Cameos. Ten Short Stories. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. The surprising versatility of Marie Corelli has never been better displayed than in this varied group of short stories which run the whole gamut of feeling, sentiment, and purpose known to contemporary fiction. Appearing as they do almost simultaneously with "The Sorrows of Satan," that wonderful romance of nineteenth-century life which is the theme of the day, alike in England and America, they serve to mark the tenderness, the love of human sentiment, and the sympathy for human suffering which are naturally less emphasized in the more powerful and concentrated novel. The Sorrows of Satan; Or, The Strange Experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire. A Romance. With frontispiece by Van Schaick. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. "There is very little in common between this story and 'Barabbas.' In 'The Sorrows of Satan' Miss Corelli wields a much more vigorous pen. She is full of her purpose. Dear me, how she scathes English society! She exposes the low life of high life with a ruthless pen. The sins of the fashionable world made even Satan sad; they were more than he could bear, poor man! The book is lively reading, and will be read in England with an eager curiosity."-Chicago Tribune. Barabbas. A Dream of the World's Tragedy. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. "A book which aroused in some quarters more violent hostility than any book of recent years. By most secular critics the authoress was accused of bad taste, bad art, and gross blasphemy; but, in curious contrast, most religious papers acknowledged the reverence of treatment and the dignity of conception which characterized the work."-London Athenæum. Vendetta ; Or, The Story of One Forgotten. "It is a thrilling and irresistibly charming book.”—Baltimore American. "The story is Italian, the time 1884, and the precise stage of the acts, Naples, during the last visitation of the cholera. A romance, but a romance of reality. No mind of man can imagine incidents so wonderful, so amazing as those of actual Occurrence. While the story is exciting, and must be read through when once begun, it furnishes a vivid and impressive picture of Italian life and morals." Washington National Republican. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. BY ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON. Through Colonial Doorways. With a number of colonial illustrations from drawings specially made for the work. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. "It is a pleasant retrospect of fashionable New York and Philadelphia society during and immediately following the Revolution; for there was a Four Hundred even in those days, and some of them were Whigs and some were Tories, but all enjoyed feasting and dancing, of which there seemed to be no limit. And this little book tells us about the belles of the Philadelphia meschianza, who they were, how they dressed, and how they flirted with Major André and other officers in Sir William Howe's wicked employ."-Philadelphia Record. Colonial Days and Dames. With numerous illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. "In less skilful hands than those of Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's, these scraps of reminiscences from diaries and letters would prove but dry bones. But she has made them sa charming that it is as if she had taken dried roses from an old album and freshened them into bloom and perfume. Each slight paragraph from a letter is framed in historical sketches of local affairs or with some account of the people who knew the letter writers, or were at least of their date, and there are pretty suggestions as to how and why such letters were written, with hints of love affairs, which lend a rose-colored veil to what were probably every-day matters in colonial families."-Pittsburg Bulletin. For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price, J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Publishers, PHILADELPHIA. FOR GIRLS. LITTLE MISS MUFFET. COUSIN MONA. 12mo. Cloth, illustrated, $1.25 per volume. The two above volumes, in box, $2.50. With great descriptive power, considerable and often quiet fun, there is a delicacy and tenderness, a knowledge and strength of purpose, combined with so much fertility of resource and originality that the interest never flags, and the sensation on putting down any of her works is that of having dwelt in a thoroughly healthy atmosphere. Five volumes, uniform binding, in neat box, $6.25. "Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey has achieved an enviable reputation as a writer of tales of a restful and quiet kind. They tell pleasant stories of agreeable people, are never sensational, and have a genuine moral purpose and helpful tone, without being aggressively didactic or distinctly religious in character."-N. Y. Christian Union. For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price, J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Publishers, PHILADELPHIA. Captain Charles King, U.S.A. Under Fire. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.25. The Colonel's Daughter. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.25. Captain Blake. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.25. Kitty's Conquest. Cloth, $1.00. Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories. Cloth, $1.00. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. The Deserter, and From the Ranks. Cloth, $1.00. Cloth, $1.00. Two Soldiers, and Dunraven Ranch. Cloth, $1.00. A Soldier's Secret, and An Army Portia. Cloth, $1.00. Waring's Peril. Cloth, $1.00. Trials of a Staff Officer. Cloth, $1.00. Captain Close, and Sergeant Croesus. Cloth, $1.00. EDITOR OF The Colonel's Christmas Dinner, and Other Stories. Cloth, $1.25. An Initial Experience, and Other Stories. Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 50 cents. Captain Dreams, and Other Stories. Cloth, $1.00; Paper, 50 cents. From the lowest soldier to the highest officer, from the servant to the master, there is not a character in any of Captain King's novels that is not wholly in keeping with expressed sentiments. There is not a movement made on the field, not a break from the ranks, not an offence against the military code of discipline, and hardly a heart-beat that escapes his watchfulness."-Boston Herald. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA. |