its moral effect. Its practical one was to make me endeavour to set it
right. I then learned for the first time how hopeless is the pursuit of
an error through the columns of the press, and soon gave up the chase._

_But in the course of my attempts to procure the reduction to which I
was entitled, I expressed a hope that the said author would live to
be seventy, and, further, that he would write four or five volumes as
long as his first in the interim. To my thinking, he has been as good
(or as bad) as his word, for this present volume is Vol. II.[A] of the
fourth story published since then, and the day of its publication will
be the author's seventieth birthday; or, if you consider the day of his
birth as a birthday, his seventy-first. I see nothing to be ashamed of
in the way this author has come to time, and can (so far) look with
complacency on the fact that we are each other._

[Footnote A: The English edition of this book is published in two
volumes.]

_At the risk of more Early Victorianism--I have a heavy score against
me!--may I use the rest of this fly-leaf, otherwise blank, to touch
on another point? I know that gossiping with one's readers is a
disreputable Early Victorian practice, and far from Modern, which
everything ought to be. But I will not detain mine long._

_I wish to protest against a misinterpretation that readers of fiction
will probably continue to make to the end of time, however strongly
authors may appeal against it._

_I refer to the practice of ascribing views--political, religious, or
otherwise--expressed by characters in a book to its author. It is as
unreasonable to do so as to impute every opinion spoken in a dream to
the dreamer himself. In this foregoing book, as in others, the author
has merely put on record what the characters he was dreaming of seemed
to him to say._

_I repudiate responsibility on his behalf. Hold a writer of pure
fiction answerable for the opinions of every one of his_ dramatis
personæ, _and he will be limited in the choice of them to folk who are
on all fours with everyone else--conformists of a venomous type--good
to be read about in bed by persons who suffer from insomnia, but good
for nothing else. Take the words of each character for what they are
worth, and if a character alleged by the tale to be sane says something
you don't agree with, condemn it as ill-drawn, if you like, but don't
call the author to account as if he had ventured to question the
validity of your own persuasions. Leave him a free hand, and he will_
verser comme si c'était pour soi, _and his books will be infinitely
more readable, even if some of his favourite characters utter incorrect
opinions_.

_I may add that if the readers of this novel want anything altered in
it, it shall be done in the second edition, provided that they are
unanimous and that it will leave the text consecutive._

  W. DE MORGAN.

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THE LONG GALLERY

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THE BUILDERS OF SPAIN

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

By R. M. Johnston, Assistant Professor in Harvard University 12mo. 278
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MRS. R. S. GARNETT'S THE INFAMOUS JOHN FRIEND

$1.50.

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THE AMERICAN NATURE SERIES

The primary object of this series is to answer questions which the
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unscientific intelligent person. But a collateral object will be to
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the American point of view. The series will be in six divisions.
(Prospectus on request). The following volumes are ready:

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A LORD OF LANDS

BY RAMSEY BENSON. $1.50.

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OVER AGAINST GREEN PEAK

BY ZEPHINE HUMPHREY. $1.25 net, by mail $1.33.

The homely experiences of a bright young woman and her Aunt Susan, not
to mention the "hired girl," in making a New England home.

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WILSON VANCE'S BIG JOHN BALDWIN

The Romance of a Cromwellian soldier, big of heart and body, in England
and in Virginia ($1.50).

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MRS. ALICE DUER MILLER'S LESS THAN KIN

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RICHARD BURTON'S MASTERS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL

A study of principles and personalities by the Professor of English
Literature, University of Minnesota, author of "Literary Likings,"
"Forces in Fiction," "Rahab" (a Poetic Drama), etc. 12mo, 331 pp. and
index. $1.25 net.

  _Contents_: Fiction and the Novel,--Eighteenth Century Beginnings:
  Richardson,--Eighteenth Century Beginnings: Fielding,--Developments:
  Smollett, Sterne and Others,--Realism: Jane Austen.--Modern
  Romanticism: Scott,--French Influence, Dickens,--Thackeray,--George
  Eliot,--Trollope and Others,--Hardy and Meredith,--Stevenson,--The
  American Contribution,--Index.

RICHARD BURTON'S RAHAB, A DRAMA OF THE FALL OF JERICHO

119 pp., 12mo. $1.25 net; by mail, $1.33. With cast of characters for
the first performance and pictures of the scenes.

  "A poetic drama of high quality. Plenty of dramatic action."--_New
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WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE'S THE GREATER ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY

383 pp., large 12mo. $2.00 net; by mail, $2.15. Studies of Keats,
Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson,
Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne. Their outlook upon life rather
than their strictly literary achievement is kept mainly in view.

