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"A story that must be read."--_New York Sun._

"Vividly alive from the first line."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

"The most marvellous work of its wonderful author."--_New York World._

"Absolutely different from anything else that has ever appeared in
fiction."--_Brooklyn Eagle._

"Love is not here the sentimental emotion of the ordinary novel or play,
but the power that purges the weaknesses and vivifies the dormant
nobilities of men and women."--_The Academy_, London, England.

"Quite sure to be the most widely and most highly considered book of the
year."--_Chicago Evening Post._

"The story is the combat between two powers of a brilliant woman's
nature. Sometimes you are sure the lawless, the vagabond, and the
intriguing side will win. But it doesn't...."--_Boston Transcript._

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HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers
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BY HENRY SETON MERRIMAN

THE VULTURES. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Ornamented Cloth, $1.50.

A new novel by Henry Seton Merriman is always eagerly welcomed by every
reader of fiction. This is a story of intrigue, conspiracy, and exciting
adventure among the political factions of the great European nations.
One of the scenes is in Russia at the time of the assassination of the
Czar. The _attaches_ of the various Foreign Offices play an important
part. It is full of exciting, dramatic situations, most of which centre
around the love interest of the story--the love of a young English
diplomatist for the beautiful Countess Wanda of Warsaw.

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BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

THE MAID-AT-ARMS. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Post 8vo,
Ornamented Cloth, $1.50.

Mr. Chambers has long since won a most enviable position among
contemporary novelists. The great popular success of "Cardigan" makes
this present novel of unusual interest to all readers of fiction. It is
a stirring novel of American life in days just after the Revolution. It
deals with the conspiracy of the great New York land-owners a