Mr. Paternoster, however, is generous, and allows the reader to follow their separate adventures until the Lady of the Blue Motor is found again and properly vindicated of all save womanly courage and affection.  A unique romance, one continuous exciting series of adventure.

Clementina’s Highwayman.  ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of “The Flight of Georgiana,” “An Enemy to the King,” etc.

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50

Mr. Stephens has put into his new book, “Clementina’s Highwayman,” the finest qualities of plot, construction, and literary finish.

The story is laid in the mid-Georgian period.  It is a dashing, sparkling, vivacious comedy, with a heroine as lovely and changeable as an April day, and a hero all ardor and daring.

The exquisite quality of Mr. Stephens’s literary style clothes the story in a rich but delicate word-fabric; and never before have his setting and atmosphere been so perfect.

The Sorceress of Rome.  By NATHAN GALLIZIER, author of
“Castel del Monte,” etc.

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50

The love-story of Otto III., the boy emperor, and Stephania, wife of the Senator Crescentius of Rome, has already been made the basis of various German poems and plays.

Mr. Gallizier has used it for the main theme of “The Sorceress of Rome,” the second book of his trilogy of romances on the mediaeval life of Italy.  In detail and finish the book is a brilliant piece of work, describing clearly an exciting and strenuous period.  It possesses the same qualities as “Castel del Monte,” of which the Chicago Record Herald said:  “There is color, there is sumptuous word-painting in these pages; the action is terrific at times; vividness and life are in every part; brilliant descriptions entertain the reader; mystic scenes and prophecies give a singular fascination to the tale, which is strong and forceful in its portrayal.”

Hester of the Hills.  By GROVER CLAY.

Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.50

“Hester of the Hills” has a motif unusual in life, and new in fiction.  Its hero, who has only acquired his own strength and resourcefulness by a lifelong struggle against constitutional frailty, has come to make the question of bodily soundness his dominant thought.  He resolves to ensure strong constitutions to his children by marrying a physically perfect woman.  After long search, he finds this ideal in Hester, the daughter of a “cracker squatter,” of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.  But,—­he forgot to take into consideration that very vital emotion, love, which played havoc with his well-laid plans.

It is an ingenious combination of practical realism and imaginative fiction worked out to a thoroughly delightful and satisfying climax.

Prisoners of Fortune.  A TALE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY
COLONY.  BY RUEL PERLEY SMITH, author of “The Rival
Campers,” etc.