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  of everything that is finest in nineteenth-century poetry. Ought to
  be read and reread by every student of literature, and most of all
  by those who have neglected English poetry, for here one finds its
  essence in brief compass."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

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THE LADY OF THE DYNAMOS

By ADELE MARIE SHAW and CARMELITA BECKWITH

310 pp. 12mo. $1.50.

A very appealing love story dominates this tale of the heroic struggle
of a young American electrical engineer and an English girl, against
treachery, superstition and open opposition, to harness a great water
power and reclaim a wilderness in Ceylon. There is plenty of humor as
well as of peril and suspense, and it works up to a climax, the most
exciting chapter being the last. The characters, principally American
and English, are so well defined that the effect is almost that of a
play acted before the reader's eyes.

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detail ... stands out as a bit of real life."--_Boston Transcript._

"A good story ... a fine likeable American man and a charming English
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picturesque setting will help many a pleased reader to compass a
verdict of praise."--_Chicago Record Herald._

"A vivid romance, combining marked virility with the most delicate play
of fancy and of sentiment ... holds the interest from beginning to end.
The surprise of the narrative is the consummate ease with which two
women writers handle the details of the great electrical power plant
and mammoth business enterprise."--_San Francisco Chronicle._

THE PILGRIM'S MARCH

By H. H. BASHFORD

320 pp. 12mo. Third Printing, $1.50.

A happily written English story with a theme of wide appeal. A likable
youth with artistic tendencies is converted, for a time at least, to
the ways, and works, and daughter of a puritan family. The situation is
worked out with humor and in an atmosphere of good breeding.

"Extremely clever and charming."--_Prof. Wm. Lyon Phelps of Yale._

"A sureness of touch, a sympathetic understanding that deserve high
praise."--_The Bookman._

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of the personal note."--_Richard Aldrich in New York Times Review._
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CHAPTERS OF OPERA

Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the
Lyric Drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time.

  By HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL

Musical critic of the New York Tribune, Author of "Music and Manners in
the Classical Period," "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," "How to Listen
to Music," etc. With over 70 portraits and pictures of Opera Houses.
Second edition, revised.

$3.50 net; by mail $3.72. Illustrated circular on application.

This is perhaps Mr. Krehbiel's most important book. The first seven
chapters deal with the earliest operatic performances in New York.
Then follows a brilliant account of the first quarter-century of the
Metropolitan, 1883-1908. He tells how Abbey's first disastrous Italian
season was followed by seven seasons of German Opera under Leopold
Damrosch and Stanton, how this was temporarily eclipsed by French and
Italian, and then returned to dwell with them in harmony, thanks to
Walter Damrosch's brilliant crusade,--also of the burning of the opera
house, the vicissitudes of the American Opera Company, the coming
and passing of Grau and Conried, and finally the opening of Oscar
Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House and the first two seasons therein,
1906-08.

  "Presented not only in a readable manner but without bias ...
  extremely interesting and valuable."--_Nation._

  "The illustrations are a true embellishment.... Mr. Krehbiel's style
  was never more charming. It is a delight."--_Philip Hale in Boston
  Herald._

  "A readable and valuable book, which no one who is interested in
  the subject can afford to leave out of his library ... written in
  entertaining manner, and it is comprehensive."--_Putnam._

  "Invaluable for purpose of reference ... rich in critical passages
  ... all the great singers of the world have been heard here. Most
  of the great conductors have come to our shores.... Memories of
  them which serve to humanize, as it were, his analyses of their
  work."--_New York Tribune._

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  "_The most important biographic contribution to musical literature
  since the beginning of the century, with the exception of Wagner's
  Letters to Frau Wesendonck."_
    --H. T. FINCK, IN THE NEW YORK EVENING POST.

  (Circular with complete review and sample pages on application.)

Personal Recollections of Wagner

BY ANGELO NEUMANN

  Translated from the fourth German edition by EDITH LIVERMORE.
  Large 12mo. 318 pp., with portraits and one of Wagner's letters in
  facsimile. $2.50 net; by mail $2.65.

Probably no man ever did more to make Wagner's music dramas known than
Angelo Neumann, who, with his famous "Wagner Travelling Theatre,"
carrying his artists, orchestra, scenery and elaborate mechanical
devices, toured Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Russia,
and with another organization gave "The Ring" in London. But the
account of this tour, interesting as it is, is not the main feature of
his book, which abounds in intimate glimpses of Wagner at rehearsals,
at Wahnfried and elsewhere, and tells much of the great conductor,
Anton Seidl, so beloved by Americans. Among other striking figures are
Nikisch and Muck, both conductors of the Boston Symphony orchestra,
Mottl, the Vogls, Von Bulow, Materna, Marianna Brandt, Klafsky, and
Reicher-Kindermann.

