Pacific Tales
By LOUIS BECKE, author of "By Reef and Palm," etc. With frontispiecephotogravure Portrait of the Author and several illustrations. Crown8vo, green cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
The volume consists of the following: An Island Memory, The South SeaSavant, In the Old Beach-Combing Days, Miss Malleson's Rival, Prescottof Naura, Chester's "Cross," Hollis's Debt: a tale of the NorthwestPacific, The Arm of Luno Capal, In a Samoan Village, the"Black-Birdes," In the Evening, The Great Crushing at Mount Sugar-Bag:a Queensland Mining Tale, The Shadows of the Dead, "For we were FriendsAlways," Nikoa, The Strange White Woman of Maduro, The Obstinacy ofMrs. Tatton, The Treasure of Don Bruno.
Animal Episodes and Studies in Sensation
By G. H. POWELL. 8vo, cloth, $1.50 net.
The reader, if he be in sorrow, or even in suspense, is taken out ofhimself and knows nothing of what is going on save what the authortells him--James Payn, in "Illustrated London News."
Thrilling to the point of intensity--Westminster Gazette.
Breathlessly interesting--Pall Mall Gazette.