of this people
are told with sympathetic force.

Mr. Horton employs a vivid style that keeps the interest alive and many
passages are filled with delicate poetic feeling.

Things happen and the story moves. The characters are well conceived and
are human and convincing. Beyond question Mr. Horton's fine story is
destined to take high rank among the books of the day.

With illustrations by C.M. Relyea

12mo, Cloth bound

Price, $1.50

_The Chicago Times-Herald says:_

"Here are chapters that are Stephen Crane plus sympathy; chapters of
illuminated description fragrant with the atmosphere of art."

The Bowen-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL HISTORICAL NOVEL

THE BLACK WOLF'S BREED

By HARRIS DICKSON

_From the Boston Globe:_

"A vigorous tale of France in the old and new world during the reign of
Louis XIV."

_From the Philadelphia Press:_

"As delightfully seductive as certain mint-flavored beverages they make
down South."

_From the Los Angeles Herald:_

"The sword-play is great, even finer than the pictures in 'To Have and
To Hold.'"

_From the San Francisco Chronicle:_

"As fine a piece of sustained adventure as has appeared in recent
fiction."

_From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:_

"There is action, vivid description and intensely dramatic situations."

_From the Indianapolis News:_

"So full of tender love-making, of gallant fighting, that one regrets
it's no longer."

Illustrated by C.M. Relyea. Price $1.50

The Bowen-Merrill Company, _Indianapolis_

A FINE STORY OF THE COWBOY AT HIS BEST

WITH HOOPS _of_ STEEL

By FLORENCE FINCH KELLY

"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel"

* * * * *

_From the San Francisco Chronicle:_

"Western men and women will read it because it paints faithfully the
life which they know so well, and because it gives us three big, manly
fellows, fine types of the cowboy at his best. Eastern readers will be
attracted by its splendid realism."

_From Julian Hawthorne:_

"For my own part, I finished it all in one day, and dreamt it over again
that night. And I am an old hand, heaven knows"

_From the Denver Times:_

"Mrs. Kelly's character stands out from the background of the New
Mexican plains, desert and mountain with all the distinctness of a
Remington sketch."

With six illustrations, in color, by Dan Smith