ern lest his children become
contaminated by what he considers an unwholesome social
atmosphere. The book is filled with Mr. Benson's clever
observations on the English smart set, and the love-story
shows him at his best.

MORGANATIC

BY MAX NORDAU

_12mo. Decorated cloth, $1.50._

This new book by the author of "Degeneration," has many of the
qualities which gave its predecessor such a phenomenal sale. It
is a study of morganatic marriage, and full of strong
situations.

OLIVE LATHAM

By E. L. VOYNICH
Author of "Jack Raymond" and "The Gadfly." Cloth, $1.50

"The author's knowledge of this matter has been painfully personal. Her
husband, a Polish political refugee, at the age of twenty-two, was
arrested and thrown into a vile Russian prison without trial, and spent
five years of his life thereafter in Siberian exile, escaping in 1890
and fleeing to England. Throughout 'Olive Latham' you get the impression
that it is a veritable record of what one woman went through for
love.... This painful, poignant, powerfully-written story permits one
full insight into the cruel workings of Russian justice and its effects
upon the nature of a well-poised Englishwoman. Olive comes out of the
Russian hell alive, and lives to know what happiness is again, but the
horror of those days in St. Petersburg, the remembrance of the
inhumanity which killed her lover never leaves her.... It rings true. It
is a grewsome study of Russian treatment of political offenders. Its
theme is not objectionable--a criticism which has been brought against
other books of Mrs. Voynich's."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

"So vividly are the coming events made to cast their shadows before,
that long before the half-way point is reached the reader knows that
Volodya's doom is near at hand, and that the chief interest of the story
lies not with him, but with the girl, and more specifically with the
curious mental disorders which her long ordeal brings upon her. It is
seldom that an author has succeeded in depicting with such grim horror
the sufferings of a mind that feels itself slipping over the brink of
sanity, and clutches desperately at shadows in the effort to drag itself
back."--_New York Globe._

BACCARAT

BY FRANK DANBY
AUTHOR OF "PIGS IN CLOVER"

_12 mo. Six illustrations in color. Cloth, $1.50._

The story of a young wife left by her husband at a Continental
watering