PAGE'S COMMONWEALTH SERIES
Literary growth in America has been of late years as rapid as its material and economical progress. The vast size of the country, the climatic and moral conditions of its different parts, and the separate political and social elements, have all tended to create distinct methods of literary expression in various sections. In offering from time to time the books in the "COMMONWEALTH SERIES," we shall select a novel or story descriptive of the methods of thought and life of that particular section of the country which each author represents. The elegance of paper, press-work, and binding, and the lavish and artistic illustrations, as well as the convenient size, add not a little to the attractiveness of the volumes.
Number 5. (Illinois) The Russells in Chicago. By Emily Wheaton. Illustrated with full-page drawings by F. C. Ransom, and numerous reproductions from original photographs.
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This entertaining story is the narrative of the experiences of two young people from Boston who take up their residence in the wilds by Lake Michigan. The characteristics of life in the great Western metropolis, as well as the foibles of the impeccable Eastern critic, are touched with a gentle and amusing satire, as kindly as it is observant and keen.
Even without the omen of success afforded in the previous numbers of this popular series, it is safe to predict a most favorable reception for this charming story.
Number 6. (New York) Councils of Croesus. By Mary Knight Potter, author of "Love in Art," etc.
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A clever and vivacious story of life in New York society circles.
