David Harum. A Story of American Life.

Illustrated Edition. With 70 full-page and text pictures by B. West Clinedinst, and other text designs by C. D. Farrand, and a biography of the author by Forbes Heermans. 12mo. $1.50.

Edition de Luxe. Printed in tints, with copperplate photogravures and other illustrations. 8vo. Large paper, uncut. $5.00 net.

"The newsboys on the street can talk of David Harum,' but scarcely a week ago we heard an intelligent girl of fifteen, in a house which entertains the best of the daily papers and the weekly reviews, ask, 'Who is Kipling?'" The Literary World, Boston.

"We give Edward Noyes Westcott his true place in American lettersplacing him as a humorist next to Mark Twain, as a master of dialect above Lowell, as a descriptive writer equal to Bret Harte, and, on the whole, as a novelist on a par with the best of those who live and have their being in the heart of hearts of American readers. If the author is dead-lamentable fact-his book will live.”—Philadelphia Item.

The Teller.

Illustrated.

I 2mo.

Cloth, $1.00.

The publishers of "David Harum" have the pleasure of presenting the only other story written by the lamented Edward Noyes Westcott. Mr. Westcott's business life lay with practical financial matters, and in "The Teller" he has drawn upon his knowledge of life in a bank. It is unnecessary to emphasize the interest attaching to the only other work in fiction done by the author of "David Harum.”

Fortunately for the readers of this masterpiece, Mr. Westcott wrote several letters in regard to the book while he was engaged upon the manuscript, and these, with other letters, have been preserved. They have been edited for publication by his sister, and are included in this volume. A biography of Mr. Westcott is added by his friend, Mr. Forbes Heermans, who describes the manner in which "David Harum" was written. Some peculiarly interesting portraits of Mr. Westcott and a picture of his home illustrate the book.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. New and Revised Edition. 112 Illustrations by A. B. Frost. Library Edition. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00.

"An exquisite volume, full of good illustrations, and if there is anybody in this country who doesn't know Mr. Harris, here is an opportunity to make his acquaintance and have many a good laugh "—New York Herald.

"Mr. Harris has made a real addition to literature purely and strikingly American, and Mr. Frost has aided in fixing the work indelibly on the consciousness of the American reader."-The Churchman.

"We say it with the utmost faith that there is not an artist who works in illustration that can catch the attitude and expression, the slyness, the innate depravity, the eye of surprise, obstinacy, the hang of the head or the kick of the heels of the mute and the brute creation as Mr. Frost has shown to us here."-Baltimore Sun.

"Nobody could possibly have done this work better than Mr. Frost, whose appreciation of negro life fitted him especially to be the interpreter of Uncle Remus,' and whose sense of the humor in animal life makes these drawings really illustrations in the fullest sense. Mr. Harris's well-known work has become in a sense a classic, and this may be accepted as the standard edition."-Philadelphia Times.

"The old tales of the plantation have never been told as Mr. Harris has told them. Each narrative is to the point, and so swift in its action upon the risibilities of the reader that one almost loses consciousness of the printed page, and fancies it is the voice of the lovable old darky himself that steals across the senses and brings mirth inextinguishable as it comes."- New York Tribune.

On the Plantation.

With 23 Illustrations by E. W. Kemble, and Portrait of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"The book is in the characteristic vein which has made the author so famous and popular as an interpreter of plantation character.”—Rochester Union and Advertiser.

"These who never tire of Uncle Remus and his stories-with whom we would be accounted-will delight in Joe Maxwell and his exploits."-London Saturday Review.

"A charming little book, tastefully gotten up. .. Its simplicity, humor, and individuality would be very welcome to any one who was weary of the pretentiousness and the dull obviousness of the average three-volume novel." -London Chronicle.

"Really a valuable, if modest, contribution to the history of the civil war within the Confederate lines, particularly on the eve of the catastrophe. Two or three new animal fables are introduced with effect; but the history of the plantation, the printing-office, the black runaways, and white deserters, of whom the impending break up made the community tolerant, the coon and fox hunting, forms the serious purpose of the book, and holds the reader's interest from beginning to end."-New York Evening Post.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

The Captain's Toll-Gate.

A Complete Posthumous Novel by FRANK R. STOCKTON, Author of "Kate Bonnet,' The Lady or the Tiger," etc. With a Memoir by Mrs. Stockton, an Etched Portrait, Views of Mr. Stockton's Home, and a Bibliography. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

The scene is partly laid in Washington but mainly in that part of West Virginia where the author spent the last three years of his life. Incidents centering about the "Toll-Gate" and a fashionable country home in the neighborhood are related with the author's peculiar humor and charm of diction which have endeared him to a host of readers.

The heroine who is an embodiment of the healthy vigorous girl of to-day, and her several suitors, together with the mistress of the country house and a meddlesome unmarried woman of the village, combine to present a fascinating and varied picture of social life to the present day.

"In the story we have the real Stockton at his best and brightest. The fun, the whimsicality, the queer doings, the very delightful people are such as his readers have been entertained with for so many years. The fertility of invention and 'ngenuity is as fresh as in the early stories, and perhaps Mr. Stockton never came nearer to success in trying to keep a long story together to the end without digressions or a break in the plot. The heroine is a charming girl, her married hostess still more charming, and there are plenty of others the reader will be glad to meet.

"Mrs. Stockton's sketch of her husband gives us a glimpse of a lovable and delightful personality and shows the author at work just as the readers must have imagined him. Swinging in a hammock under the fir trees, or when winter came, in an easy chair before a big log fire, he dreamed his fancies and dictated them, bit by bit, as they came, to his secretary."--New York Sun.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

A NOVEL OF REAL IMPORTANCE.

The Law of Life.

By ANNA MCCLURE SHOLL.

12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

This remarkable novel presents an entirely new, and a very entertaining feature of American national and social development. Miss Sholl has sought her inspiration in the life and interests of a large University, as that life is felt and known from the faculty and postgraduate standpoint. The author has brought to this fascinating and unfamiliar subject a close personal knowledge and an enthusiastic appreciation of its possibilities for literary purposes.

The following letter, wholly unsolicited, and written by a stranger, was received by the author of this book within two weeks from the date on which the book was published. The writer's name is here withheld by request, but it may properly be said that he is the President of the Bar Association in one of the largest cities of the United States west of the Alleghanies.

"September 5, 1903.

"I write to say that I have just finished reading your story, "The Law of Life," and have found it a work of unusual merit. I do not pose as a literary critic, nor as one who pretends to read the many works of fiction which crowd the market rather as one who does not; but I do, now and then, read a story which interests me. When I took up your book i did not know whether should care to finish it, but soon discovered that it displayed a refinement and felicity of expression and a keenness of discrimination and analysis not common to American writers of fiction.

"The colloquial portions are brilliant, and the subtleties of conflicting emotions and motives are portrayed with great power and skill. The story as a whole is a tribute to the cleverness of the author of which she has a just right to feel proud. One of the charms of the book lies in the manner of outlining pictures of nature in apt phrase without being effusive. The scenes are all well defined without excess of verbiage. This is so rare in works of fiction as to merit attention.

"Please excuse this liberty. You do not need encouragement, I am sure, but I hope you are not averse to being told when you have done something worthy of mention. In fact, no one could write so good a story who was indifferent to public opinion. Absolving you from the slightest obligation to answer, I beg to subscribe myself, though a stranger,

Very sincerely yours,"

D.

APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.