The author is singularly successful in detaching herself from all the wear and tear of modern life and has produced a book filled with sweetness, beautiful in ideas, charming in characterizations, highly contemplative, and evidencing a philosophy of life all her own. “One of the most widely read of our writers of short fiction.”--_The Bookman._ Friendship Village _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ “As charming as an April day, all showers and sunshine, and sometimes both together, so that the delighted reader hardly knows whether laughter or tears are fittest.”--_The New York Times._ The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net_ _Macmillan Fiction Library_ _12mo, $.50 net_ “It contains the sort of message that seems to set the world right for even the most depressed, and can be depended upon to sweeten every moment spent over it.”--_San Francisco Chronicle._ Friendship Village Love Stories _Decorated cloth, gilt top, 12mo, $1.50 net_ Miss Gale’s pleasant and highly individual outlook upon life has never been revealed to better advantage than in these charming stories of the heart affairs of the young people of Friendship Village. _New Macmillan Fiction_ MRS. WATTS’S NEW NOVEL Van Cleve BY MARY S. WATTS Author of “Nathan Burke,” “The Legacy,” etc. _Cloth, 12mo._ Never has the author of “Nathan Burke” and “The Legacy” written more convincingly or appealingly than in this story of modern life. Those who have enjoyed the intense realism of Mrs. Watts’s earlier work, the settings of which have largely been of the past, will welcome this book of the present in which she demonstrates that her skill is no less in handling scenes and types of people with which we are familiar than in the so-called “historical” novel. “Van Cleve” is about a young man who, while still in his early twenties, is obliged to support a family of foolish, good-hearted, ill-balanced women, and one shiftless, pompous old man, his grandmother, aunt, cousin, and uncle. Van Cleve proves himself equal to the obligation--and equal, too, to many other severe tests that are put upon him by his friends. Besides him there is one character which it is doubtful whether the reader will ever forget--Bob. His life not only shapes Van Cleve’s to a large extent, but that of several other people, notably his sister, the girl whom Van Cleve loves in his patient way. The Valley of the Moon BY JACK LONDON With Frontispiece in Colors by GEORGE HARPER _Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.35 net_