Page:The Dial vol. 15 (July 1 - December 16, 1893).djvu/16

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

4

THE DIAL

[July 1, 1893.

D. Appleton & Co.’s New Books.

Many Inventions.

By Rudyard Kipling. Containing fourteen stories, several of which are now published for the first time, and two poems. 12mo, 450 pages. Cloth, $1.50.

The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib.

A new book by Sara Jeannette Duncan, author of "A Social Departure" and "An American Girl in London." The brilliant story of Mr. and Mrs. Browne's quaint and delightfully humorous experiences in India. With many illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

Questions at Issue.

By Edmund Gosse. 12mo. Cloth, $2.50.
Some of the literary "Questions" which Mr. Gosse discusses in this volume are: "The Tyranny fit the Novel," "The Influence of Democracy on Literature," "The Limits of Realism in Fiction," "Mr. Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories," "Shelley in 1892," and "Has America Produced a Poet?"

General Greene.

By Col. Francis V. Greene, author of "The Russian Army and Its Campaigns in Turkey," etc. The fourth volume in the Great Commanders Series, edited by Gen. James Grant Wilson. With portrait and maps. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.

Appletons' Guide-Book to Alaska.

By Miss E. R. Scidmore. With maps and illustrations. $1.25.
Miss Scidmore's writings on Alaska and the Northwest coast are already most favorably known, and her "Guide-Book " will be found to be an authority. It is fully illustrated, and contains many maps, several of which have been made specially for this book by recent explorers of remote regions. The descriptive and historical matter relating to Behring Sea and the fisheries, including particulars to date of the negotiations for international protection of the seals, will be found of timely interest.

The Standard American Guide-Book.

Appletons' General Guide to the United States.

With numerous maps and illustrations. New edition, revised to date. With Appendix devoted to the Columbian Exposition. 12mo. Flexible morocco, with tuck, $2.50. Part I., separately, New England and Middle States and Canada. Cloth, $1.25. Part II., Southern and Western States. Cloth, $1.25.
This well-known work, the standard guide-book for foreign visitors as well as American residents, is prepared with the special knowledge of an American. The editor has, during the past two years, traveled extensively over the entire United States for the express purpose of this revision, and has embodied new features and improved old ones as experience and observation have suggested. Itineraries of the principal cities have been prepared by a local expert in each case.

Appletons' Hand-Book of Summer Resorts.

With maps, illustrations, and table of railroad fares, etc. New edition, revised to date. Large 12mo. Paper, 50 cents.

Hypnotism, Mesmerism, and the New Witchcraft.

By Ernest Hart, formerly Surgeon to the West London Hospital, and Ophthalmic Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, London. With 20 illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"I venture to think that these papers will meet with general acceptance from the medical and scientific world, and that they will serve a useful purpose in dissipating some popular errors and a good deal of pseudo-scientific superstition."—From the Preface.

The Story of My Life.

By Georg Ebers, author of "Uarda," "An Egyptian Princess," "A Thorny Path," etc. With portraits. 16mo, $1.25.
The author here tells of his student life in Germany, his association with the movements like that for the establishment of kindergarten training, his acquaintance with distinguished men like Frcebel and the brothers Grimm, his interest in Egyptology and the history of ancient Greece and Rome, and the beginnings of his literary career. It is a book of historical as well as personal interest.

RECENT ISSUES IN APPLETONS'

Town and Country Library

Each, 12mo. Paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.

Lucia, Hugh, and Another.
By Mrs. J. H. Needel, author of "Stephen Allicott's Daughter," etc.

Suspected.
By Louisa Stratenus.

Singularly Deluded.
By the author of "Ideala."

The Voice of a Flower.
By E. Gerard, joint author of "A Sensitive Plant."

Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon.
By Hall Caine, author of "The Deemster," etc.

A Little Minx.
By Ada Cambridge, author of "The Three Miss Kings," "Not All in Vain," etc.

Children of Destiny.
By Molly Elliot Seawell, author of "Throckmorton," "Little Jarvis," etc.

Dr. Paull's Theory.
By Mrs. A. M. Diehl, author of "The Garden of Eden," etc.

Commander Mendoza.
By Juan Valera, author of "Pepita Ximenez," "Don Braulio," etc.

Stories in Black and White.

A Volume of Short Stories by Thomas Hardy, W. E. Norris, Mrs. Oliphant, Grant Allen, J. M. Barrie, W. Clark Russel, Mrs. E. Lynn Linton, and James Payn
With 27 illustrations.

For sale by all Booksellers, or sent by mail, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
D. APPLETON & CO., Nos. 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street, New York.