CHECKERS; a Hard-Luck Story, by the author of “The Documents in Evidence.” 16mo. $1.25. Third edition.
“Abounds in the most racy and picturesque slang.”—N. Y. Recorder.
“Checkers is an interesting and entertaining chap, a distinct type, with a separate tongue and a way of saying things that is oddly humorous.”—Chicago Record.
“If I had to ride from New York to Chicago on a slow train, I should like half a dozen books as gladsome as Checkers, and I could laugh at the trip.”—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
ALICE MORSE EARLE.
CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS; by the author of “Sabbath in Puritan New England,” etc., with many quaint pictures by Frank Hazenplug. 12mo. $1.50.
Mrs. Earle dedicates her book, in the language of an old-time writer, to “All curious and ingenious gentlemen and gentlewomen who can gain from acts of the past a delight in the present days of virtue, wisdom and the humanities.”
H. C. CHATFIELD-TAYLOR.
THE LAND OF THE CASTANET; Spanish Sketches, by the author of “Two Women and a Fool,” with twenty-five full-page illustrations. 16mo. $1.25.