Viewed either as a delightful entertainment or as a skilful and finished piece of literary art, this is easily one of the most important of recent novels. One can not read a dozen pages without realizing that the author has mastered the magic of the storyteller’s art. After the dozen pages the author is forgotten in his creations. It is rare, indeed, that characters in fiction live and love, suffer and fight, grasp and renounce in so human a fashion as in this splendidly vital narration. With pictures by T. de Thulstrup 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50 A VIVACIOUS ROMANCE OF REVOLUTIONARY DAYS ALICE _of_ OLD VINCENNES By MAURICE THOMPSON _The Atlanta Constitution says_: “Mr. Thompson, whose delightful writings in prose and verse have made his reputation national, has achieved his master stroke of genius in this historical novel of revolutionary days in the West.” _The Denver Daily News says_: “There are three great chapters of fiction: Scott’s tournament on Ashby field, General Wallace’s chariot race, and now Maurice Thompson’s duel scene and the raising of Alice’s flag over old Fort Vincennes.” _The Chicago Record-Herald says_: “More original than ‘Richard Carvel,’ more cohesive than ‘To Have and To Hold,’ more vital than ‘Janice Meredith,’ such is Maurice Thompson’s superb American romance, ‘Alice of Old Vincennes.’ It is, in addition, more artistic and spontaneous than any of its rivals.” VIRGINIA HARNED EDITION 12mo, with six Illustrations by F. C. Yohn, and a Frontispiece in Color by Howard Chandler Christy. Price, $1.50 “NOTHING BUT PRAISE” LAZARRE By MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD Glorified by a beautiful love story.--_Chicago Tribune._ We feel quite justified in predicting a wide-spread and prolonged popularity for this latest comer into the ranks of historical fiction.--_The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._ After all the material for the story had been collected a year was required for the writing of it. It is an historical romance of the better sort, with stirring situations, good bits of character drawing and a satisfactory knowledge of the tone and atmosphere of the period involved.--_N. Y. Herald_. Lazarre, is no less a person than the Dauphin, Louis XVII. of France, and a right royal hero he makes. A prince who, for the sake of his lady, scorns perils in two hemispheres, facing the wrath of kings in Europe and the bullets of savages in America; who at the last spurns a kingdom that he may wed her freely--here is one to redeem the sins of even those who “never learn and never forget.”--_Philadelphia North American._ With six Illustrations by André Castaigne 12 mo. Price, $1.50 YOUTH, SPLENDOR AND TRAGEDY FRANCEZKA By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL There is no character in fiction more lovable and appealing than is Francezka. Miss Seawell has told a story of youth, splendor and tragedy with an art which links it with summer dreams, which drowns the somber in the picturesque, which makes pain and vice a stage wonder.