a wonderful old estate owned by the Sharrows since the Middle Ages. "It
is a book of flesh and blood and character, of individuality and power.
Real people walk through its pages and real motives and emotions direct
the movement of the story."--_New York Evening Sun_. "The spell of
Sharrow is cast over the reader before he knows it."--_Baltimore News_.


FAITH BRANDON. By Henrietta Dana Skinner, author of "Espiritu Santo,"
"Heart and Soul," etc. With Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.30 net. Postpaid,
$1.42.

Mrs. Skinner's new novel has for its heroine a most piquant and
delightful American girl, who, at the age of sixteen, falls in love with
a Russian prince. He is a man of lofty character with a serious purpose
in life and devotes his energies to political journalism. The course of
true love runs anything but smoothly. The story is full of action and
incident, and has especial interest through its warmth and color, its
pictures of life in Russia and the humanness of its characters. "A novel
of purpose as well as an enchaining romance."--_Springfield Union_.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE SECOND SHOT.

By Rufus Gillmore. Illustrated with Pen-and-Ink Sketches by Herman
Heyer. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net. Postpaid, $1.37.