when the whole
castle is throbbing with joy and festivity." Then the irrepressible
princess buried her flushed face in her hands, and laughed and
laughed, as if this were the most irresistible comedy in the world,
instead of a grave affair of state, until at last the two monarchs
were forced to laugh in sympathy.

"I could not wish her a braver husband," said Francis at last. "I see
she has bewitched you as is her habit with all of us."

And thus it came about that James the Fifth of Scotland married the
fair Madeleine of France.

THE END

By A. Conan Doyle

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

A Sherlock Holmes Novel

Illustrated by Sidney Paget

_The London Chronicle_, in a review headed

"THE ZENITH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES,"

says:

"We should like to pay Dr. Doyle the highest compliment at our
command. It is not simply that this book is superior in originality
and construction to the earlier adventures of the great detective. Dr.
Doyle has provided a criminal who, as Mr. Holmes admits, is indeed a
foeman worthy of his steel.[A] Hitherto he has found it comparatively
easy to unmask his antagonists. But in the present case he finds
himself checkmated again and again. There is pitted against him a
skill nearly equal to his own, and he wins the game almost by a hair."

[Footnote A: "I tell you, Watson, this time we have a foeman who is
worthy of our steel."--_Sherlock Holmes._]

$1.25

McClure, Phillips & Co.

By George Douglas

THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS

The first novel of a new master. The work has gained wide-spread
recognition on both sides of the water. Three of the most conservative
and authoritative publications in England include it among the first
twelve of the year. In this country _Harper's Weekly_ gives it as one
of the two most interesting novels of the year.

_The critics differ as to with what other master George Douglas should
be compared:_

_The London Times_ says: "Worthy of the hand that drew 'Weir of
Hermiston,'" and that "Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch,
would have written such a book."

_The Spectator:_ "His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few
traces of the novice and none of the imitator."

_Vanity Fair:_ "It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an
AEschylean tragedy."

_Harper's Weekly:_ "If Thomas Hardy had written of Scotland, instead
of Wessex, it would have been something like 'The House with the Green
Shutters'.... If