  "A series which has given us nothing but good" The Ivory Series Each volume bound in green and white with gilt Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers JUST PUBLISHED The Boss of Taroomba By E. W. Hornung A charming love-story of the Australian bush by the author of "Irralie's Bushranger" and the "Amateur Cracksman." PREVIOUS VOLUMES Sweethearts and Wives Stories of Life in the Navy. By Anna A. Rogers. Various episodes, romantic, sentimental, humorous and even tragic, in the lives of the wives and sweethearts of naval officers, form the subjects of this group of stories, several of which have met with approval in the magazines. If I Were a Man The Story of a New-Southerner. By Harrison Robertson. This is the first novel from the pen of a writer already known to a considerable audience as the managing editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal, and as a story-teller of exceptional ability. Amos Judd By J. A. Mitchell, Editor of "Life." "This is an excellent story, well told, and with a plot that deserved the care bestowed upon its elaboration."—The Critic. IVORY SERIES Ia; a Love Story By "Q" (Arthur T. Quiller-Couch). "No story was ever more fearlessly and more thoughtfully aimed at the very heart of life."—The Bookman. The Suicide Club By Robert Louis Stevenson. "There is a great deal of grim humor in the 'Suicide Club,' and no lack of subtle irony, while as an example of plot weaving and invention it compares favorably with some of Stevenson's later work."—New York Times. Irralie's Bushranger A Story of Australian Adventure. By E. W. Hornung. "The incidents, just improbable enough to be real, are original and cleverly combined, and there is no flagging in the press and stir of the story."—The Nation. A Master Spirit By Harriet Prescott Spofford. "The theme is the old one of how it takes a great loss, a great grief, a great disappointment to make a really great singer; and this theme Mrs. Spofford has developed with a rare grace and charm."—Boston Advertiser. Madame Delphine By George W. Cable. "There are few living American writers who can reproduce for us more perfectly than Mr. Cable does the speech, the manners, the whole social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar people."—New York Tribune. IVORY SERIES One of the Visconti By Eva Wilder Brodhead. "The author has succeeded uncommonly well in combining descriptions of actual scenes, as in a book of travel, with the action of a romantic tale."—Boston Transcript. A Book of Martyrs By Cornelia Atwood Pratt. "Miss Pratt shows a strength and insight into character that have enabled her, without resorting to the morbid or the ultra-sensational, to produce a volume of short stories of which each is a model of its kind."—New York Sun. A Bride from the Bush By E. W. Hornung. "The story is prettily told, and is particularly bright in its glimpses of Bush life. Mr. Hornung has certainly earned the right to be called the Bret Harte of Australia."—Boston Herald. The Man Who Wins By Robert Herrick. "It is written with admirable restraint, and without affectations of style, in the clearest English. It is a pleasure to welcome Mr. Herrick into the small company of serious literary workers."—Chap-Book. An Inheritance By Harriet Prescott Spofford. "Mrs. Spofford has done nothing better than this daintily written story, if, indeed, anything quite so good."—Philadelphia Press. IVORY SERIES The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock By Thomas Nelson Page. "There could hardly be a more appropriate addition to the Scribners' dainty Ivory Series than the little volume before us, with its moral that, after all, love is best."—The Critic. Literary Love Letters And Other Stories. By Robert Herrick. "It shows literary elegance and skill, to say nothing of the daintiest of touches."—Chicago Times-Herald. A Romance in Transit By Francis Lynde. "I was surprised at the way he handled the engine, and it was all so natural, for I have been there. It is not only a good railroad story, but a delightful love story."—Cy Warman. In Old Narragansett Romances and Realities. By Alice Morse Earle. "Told with all the art of a practiced writer of fiction. Mrs. Earle has accurate and delightful knowledge of old-time ways in Narragansett."—The Outlook. Seven Months a Prisoner By Judge J. V. Hadley. "The book is a very interesting account of a very rare experience."—New York Times. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS |
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