  THE LIFE AND DEATH OF By MAURICE HEWLETT Author of "The Forest Lovers," "Little Novels of Italy," etc. Cloth. 12mo. $1.50 "The hero of Mr. Hewlett's latest novel is Richard Coeur de Lion, whose character is peculiarly suited to the author's style. It is on a much wider plan than 'The Forest Lovers,' and while not historical in the sense of attempting to follow events with utmost exactness, it will be found to give an accurate portrayal of the life of the day, such as might well be expected from the author's previous work. There is a varied and brilliant background, the scene shifting from France to England, and also to Palestine. In a picturesque way, and a way that compels the sympathies of his readers, Mr. Hewlett reads into the heart of King Richard Coeur de Lion, showing how he was torn by two natures and how the title 'Yea and Nay' was peculiarly significant of his character."—Boston Herald. "The tale by itself is marvellously told; full of luminous poetry; intensely human in its passion; its style, forceful and picturesque; its background, a picture of beauty and mysterious loveliness; the whole, radiant with the very spirit of romanticism as lofty in tone and as serious in purpose as an epic poem. It is a book that stands head and shoulders above the common herd of novels—the work of a master hand."—Indianapolis News. "Mr. Hewlett has done one of the most notable things in recent literature, a thing to talk about with abated breath, as a bit of master-craftsmanship touched by the splendid dignity of real creation."—The Interior. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK WHO GOES THERE? The Story of a Spy in the Civil War By B. K. BENSON Cloth. 12mo. $1.50 "Beyond question the best story of the Civil War that has appeared of recent years.... Veterans who took part in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac will follow every page with absorbed interest ... so detailed and seemingly so accurate are the descriptions of battlefields and of the positions occupied by the two armies at different times. The book deserves to be put among the works of history dealing with the Civil War, rather than among the works of fiction, so great is the preponderance of fact. It is due to the author's power for graphic presentation of detail, and his keen regard for the fears and emotions of his hero, that his book contains much of the interest of a novel while containing more historical truth than most historical fictions."—The Springfield Republican. "Unquestionably this production ranks with the very best stories that have been written about the great rebellion.... No veteran of the war could read of the gallant work done so systematically, yet modestly, by the almost unknown soldier, Jones Berwick, and add anything to the charm of the tale."—Evening Post, Chicago. THE HOSTS OF THE LORD By FLORA ANNIE STEEL Author of "On the Face of the Waters," "Voices in the Night," etc. Cloth. 12mo. $1.50 "'The Hosts of the Lord' is a very dramatic and absorbing story; once embarked on its broad current, one is carried swiftly to the final catastrophe.... The novel is not only dramatic in the sense of presenting a well-defined plot, relating the actors to it and carrying the narrative on to a tragic climax; it is also full of atmospheric effects; the languor, the heat, the passion of nature in the East are in it."—Hamilton W. Mabie. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK IN THE PALACE OF THE KING A Love Story of Old Madrid By F. MARION CRAWFORD Author of "Via Crucis," "Saracinesca," etc. Illustrated by Fred Roe Cloth. 12mo. $1.50 "Marion Crawford's latest story, 'In the Palace of the King,' is quite up to the level of his best works for cleverness, grace of style, and sustained interest. It is, besides, to some extent a historical story, the scene being the royal palace at Madrid, and the author drawing the characters of Philip II. and Don John of Austria with an attempt, in a broad, impressionist way, at historic faithfulness. His reproduction of the life at the Spanish court is as brilliant and picturesque as any of his Italian scenes, and in minute study of detail is, in a real and valuable sense, true history."—The Advance. "Mr. Crawford has taken a love story of vital interest and has related the web of facts simply, swiftly, and with moderation ... a story as brilliant as it is romantic in its setting. Here his genius for story telling is seen at its best."—Boston Herald. "For sustained intensity and graphic description Marion Crawford's new novel is inapproachable in the field of recent fiction."—Times Union, Albany. "Don John of Austria's secret marriage with the daughter of one of King Philip's officers is the culminating point of this story.... An assassination, a near approach to a palace revolution, a great scandal, and some very pretty love-making, besides much planning and plotting, take place."—Boston Transcript. "Mr. Crawford wastes no time in trying to re-create history, but puts his reader into the midst of those bygone scenes and makes him live in them.... In scenes of stirring dramatic intensity.... It all seems intensely real so long as one is under the novelist's spell."—Chicago Tribune. "No man lives who can endow a love tale with a rarer charm than Crawford."—San Francisco Evening Bulletin. "No book of the season has been more eagerly anticipated, and none has given more complete satisfaction ... a drama of marvellous power and exceptional brilliancy, forceful and striking ... holding the reader's interest spell-bound from the first page of the story to the last, reached all too soon."—The Augusta Herald. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK THE REIGN OF LAW A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields By JAMES LANE ALLEN Author of "The Choir Invisible," "A Kentucky Cardinal," etc. Illustrated by J. C. Earl and Harry Fenn Cloth. 12 mo. $1.50 "The whole book is a brilliant defence of Evolution, a scholarly statement of the case. Never before has that great science been so presented; never before has there been such a passionate yet thrilling appeal."—Courier Journal. "This is a tremendous subject to put into a novel; but the effort is so daring, and the treatment so frank and masterly on its scientific side, that the book is certain to command a wide hearing, perhaps to provoke wide controversy."—Tribune, Chicago. "'When a man has heard the great things calling to him, how they call, and call, day and night, day and night!' This is really the foundation idea, the golden text, of Mr. James Lane Allen's new and remarkable novel."—Evening Transcript, Boston. "In all the characteristics that give Mr. Allen's novels such distinction and charm 'The Reign of Law' is perhaps supreme ... but it is pre-eminently the study of a soul ... religion is here the dominant note."—The New York Times' Saturday Review. "In David there is presented one of the noblest types of our fiction; the incarnation of brilliant mentality and splendid manhood.... No portrait in contemporary literature is more symbolic of truth and honor."—The Times, Louisville. "Mr. Allen has a style as original and almost as perfectly finished as Hawthorne's, and he has also Hawthorne's fondness for spiritual suggestion that makes all his stories rich in the qualities that are lacking in so many novels of the period.... If read in the right way, it cannot fail to add to one's spiritual possessions."—San Francisco Chronicle. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK |
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