"A sunny, pungent, humorous sketch.… A bright, amusing book, which is thoughtful as well as amusing, and may stimulate, somewhere, thinking that shall bear fruit in some really effective remedial action."—Chicago Times.

ON THE LAKE OF LUCERNE, AND OTHER STORIES. By Beatrice Whitby.

"Six short stories carefully and conscientiously finished, and told with the graceful ease of the practiced raconteur."—Literary Digest.

"The stories are pleasantly told in light and delicate vein, and are sure to be acceptable to the friends Miss Whitby has already made on this side of the Atlantic."—Philadelphia Bulletin.

"Very dainty, not only in mechanical workmanship but in matter and manner."—Boston Advertiser.


Each, 16mo, half cloth, with specially designed cover, 50 cents.


Recent Issues in Appletons' Town and Country Library

STEPHEN ELLICOTT'S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. J. H. Needell, author of "The Story of Philip Methuen." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.