“A composite yet a splendid picture.”—New York Herald.

“A fascinating picture of the life of a hundred years ago, and should be read by every one of taste and intelligence . . . enthusiastically and imaginatively romantic.”—New England Magazine.

Chosen from the great mass of his published state papers and public correspondence in such a way as to give to the average reader for the first time the means of estimating Hamilton’s personality from his words.

“Vivacity, energy, an indomitable will, unbounded confidence in himself and his abilities, pride, power, passion, extraordinarily clear foresight,—these, together with many engaging qualities, come out so strongly through these letters that they soon make the man real.”—Boston Herald.

“They are strong and interesting with the gay, brilliant, picturesque interest of that romantic period when life in the Southern California towns was more theatrical, more like grand opera performances, than anything our busy commonplace, practical civilization nowadays knows anything about.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.

“There can be no question as to the cleverness of this book. The characters stand out with sharp distinctiveness and act as if they were transcripts from life rather than the creations of a prolific and well-ordered imagination. There are admirable bits of description, proofs of a keenly observant eye quick to seize upon everything that gives distinctiveness.”—Pacific Churchman.

Mrs. Atherton is one of the comparatively few writers of marked popularity whose earlier books remain in demand year after year.

“Mr. White has written a big and satisfying book made up of the elements of American life as we know them—the familiar humor, sorrows, ambitions, crimes, sacrifices—revealed to us with peculiar freshness and vigor in the multitude of human actions and by the crowd of delightful people who fill his four hundred odd pages. . . . It deserves a high place among the novels that deal with American life. No recent American novel save one has sought to cover so broad a canvas, or has created so strong an impression of ambition and of sincerity.”—Chicago Ev’g Post.

By the author of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Mr. Major has selected a period to the romance of which other historical novelists have been singularly blind. The boyhood of Frederick the Great and the strange wooing of his charming sister Wilhelmina have afforded a theme, rich in its revelation of human nature and full of romantic situations.

By the author of The Garden of a Commuter’s Wife

“A rainbow romance, . . . tender yet bracing, cheerily stimulating . . . its genial entirety refreshes like a cooling shower.”—Chicago Record-Herald.

“There cannot be too many of these books by ‘Barbara.’ Mrs. Wright knows good American stock through and through and presents it with effective simplicity.”—Boston Advertiser.

By the author of Friendship Village, The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre

“Whatever name Friendship Village goes by on the map, for many of us it is quite sufficiently identified by its resemblance to a place we like to remember under the name of ‘Our Home Town.’ Its cruder outlines a little softened, yet not completely disguised, the faces a bit idealized but none the worse likenesses for that—thus and in no other fashion would we have chosen to have its scenes pictured.”—Boston Transcript.

“Schools of fiction have come and gone, but Mr. Crawford has always remained in favor. There are two reasons for this continued popularity; he always had a story to tell, and he knew how to tell it. He was a born story-teller, and what is more rare, a trained one.”—The Independent.

“Mr. Crawford tells his love story with plenty of that dramatic instinct which was ever one of his best gifts. We are, as always, absorbed and amused.”—New York Tribune.

“Good stirring romance, simple and poignant.”—Chicago Record-Herald.

“His people are always vividly real, invariably individual.”—Boston Transcript.

“He has achieved a work of art more complete in expression than anything that has yet come from him. It is like a cry of the soul, so intense one scarcely realizes whether it is put into words or not.”—Bookman.

“It is a masterpiece . . . the most carefully wrought out of all his work.”

“An able book, remarkably so, and one which should find a place in the library of any woman who is not a fool.”—Editorial in the New York American.

Mr. W. D. Howells says in the North American Review: “What I should finally say of his work is that it is more broadly based than that of any other American novelist of his generation. . . . Mr. Herrick’s fiction is a force for the higher civilization, which, to be widely felt, needs only to be widely known.”

By the author of Richard Carvel, etc.

“Mr. Churchill rises to a level he has never known before and gives us one of the best stories of American life ever written; . . . it is written out of a sympathy that goes deep. . . . We go on to the end with growing appreciation. . . . It is good to have such a book.”—New York Tribune.

A new novel along lines which are distinctly new to Mr. Churchill.

“To any one who has a genuine interest in American literature there is no pleasanter thing than to see the work of some good American writer strengthening and deepening year by year as has the work of Miss Ellen Glasgow. From the first she has had the power to tell a strong story, full of human interest, but as the years have passed and her work has continued, it has shown an interesting mellowness and sympathy. This is particularly evident in ‘The Romance of a Plain Man.’ ”—Chicago Daily Tribune.

By the author of The Call of the Wild

The stirring story of a man who rises by force of sheer ability and perseverance from the humblest beginning to a position of fame and influence. The elemental strength, the vigor and determination, of Martin Eden make him the most interesting character that Mr. London has ever created. “It is,” writes the critic of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, “a forcible, fearless, forthright book, spilling over with vitality.”

“ ‘Other People’s Houses’ possesses that distinction of style in which most of our current American fiction is so lamentably deficient, and it has in addition the advantage of a theme which is a grateful relief from the usual saccharine love story admittedly designed to suit the caramel age. . . . Miss Dewing has a fine feeling for comedy and gives evidence of both genuine talent and a fresh and vivid outlook upon life.”—New York Times.