ver."--_Philadelphia Telegraph_.

"Has already made its mark as a popular story, and will have an
abundance of readers.... It contains some useful lessons that will repay
the thoughtful study of persons of both sexes."--_New York Journal of
Commerce_.

"This brilliant novel will, without doubt, add to the repute of the
writer who chooses to be known as Julien Gordon.... The ethical purpose
of the author is kept fully in evidence through a series of intensely
interesting situations."--_Boston Beacon_.

"It is obvious that the author is thoroughly at home in illustrating the
manner and the sentiment of the best society of both America and
Europe."--_Chicago Times_.

RECENT ISSUES IN APPLETONS' TOWN AND COUNTRY LIBRARY.

_THE THREE MISS KINGS_. By ADA CAMBRIDGE, author of "My Guardian." 12mo.
Paper, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.

"May unreservedly be recommended as one of the choice stories of the
season, bright, refined, graceful, thoughtful, and interesting from the
first to the final page."--_Boston Literary World_.

_A MATTER OF SKILL_. By BEATRICE WHITBY, author of "The Awakening of
Mary Fenwick" and "Part of the Property." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth,
$1.00.

"A pretty love-story, told in a gracefully piquant manner, and with a
frank freshness of style that makes it very attractive in the reading.
It is uncommonly well written."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette_.

"The story is charmingly told, and is very readable."--_Literary World_.

_MAID MARIAN, AND OTHER STORIES_. By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL, author of
"Throckmorton" and "Little Jarvis." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.

"There is an unmistakable cleverness in this collection of short
stories."--_Boston Literary World_.

"Miss Seawell has a brisk and prolific fancy, and a turn for the odd and
fantastic, while she is Past Master in the use of negro dialect and the
production of tales of plantation life and manners. All these stories
are spirited, well marked by local color, and written with skill and
ingenuity."--_New York Tribune_.

"Miss Seawell writes capital stories, and in a special way nothing of
late has been done better nor more daintily than 'Maid Marian.'"--_New
York Times_.

_ONE WOMAN'S WAY_. By EDMUND PENDLETON, author of "A Conventional
Bohemian," "A Virginia Inheritance," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth,
$1.00.

"The author is a Virginian who has written some interesting stories, and
who steadily improves upon him