Henry Clay Bean was laughing! THE END FICTION OF STRIKING QUALITY =MANY WATERS= By ELINOR CHIPP $2.00 A novel of high distinction woven around a love with a springlike beauty and the changing development of youth. =AFTER HARVEST= By CHARLES FIELDING MARSH $2.00 A powerful, finely written novel of the countryside and the people of Yorkshire, unfolding an absorbing human drama. =MOTHER MASON= By BESS STREETER ALDRICH $1.75 The life of a genuine, likable American family treated with wholesome sanity in an entertaining and refreshingly satisfying story. =A CITY OUT OF THE SEA= By ALFRED STANFORD $2.00 The author of “The Ground Swell” writes another gripping story of human emotions under the potent influence of the sea. =A WHITE STONE= By RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL $2.00 The author of “Corduroy” grows in her art in this fine romance and story of the development of character. =WALKER OF THE SECRET SERVICE= By MELVILLE DAVISSON POST $1.75 Written with Mr. Post’s distinctive skill in handling mysteries and unique for its account of the career of a train robber and the exploits of a detective. =TWENTY AND THREE STORIES= By TWENTY-THREE AUTHORS $2.50 This collection of stories of a wide range of types, by famous writers, amounts to a cross section of the finest recent work in the short story field. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London ABSORBING NEW FICTION =THE MEREDITH MYSTERY= By NATALIE SUMNER LINCOLN, author of “The Cat’s Paw,” etc. Ingenuity in constructing baffling mystery stories and skill in narrating them are characteristic of Miss Lincoln. Here is one of her best, with some new elements. The successful efforts of the blind surgeon to clear the girl he loves from a murder charge make a splendid story. =CORDUROY= By RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL, author of “Play the Game,” etc. The standards of Boston and of a California ranch shrewdly and sympathetically handled in a delicious romance full of charm and vitality. The efforts of “Ginger” and her New England lover to meet each other’s requirements result in a tense and appealing story. =MARY CINDERELLA BROWN= By DOROTHY WHITEHILL The remarkable and delightful things that happened to Mary Cinderella Brown and Peter Ashton when the ragged little girl and the rich young man happened to meet at a drama-moment. Two kinds of romance delightfully unfolded. =WALTER OF TIVERTON= By BERNARD MARSHALL, author of “Cedric the Forester.” A swift moving story of adventure and romance in the wild days when Prince John ruled England in the absence of Richard Coeur-De-Lion. A picture of life in that confused time, with a glimpse at historic characters, but a thrilling story first and last. =THE WOLF TRAIL= By ROGER POCOCK