A Mad Madonna and other stories.
By L. Clarkson Whitelock, with eight half-tone illustrations.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth $1.00
A half dozen remarkable psychological stories, delicate in color and conception. Each of the six has a touch of the supernatural, a quick suggestion, a vivid intensity, and a dreamy realism that is matchless in its forceful execution.
On the Point.
A Summer Idyl. By Nathan Haskell Dole, author of "Not Angels Quite," with dainty half-tone illustrations as chapter headings.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth $1.00
A bright and clever story of a summer on the coast of Maine, fresh, breezy, and readable from the first to the last page. The narrative describes the summer outing of a Mr. Merrithew and his family. The characters are all honest, pleasant people, whom we are glad to know. We part from them with the same regret with which we leave a congenial party of friends.
Cavalleria Rusticana; or, Under the Shadow of Etna.
Translated from the Italian of Giovanni Verga, by Nathan Haskell Dole. Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry.
1 vol., 16mo, cloth $0.50
Giovanni Verga stands at present as unquestionably the most prominent of the Italian novelists. His supremacy in the domain of the short story and in the wider range of the romance is recognized both at home and abroad. The present volume contains a selection from the most dramatic and characteristic of his Sicilian tales. Verga is himself a native of Sicily, and his knowledge of that wonderful country, with its poetic and yet superstitious peasantry, is absolute. Such pathos, humor, variety, and dramatic quality are rarely met in a single volume.