D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
By FRANK R. STOCKTON.
The Captain’s Toll-Gate.
A Complete Posthumous Novel by Frank R. Stockton, Author of “Kate Bonnet,” “The Lady or the Tiger,” etc. With a Memoir by Mrs. Stockton, an Etched Portrait, Views of Mr. Stockton’s Home, and a Bibliography. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The scene is partly laid in Washington but mainly in that part of West Virginia where the author spent the last three years of his life. Incidents centering about the “Toll-Gate” and a fashionable country home in the neighborhood are related with the author’s peculiar humor and charm of diction which have endeared him to a host of readers.