THE PRISONER OF ZENDA:
Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman. By Anthony Hope. 16mo, 75 cents.
“A grand story.... It is dignified, quick in action, thrilling, terrible.... There is everything that is exciting and turbulent, and nothing that is too extravagant to be possible with desperate men fighting for so great an issue as the throne of a ‘powerful province.’... A great writer, and there is no flaw either in the design, execution, or wording of a really most ingenious tale.”—Chicago Herald.
“The author is a born story-teller, and has, moreover, a very pretty wit of his own.”—The Outlook.
A SUBURBAN PASTORAL.
And Other Tales. By Henry A. Beers. 16mo, 75 cents.
Contents: A Suburban Pastoral—A Midwinter Night’s Dream—A Comedy of Errors—Declaration of Independence—Split Zephyr—A Graveyard Idyl—Edric the Wild and the Witch Wife—The Wine-Flower.
QUAKER IDYLS.
By Mrs. S. M. H. Gardner. 16mo, 75 cents.
Contents: Twelfth Street Meeting—A Quaker Wedding—Two Gentlewomen—Our Little Neighbors—Pamelia Tewksbury’s Courtship—Some Ante-Bellum Letters from a Quaker Girl—Uncle Joseph—My Grandame’s Secret.