In quest of gold he visits Mexico and there meets a dreamy-eyed maid who straightway gives him first place in her heart.  But an American girl has already won his love.  It is a pathetic situation and if one true woman’s heart breaks before the man’s mission is ended who is to blame?

There are many touching incidents in the book, but none more full of pathos than when the woman who loves bares her soul to the woman who is loved.

12mo., Cloth.

Price, $1.00.

STREET AND SMITH, New York and London

A BOOK FULL OF ‘HUMAN’ INTEREST

QUEER PEOPLE

By WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP.

Author of “DETMOLD.”

Not one story, but a number of charming storyettes, terse, snappy and absorbingly interesting.

There is a delightful pen sketch of a woman of small means who aspires to a connection with the smart set.  Her attempts to disguise the true state of affairs from her out-of-town friends are laughable; but the fun becomes tinged with pathos when she borrows a furnished mansion for an evening, and a rich relative, invited to dine with her, uncloaks the pitiable fraud.

The promising boy and the fond patroness are the chief characters in another brilliant character study in “Queer People.”

12mo., Cloth.

Price, $1.00.

STREET AND SMITH, New York and London

A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES.

Among the Freaks

By W.L.  ALDEN.

Here is a volume of unique interest, dealing as it does with the fortunes and misfortunes of the various “freaks” to be found in a Dime Museum.  It relates the woes of the original Wild Man of Borneo, tells how the Fat Woman tried to elope, of the marvelous mechanical tail the dwarf invented, of how the Mermaid boiled her tail, and of a thrilling plot hatched out by the Giant and others.  Full of telling illustrations.  Easily one of the best works this gifted writer has ever produced.

18mo., Cloth.

Price, 75 cents.

STREET AND SMITH, New York and London

A BOOK OF HEARTY LAUGHTER.

Things Generally

By MAX ADELER.

Here is a volume which is simply bubbling over with dry wit and good-natured humor, told as only this Prince of American Humorists can tell it.  Here are tales of country newspaper life, political life, trials of would-be inventors, hardships of a book-agent, domestic fits and misfits, perils of a ship-wrecked man, and a hundred others, warranted to make even the most sedate laugh.  Full of illustrations just as funny as the text.

18mo.  Cloth.

Price, 75 cents.

STREET AND SMITH, New York and London

“LAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR.”