ster Herald_.

The scene is laid in Kentucky and Indiana, and the backbone of the story
is Morgan's great raid--one of the most romantic and reckless pieces of
adventure ever attempted in the history of the world. Mr. Clark's
description of the "Ride of the Three Thousand" is a piece of literature
that deserves to live; and is as fine in its way as the chariot race
from "Ben Hur."--_Memphis Commercial Appeal_.

12 mo. Illustrated Price $1.50

The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL HISTORICAL NOVEL.

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The Black Wolf's Breed

BY HARRIS DICKSON.

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

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

The sword-play is great, even finer than the pictures in "Two Have and
To Hold."--_Los Angeles Herald_.

As fine a piece of sustained adventure as has appeared in recent
fiction.--_San Francisco Chronicle_.

There is action, vivid description and intensely dramatic
situations.--_St. Louis Globe-Democrat_.

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

12 mo., Illustrated by C.M. Relyea,

Price $1.50

The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis

A FINE STORY of the COWBOY AT HIS BEST.

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WITH HOOPS OF STEEL

By FLORENCE FINCH KELLY.

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"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy
soul With Hoops of Steel."

"With Hoops of Steel," is issued in handsome style, with several
striking pictures in colors by Dan Smith, by The Bowen-Merrill Company
of Indianapolis, a Western publishing house that has a long record of
recent successes in fiction. This firm seems to tell by instinct what
the public wants to read, and in Mrs. Kelly's case it is safe to say
that no mistake has been made. Western men and women will read 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.--_San
Francisco Chronicle_.

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