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The Life of

ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON

By GRAHAM BALFOUR

with valuable autobiographical material found after
Stevenson's death; also unpublished portraits
of Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson.

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The New York
Times Saturday
Review says:

THE MOST
IMPORTANT

BIOGRAPHY

OF THE SEASON

CONTENTS

VOLUME I.

1.

His Ancestors.

2.

His Parents.

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10.

The Riviera—1882-84

1880-82.

VOLUME II.

Bournemouth-1884-87.

II.

12.

The United States

1887-88.

13.

The Eastern Pacific

1888-89.

14.

The Central Pacific-
1889-91.

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"Mr. Balfour's work as editor could scarcely have been better done. The volumes, moreover, contain much entirely new mat

ter, and even where familiar ground has necessarily been gone over the work has been done in sympathetic and unhackneyed fashion. Indeed, the memoir perhaps will have an even warmer welcome than that accorded to the letters. Mr. Balfour's record tempts to quotation on almost every page. His entire sympathy with his subject, never degenerating into mere hero worship, makes his concluding chapter of some thirty pages— 'R. L. S.'—one of the most fascinating portions of an entirely fascinating book."

In two volumes, uniform with the Letters, 500 pages, $4.00 net (postage 30 cents)

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EUGENE FIELD

A Study in Heredity and Contradictions

By SLASON THOMPSON, of the Chicago" Record Herald," Collator of "Sharps and Flats."

With many portraits, views, and reproductions in black and white and in colors of original manuscripts and drawings by Eugene Field, and many letters.

THE

HE real man as he appeared to his intimate friends in his hours of work and of relaxation-this is the portrait which Mr. Slason Thompson has drawn of his comrade in this book. The foundation of the work consists of the author's recollections.

It recalls numberless incidents in Field's life all of which have, in addition to their intrinsic interest, dramatic, humorous, or what not, a high value for the light they throw upon the traits of the man-his kindliness, his sweetness, his love of practical jokes and all kinds of fun, his taste for books, his hatred of shams and pretense, his interest in politics and the theatre, his affection for children, etc.

In two volumes, $3.00 net (postage 25 cents)

CONTENTS

Pedigree.
Parentage.

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PLUTARCH'S THEMISTO-
CLES AND ARISTIDES

A new translation from the original, with
Introduction and Notes aud several illustrations.

By BERNADOTTE PERRIN.
Professor of Greek in Yale University.

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of Plutarch's Narratives, Professor
Perrin's Introduction and Notes con-
stitute a valuable contribution to
classical learning."-The Outlook.

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THE PIANOFORTE AND ÍTS
MUSIC

By Henry Edward Krehbiel
Author of "How to Listen to Music," etc.
With portraits and other illustrations.

This book aims to instruct rather
than entertain, and Mr. Krehbiel
brings to his task a knowledge and an
authority that are surpassed by no
other writer on music.

Part I. -The Instrument.
Part II.-The Composers.
Part III.-The Players.

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The NEW YORK

TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW says:

"It is long since any book of fiction has recalled so brilliantly the very spirit of days well known to a generation growing old."

The BOSTON TRANSCRIPT says:

"Not only are incidents crowded, they are jammed together, and these incidents are tremendously excit

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ALL

About

CHARLOTTE OLIVER

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ASPLENDID creature of

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Further Studies in Natural Appearances

By JOHN C. VAN DYKE
Author of " Art for Art's Sake," etc.

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Modern Athens

A

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Victorian Prose Masters

By W. C. BROWNELL, author of "French Art,” etc.

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THE CARLYLE ESSAY "What can be said about Mr. Brownell's essay on Carlyle, except that it is Mr. Brownell's, and therefore literature in the best, the highest sense of the word, a contribution to the criticism that makes for final judgments. This paper, so packed with mature reflection and well-balanced appreciation, must be read in its entirety, and read again, to be absorbed by the mind as a safe and familiar guide in the reading and understanding of the great Scotchman."

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turer verse, and

the titular poem is an

altogether original and

important production.

and OTHER

POEMS

By GEORGE SANTAY

ANA

Author of "The Sense of
Beauty"

R. SANTAYA

MRNA'S inspira

tion is as clear as his execution is exquisite, and in those qualities of verse that re

It is a review in varied ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES late to elevation of

metres of the ideas and
emotions awakened in
a penetrating, reflect-
ive and thoroughly
poetic mind by each
different detail of some
mighty minster.
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John Wesley
What Happened at the
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Christian Evidences
Ideal of a University
Walter Bagehot
J. A. Froude

Robert Browning
Is it Possible to Tell a
Good Book From a
Bad One?

The House of Commons
Sir Robert Peel
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thought and perfection
of form his poetry is
unsurpassed, if indeed
it is equalled, by any
of the American poets
of the present time.
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