NOVELS BY HALL CAINE.
_THE MANXMAN._ 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"A story of marvelous dramatic intensity, and in its ethical meaning hasa force comparable only to Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter.'"--_BostonBeacon._
"A work of power which is another stone added to the foundation ofenduring fame to which Mr. Caine is yearly adding."--_Public Opinion._
"A wonderfully strong study of character; a powerful analysis of thoseelements which go to make up the strength and weakness of a man, whichare at fierce warfare within the same breast; contending against eachother, as it were, the one to raise him to fame and power, the other todrag him down to degradation and shame. Never in the whole range ofliterature have we seen the struggle between these forces for supremacyover the man more powerfully, more realistically delineated than Mr.Caine pictures it."--_Boston Home Journal._
_THE DEEMSTER. A Romance of the Isle of Man._ 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Hall Caine has already given us some very strong and fine work, and'The Deemster' is a story of unusual power.... Certain passages andchapters have an intensely dramatic grasp, and hold the fascinatedreader with a force rarely excited nowadays in literature."--_TheCritic._
"One of the strongest novels which has appeared in many a day."--_SanFrancisco Chronicle._
"Fascinates the mind like the gathering and bursting of astorm."--_Illustrated London News._
"Deserves to be ranked among the remarkable novels of theday."--_Chicago Times._
_THE BONDMAN._ New edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The welcome given to this story has cheered and touched me, but I amconscious that, to win a reception so warm, such a book must have hadreaders who brought to it as much as they took away.... I have called mystory a saga, merely because it follows the epic method, and I must notclaim for it at any point the weighty responsibility of history, orserious obligations to the world of fact. But it matters not to me whatIcelanders may call 'The Bondman,' if they will honor me by reading itin the open-hearted spirit and with the free mind with which they arecontent to read of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll."--_From theAuthor's Preface._
_CAPT'N DAVY'S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn._ 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth,$1.00.
"A new departure by this author. Unlike his previous works, this littletale is almost wholly humorous, with, however, a current of pathosunderneath. It is not always that an author can succeed equally well intragedy and in comedy, but it looks as though Mr. Hall Caine would beone of the exceptions."--_London Literary World._
"It is pleasant to meet the author of 'The Deemster' in a brightlyhumorous little story like this.... It shows the same observation ofManx character, and much of the same artistic skill."--_PhiladelphiaTimes._
NOVELS BY MAARTEN MAARTENS.
_THE GREATER GLORY. A Story of High Life._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS, authorof "God's Fool," "Joost Avelingh," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Until the Appletons discovered the merits of Maarten Maartens, theforemost of Dutch novelists, it is doubtful if many American readersknew that there were Dutch novelists. His 'God's Fool' and 'JoostAvelingh' made for him an American reputation. To our mind this justpublished work of his is his best.... He is a master of epigram, anartist in description, a prophet in insight."--_Boston Advertiser._
"It would take several columns to give any adequate idea of the superbway in which the Dutch novelist has developed his theme and wrought outone of the most impressive stories of the period.... It belongs to thesmall class of novels which one can not afford to neglect."--_SanFrancisco Chronicle._
"Maarten Maartens stands head and shoulders above the average novelistof the day in intellectual subtlety and imaginative power."--_BostonBeacon._
_GOD'S FOOL._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Throughout there is an epigrammatic force which would make palatable aless interesting story of human lives or one less deftly told."--_LondonSaturday Review._
"Perfectly easy, graceful, humorous.... The author's skill incharacter-drawing is undeniable."--_London Chronicle._
"A remarkable work."--_New York Times._
"Maarten Maartens has secured a firm footing in the eddies of currentliterature.... Pathos deepens into tragedy in the thrilling story of'God's Fool.'"--_Philadelphia Ledger._
"Its preface alone stamps the author as one of the leading Englishnovelists of to-day."--_Boston Daily Advertiser._
"The story is wonderfully brilliant.... The interest never lags; thestyle is realistic and intense; and there is a constantly underlyingcurrent of subtle humor.... It is, in short, a book which no student ofmodern literature should fail to read."--_Boston Times._
"A story of remarkable interest and point."--_New York Observer._
_JOOST AVELINGH._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"So unmistakably good as to induce the hope that an acquaintance withthe Dutch literature of fiction may soon become more general amongus."--_London Morning Post._
"In scarcely any of the sensational novels of the day will the readerfind more nature or more human nature."--_London Standard._
"A novel of a very high type. At once strongly realistic and powerfullyidealistic."--_London Literary World._
"Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology andsuggestion."--_London Telegraph._
"Maarten Maartens is a capital story-teller."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"Our English writers of fiction will have to look to theirlaurels."--_Birmingham Daily Post._
TWO REMARKABLE AMERICAN NOVELS.
_THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. An Episode of the American Civil War._By STEPHEN CRANE. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"Mr. Stephen Crane is a great artist, with something new to say, andconsequently with a new way of saying it.... In 'The Red Badge ofCourage' Mr. Crane has surely contrived a masterpiece.... He has painteda picture that challenges comparisons with the most vivid scenes ofTolstoy's 'La Guerre et la Paix' or of Zola's 'La Debacle.'"--_LondonNew Review._
"In its whole range of literature we can call to mind nothing sosearching in its analysis, so manifestly impressed with the stamp oftruth, as 'The Red Badge of Courage.' ... A remarkable study of theaverage mind under stress of battle.... We repeat, a really fineachievement."--_London Daily Chronicle._
"Not merely a remarkable book; it is a revelation.... One feels that,with perhaps one or two exceptions, all previous descriptions of modernwarfare have been the merest abstractions."--_St. James Gazette._
"Holds one irrevocably. There is no possibility of resistance when onceyou are in its grip, from the first of the march of the troops to theclosing scenes.... Mr. Crane, we repeat, has written a remarkable book.His insight and his power of realization amount to genius."--_Pall MallGazette._
"There is nothing in American fiction to compare with it in the vivid,uncompromising, almost aggressive vigor with which it depicts thestrangely mingled conditions that go to make up what men call war....Mr. Crane has added to American literature something that has never beendone before, and that is, in its own peculiar way, inimitable."--_BostonBeacon._
"Never before have we had the seamy side of glorious war so welldepicted.... The action of the story throughout is splendid, and allaglow with color, movement, and vim. The style is as keen and bright asa sword blade, and a Kipling has done nothing better in thisline."--_Chicago Evening Post._
_IN DEFIANCE OF THE KING. A Romance of the American Revolution._By CHAUNCEY C. HOTCHKISS. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"The whole story is so completely absorbing that you will sit far intothe night to finish it. You lay it aside with the feeling that you haveseen a gloriously true picture of the Revolution."--_Boston Herald._
"The story is a strong one--a thrilling one. It causes the true Americanto flush with excitement, to devour chapter after chapter until the eyessmart; and it fairly smokes with patriotism."--_New York Mail andExpress._
"The heart beats quickly, and we feel ourselves taking part in thescenes described.... Altogether the book
is an addition to Americanliterature."--_Chicago Evening Post._
"One of the most readable novels of the year.... As a love romance it ischarming, while it is filled with thrilling adventure and deeds ofpatriotic daring."--_Boston Advertiser._
"This romance seems to come the nearest to a satisfactory treatment infiction of the Revolutionary period that we have yet had."--_BuffaloCourier._
"A clean, wholesome story, full of romance and interestingadventure.... Holds the interest alike by the thread of the storyand by the incidents.... A remarkably well-balanced and absorbingnovel."--_Milwaukee Journal._
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