A PRESENT-DAY NOVEL

BY MARY DEVEREUX

Author of "From Kingdom to Colony" and "Lafitte of Louisiana."

12mo. Decorated Cloth. $1.50.

A love story, told with delicacy and grace.—Brooklyn Times.

Humor and pathos, love and adventure, abound throughout the work. Spicy incidents are plentiful.—Atlanta Constitution.

Margaret Leslie is a heroine who deserves a place in Mr. Howells' gallery of immortal heroines in fiction.—Rochester Herald.

Margaret Leslie's brave service in the battle with self is as attractive as the patriotic deeds of Mary Devereux's former heroine.—New York Times Saturday Review.

The story is one of sunshine and shade, of smiles and tears. The author has created for us a little company of people whom we learn to love, and from whom it is hard to part.—Boston Transcript.

The book is charmingly written, the style pure and strong, and the play of native wit engaging.—Outlook, New York.