It is doubtful if any book gives a more vivid and truthful picture of
life and "politics" behind the scenes of various opera houses. Many of
the episodes, such as those of a bearded Brynhild, the comedy writer
and the horn player and the prince and the Rhinedaughter are decidedly
humorous.

The earlier portions of the book tell of the Leipsic negotiations and
performances, the great struggle with Von Hülsen, the royal intendant
at Berlin, Bayreuth and "Parsifal." Many of Wagner's letters appear
here for the first time.

_ILLUSTRATIONS._--RICHARD WAGNER: Bust by Anton zur Strassen in the
foyer of the Leipsic Stadttheater.--ANGELO NEUMANN: From a picture
in the Künstlerzimmer of the Leipsic Stadttheater.--ANTON SEIDL:
Bas-relief by Winifred Holt of New York. Replica commissioned by Herr
Direktor Neumann.--HEDWIG REICHER-KINDERMANN--Facsimile of letter from
Wagner to Neumann, received after the news of Wagner's death.

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A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (1774-1882)

De Alva Stanwood Alexander, A.M.

_Vols. I. & II. (1774-1861). 840 pp., 8vo. $5.00 net_ (_carriage 40c.
extra_)

_Vol. III. (1861-1882). 561 pp., 8vo. $2.50 net_ (_carriage 28c. extra_)

A history of the movements of political parties in New York State from
1774 to 1882, and embraces a series of brilliant character studies
of the leaders, most of them of national importance, who, from the
days of George Clinton, have drawn the attention of the nation to New
York. The astute methods and sources of power by which George Clinton,
Hamilton, Burr, DeWitt Clinton, Van Buren, Seymour and Thurlow Weed
each successively controlled the political destiny of the State are
clearly and picturesquely set forth. The third volume narrates, fully
and entertainingly, the futile efforts of Weed and Dean Richmond to
reorganize existing parties, the rise and fall of the Tweed Ring,
Conkling's punishment of Greeley and defeat of Fenton, Tilden's
defiance of Tammany and struggle with Kelly, and the overthrow of the
Stalwart régime by the crushing victory of Grover Cleveland. Throughout
it is characterized, too, with a fairness which must appeal to the
strongest partisan. (Circular with sample pages on application.)

"It meets a want widely felt and repeatedly expressed during the past
hundred years.... It would be impossible in a dozen notices to render
any sort of justice to the extensive scope of this work and to the
multiplicity of its interesting details."--From two leading articles,
aggregating over ten columns, in the _New York Sun_.

"Will undoubtedly take its place as the authoritative work upon the
subject."--_Boston Transcript._

"The most entertaining story of state politics in American
history."--_Review of Reviews._

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JOHN DAVIS' TRAVELS OF FOUR YEARS AND A HALF IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA (1798-1802)

Dedicated by permission to Thomas Jefferson. Esq. First Published,
London, 1803. With Introduction and Notes by Alfred J. Morrison. 8vo,
429 pps. $2.50 net, by mail $2.65.

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purely. It is a story of wanderings from New York to South Carolina,
and as such affords a most interesting picture of the greater part
of the United States at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The
author was a novelist and shows it in his book. A necessary book for
even an exclusive collection of Americana. Measured by any standard an
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Transcriber's note:

All instances of the oe-ligature were transcribed as 'oe'.

Mismatched single and double quotation marks were corrected without
comment.

Typographical errors in the advertisements were corrected without
comment.

Spelling and word usage have been retained as they apear in the
original publication, except as follows:

     Page   From                        To
       vi   YOUKG                       YOUNG
       64   had an orginal in           had an original in
       75   in them last nigt           in them last night
       90   the ivorycarver' shop       the ivorycarvers' shop
       91   If not ivory carvers        If not ivorycarvers
            not not anything            not anything
      206   Afred Challis               Alfred Challis
      227   Adeline Forsett's           Adeline Fossett's
      232   she was negletced           she was neglected
      249   the Art Coiffeur            the Art Coiffure
      272   arithmetic and caligraphy   arithmetic and calligraphy
      302   Tyepwriter. For the         Typewriter. For the
      321   compensation folllowed      compensation followed
      344   tone was puzzle             tone was puzzled
      418   She dimisses nuptial        She dismisses nuptial
      445   a dreadful hyprocite        a dreadful hypocrite
      475   reloaded her arbalast       reloaded her arbalest
      595   inclined to disappove       inclined to disapprove
      613   she have have thought       she have thought
      636   as hardly legititmate       as hardly legitimate
      645   quarrel with you wife       quarrel with your wife
      649   Sir Alfred Chalis           Sir Alfred Challis