"Undoubtedly the most notable interpretation in years of the real America. It compares favorably with Bryce"s "American Commonwealth.""--_Philadelphia Press._
VEBLEN--THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLa.s.s
BY THORSTEIN B. VEBLEN
"The most valuable recent contribution to the elucidation of this subject."--_London Times._
WELLS--NEW WORLDS FOR OLD
BY H. G. WELLS
"As a presentation of Socialistic thought as it is working to-day, this is the most judicious and balanced discussion at the disposal of the general reader."--_World To-day._
WHITE--THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
"The present status of society in America. An excellent antidote to the pessimism of modern writers on our social system."--_Baltimore Sun._
THE MACMILLAN FICTION LIBRARY
A new and important series of some of the best popular novels which have been published in recent years.
These successful books are now made available at a popular price in response to the insistent demand for cheaper editions.
EACH VOLUME, CLOTH, 12MO, 50 CENTS NET; POSTAGE, 10 CENTS EXTRA
ALLEN--A KENTUCKY CARDINAL
BY JAMES LANE ALLEN
"A narrative, told with nave simplicity, of how a man who was devoted to his fruits and flowers and birds came to fall in love with a fair neighbor."--_New York Tribune._
ALLEN--THE REIGN OF LAW, _A TALE OF THE KENTUCKY HEMPFIELDS_
BY JAMES LANE ALLEN
"Mr. Allen has style as original and almost as perfectly finished as Hawthorne"s.... And rich in the qualities that are lacking in so many novels of the period."--_San Francisco Chronicle._
ATHERTON--PATIENCE SPARHAWK
BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON
"One of the most interesting works of the foremost American novelist."
CHILD--JIM HANDS
BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD
"A big, simple, leisurely moving chronicle of life. Commands the profoundest respect and admiration. Jim is a real man, sound and fine."--_Daily News._
CRAWFORD--THE HEART OF ROME
BY MARION CRAWFORD
"A story of underground mysterie."
CRAWFORD--FAIR MARGARET: A PORTRAIT
BY MARION CRAWFORD
"A story of modern life in Italy, visualizing the country and its people, and warm with the red blood of romance and melodrama."--_Boston Transcript._
DAVIS--A FRIEND OF CaeSAR
BY WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
"There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant, that they fix themselves in the memory."--NANCY HUSTON BANKS in _The Bookman_.
DRUMMOND--THE JUSTICE OF THE KING
BY HAMILTON DRUMMOND
"Read the story for the sake of the living, breathing people, the adventures, but most for the sake of the boy who served love and the King."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN
"It is full of nature in many phases--of breeze and sunshine, of the glory of the land, and the sheer joy of living."--_New York Times._
GALE--LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETARRE