Detroit News._

"One of the most brilliant and fascinating romances that has
been published in many a day. The story is dramatic, powerful,
irresistible in its interest as a love story alone. The greatest
work of the day in imaginative art."--_Boston Traveller._

"The Churchman" says: "We soon found that we had a very
powerfully written and fascinating story to enjoy. 'The Prelate'
is a novel of modern Italian life, involving the Old Catholic
movement and the Jesuit intrigues to suppress the spread of
reform in the papal communion. We think it _one_ of the best, if
not _the_ best, novels we have met with upon such topics. It is
thoroughly well written, not exaggerated, not melodramatic, and
the characters admirably drawn and finely discriminated....
Apart from its great interest and exceptional cleverness as a
novel, this book is well worth reading."

The "Christian Union" says: "Here the insight into character,
the delicacy and fineness of touch, the keenness of analysis,
and the firmness of the literary method, remind one of Mr. Henry
James, but are unaccompanied with prolixity."

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The Northern Pacific Railway's Great Romance.

THE GOLDEN SPIKE.

By EDWARD KING. 12mo. $1.50.

"One of the brightest and freshest works of fiction of the
season. It is breezy and inspiring, and the author's vigorous
and graceful style was never displayed to better advantage. It
takes the reader from London to America, through the marvellous
Northwest, and describes scenery and customs with a
picturesqueness and truthfulness that will thoroughly absorb the
attention of even the most _blase_ novel reader."--_Boston
Budget._

"Whoever begins to read it will, under its charm, find it
difficult to do anything else until it is finished. The author,
in fact, takes us through wonderland at a pace something like
that of the railway described. Minnesota, Dakota, Idaho,
Montana, Oregon, Washington Territory, and British Columbia are
spread out before us in most graphic descriptions. In
conclusion, we may state that Mr. King's book is exceedingly
attractive."--_Galignani's Messenger_ (Paris).

=TICKNOR AND COMPANY, Boston.=

JAPANESE HOMES

AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. By EDWARD S. MORSE, Ph.D., Director of the
Peabody Academy of Science, late Professor of Tokio