--LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. By WARWICK DEEPING, author of "Uther and Igraine." With illustrations by W. Benda. "A vigorous story ... told in the spirit of pure romance."--_New York Evening Post._ HOUSMAN--SABRINA WARHAM: The Story of Her Youth. By LAURENCE HOUSMAN, author of "Gods and Their Makers," etc. A fascinating study of a woman's youth in one of the coast counties of England, a carefully drawn picture of ever interesting human types. LOVETT--RICHARD GRESHAM. By ROBERT MORSS LOVETT.