_"LA BELLA" AND OTHERS._ By EGERTON CASTLE, author of "Consequences." Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"The stories will be welcomed with a sense of refreshing pungency by readers who have been cloyed by a too long succession of insipid sweetness and familiar incident."--_London Athenæum._
"The author is gifted with a lively fancy, and the clever plots he has devised gain greatly in interest, thanks to the unfamiliar surroundings in which the action for the most part takes place."--_London Literary World._
"Eight stories, all exhibiting notable originality in conception and mastery of art, the first two illustrating them best. They add a dramatic power that makes them masterpieces. Both belong to the period when fencing was most skillful, and illustrate its practice."--_Boston Globe._
_THE THREE MUSKETEERS._ By ALEXANDRE DUMAS. An _édition de luxe_ (limited to 750 copies), with 250 Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. In two volumes. Royal 8vo. Buckram, with specially designed cover. $12.00.
By arrangement with the French publishers. Messrs. D. Appleton & Company have secured the American rights for this, the finest edition of Dumas's immortal romance which has been published. The illustrations are carefully printed from the original blocks, and this edition therefore has an unapproachable distinction in point of pictorial quality.
The translation has been scrupulously revised, and every effort has been made to present a perfect edition of Dumas's masterpiece.
"Such a book lends itself to the draughtsman's art, and both requires and rewards decoration. But it must be decoration of the best; and it has waited long. At length, however--I have it before me now--an edition has been prepared which should satisfy both the lovers of black and white and the lovers of picturesque fiction.... It is scarcely too much to say that were Alexandre Dumas alive to-day, to see this latest form of his greatest work--first published exactly fifty years ago--he who loved the sumptuous with an almost tropical fervor, and built a grand theater for the production of his own dramas, would weep tears of joy over his offspring."--STANLEY J. WEYMAN, in _The Book Buyer_.
_PAUL AND VIRGINIA._ By BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. With a Biographical Sketch, and numerous Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, uniform with "Picciola," "The Story of Colette," and "An Attic Philosopher in Paris." $1.50.