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GASLIGHT SONATAS. By Fannie Hurst.

Women's hearts are what she uncovers in her new book. Selfish and self-denying, frivolous and simple, all beat with life, each in its own rhythm of femininity.

MY BOY IN KHAKI. By Della Thompson Lutes.

A story of a mother who must give up her son and realizes that this is the right thing to do; a remarkable message of comfort to every American mother.

THE GIRL IN HIS HOUSE. By Harold MacGrath.

An Arabian Nights mystery in modern New York. A rich clubman, a taxi-cab, a respectable house-and presto! there is a mystery fit for a king.

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. By Rupert Hughes.

A novel based on the brutality of the German soldiers toward defenceless women in the war zone and especially in Belgium. The plot is woven round two American women caught by the invaders in a Belgium convent and a third woman, who attempts to save them.

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THE DEVIL TO PAY. By Frances Nimmo Greene.

A thrilling story of love and mystery beginning with the execution of a cashier for murder and the indictment of the bank president for complicity, and ending with many surprises.

MISS PIM'S CAMOUFLAGE. By Lady Stanley.

A story of humour and adventure, about a British spinster's part in the war.

MARY REGAN. By Leroy Scott.

The adventures of a member of the criminal aristocracy: as Life puts her to the test, a new Mary Regan is developed which she did not guess existed in herself.

THE STATUE IN THE WOOD. By Richard Pryce.

A story with the same qualities of sympathy and delicacy which characterise the author's other work, and with a singularly penetrating knowledge of woman's nature. IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE. By Mary C. E. Wemyss.

Humour and sentiment make charming this characteristic story of the author, in which an unconventional and entirely human married pair involve a group of young people in their affairs.

THE STANDARD-BEARERS. By Katherine Mayo.

Tales of the Pennsylvania constabulary— the types of adventure which make up the day's work of State cavalrymen. Some of these stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the Saturday Evening Post.

NOBODY'S CHILD. By Elizabeth Dejeans.

A dramatic novel built on family antagonism. From the clash of powerful personalities grows a passionate love story.

OVER HERE. By Ethel M. Kelly.

The story of a war bride-a romance of sacrifice.

THE HOUSE OF INTRIGUE. By Ar

thur Stringer.

A sit-up-all-night-till-you-finish-it story about a young man with something up his sleeve, and a girl who may be either a crook or a crook-catcher until the last chapter.

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The name of a writer of Louisiana negro stories whose work is so characteristic as to need no other title.

A GIRL ALONE. By H. Evans.

A story of a plucky young woman in London who beat the world that tried to crush her.

THE SECRET OF THE MARNE. By

Marcel Berger and Maud Berger. How Sergeant Fritsch saved France-a novel built around the events of the glorious Marne week and reading like a detective story.

JUST OUTSIDE. By Stacy Aumonier.

The struggle between personality and environment set forth in this author's latest novel, will appeal especially to a person of moods-in fact to people who are not merely motivated vegetables.

THE HAPPIEST TIME OF THEIR

LIVES. By Alice Duer Miller.

A love story of the smart set of New York, dealing with the idea of whether sheltered women are stronger or weaker in a crisis than their independent sisters.

THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER. By Rebecca West.

An English love story of poignancy and splendour, with the background of the war; its plot is unique in fiction.

THE PRETTY LADY. By Arnold Bennett.

The author in a new mood, with all his human lovable qualities in high relief; he deals with certain aspects of social life at home in West End London during the war, sympathetically interpreting the experiences of a rich bachelor of fifty.

CASTE THREE. By Gertrude M. Shields.

A fascinating story of small-town life in the Middle West, in which a young man of pseudo-intellectual ambitions is led to change his ideas.

SECRET BREAD. By F. Tennyson

Jesse (new and revised edition). An impressive work of recent English fiction-the life drama of a man and his search for spiritual rest, the "secret bread" by which all men live.

THE SPY IN BLACK. By J. Storer Clouston.

A tale of secret service, plots, and German spies-beginning with the landing of a U-boat on an English coast, with a dramatic climax in a house on the cliffs.

NOCTURNE. By Frank Swinnerton.

Events occurring in a single night, involving five or six characters. H. G. Wells says, "It is a book that will not die."

PIECES OF EIGHT. By Richard LeGallienne.

A modern tale of buried treasure and the West Indies, with the word painting of the poet-a story to make the reader forget the collapse of Russia, the H.C.L., and other things of the kind.

THE MAKING OF GEORGE GROTON. By Bruce Barton.

The story of an average man's success in business and in love.

THE THREE OF HEARTS. By Berta

Ruck (Mrs. Oliver Onions).

The amusing trials of a British infantryman who proposed to three girls in one evening and was accepted by all three.

THE GRAFTONS. By Archibald Marshall.

More about the delightful English family introduced in Abington Abbey-though in no sense a sequel to that story.

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This new volume of The American Nation, edited by Professor Hart, of Harvard, furnishes an authoritative and compact history of the last decade, 1907-1917.

ILLINOIS. By Grace Humphrey.

A history told with the accuracy of the professional historian and with the charm of the born romancer.

A SHORT HISTORY OF ROME. By Guglielmo Ferrero. (2 vols.)

The author's method of exposition is not a piece-meal account of events, but an organic exposition of progress and development.

A SHORT HISTORY OF FRANCE. By Mary Duclaux.

A compact unity, giving an impression of France's history in prospective. EUROPE'S FATEFUL HOUR. By Guglielmo Ferrero.

The fundamental causes and issues of the war from the point of view of a great Italian historian.

AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY. By Ul

rich B. Phillips.

The entire story of American negro slavery from its beginning including an account of plantation life up to the Civil War.

MISCELLANEOUS

THE VOICE OF LINCOLN. By Judge R. M. Wanamaker.

A narrative text of biographical and historical significance. Lincoln's character and genius as revealed in his letters, conversations, and speeches.

TENTING TONIGHT. By Mary Roberts Rinehart.

The author's trip through the mountains of the West, giving the reader by proxy the delights of camping and hunting.

IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR. By Dr. Charles Wendell Townsend.

For nature lovers: an account of a summer cruise along the southern coast of Labrador.

CAPE COD, NEW AND OLD. By Agnes Edwards.

A charming and convenient collection of essays for the tourist.

PRINTING FOR PROFIT. By Charles Francis.

Fifty years of varied and instructive experience on three continents is interestingly set forth.

THE NEW BUSINESS OF FARMING. By Julian A. Dimock.

The treatment of the farmer's problems from the point of view of "business efficiency."

THE AMERICAN SPIRIT. By Franklin K. Lane.

A collection of addresses whose eloquence has moved the hearts of many Americans.

MARY ELIZABETH'S WAR TIME REC

IPES.

Recipes for many win-the-war delicacies by a famous cook.

SAVE IT FOR WINTER. By Frederick F. Rockwell.

A practical manual of food preservation, for the housekeeper and gardener.

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