BY BREAD ALONE _By I. K. Friedman_ Mr. Friedman has chosen a great theme for his new novel, one which affords a wealth of color and a wide field for bold delineation. It is a story of the steel-workers which introduces the reader to various and little-known aspects of those toiling lives. In the course of the work occurs a vivid description of a great strike. The author, however, shows no tinge of prejudice, but depicts a bitter labor struggle with admirable impartiality. Along with the portrayal of some of man’s worst passions is that of his best, his affection for woman, forming a love-story which softens the stern picture. The book will appeal to students of industrial tendencies, as well as to every lover of good fiction. (12mo, $1.50.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Here are two volumes of most thrilling tales, gleaned from the material which the age has brought us. Each collection occupies an original field and depicts some characteristic phase of our great commercial life._ WALL STREET STORIES _By Edwin Lefèvre_ It would be difficult to find a better setting for a good story than this hotbed of speculation. On the Exchange, every day is a day of excitement, replete with dangerous risks, narrow escapes, victories, defeats. There are rascals, “Napoleonic” rascals, and the “lambs” who are shorn; there is the old fight between right and wrong, and sometimes the right wins, and sometimes—as the world goes—the wrong. In the maddening whirl of this life, which he knows so well, Edwin Lefèvre has laid the setting of his Wall Street stories. A number of them have already appeared in _McClure’s Magazine_, and their well-merited success is the cause of publication in book form of this absorbing collection. (12mo, $1.25.) HELD FOR ORDERS STORIES OF RAILROAD LIFE _By Frank H. Spearman_ While railroad life affords fewer elements of passion and emotion than the life of Wall Street, it offers however a far greater field for the depiction of the heroic. Deeds of bravery are probably more common among these hardy, cool, resourceful men—the railroad employees—than among any other members of society. “Held For Orders” describes thrilling incidents in the management of a mountain division in the far West. The stories are all independent, but have characters in common, many of whom have been met with in _McClure’s Magazine_. Mr. Spearman combines the qualities of a practical railroad man with those of a fascinating storyteller, and his tales, both in subject and manner of telling, are something new in literature. (12mo, $1.50.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES