MANY INVENTIONS. BY RUDYARD Kipling. Containing Fourteen Stories and Two Poems. 12mo, 427 pages. "The reader turns from its pages with the conviction that the author has no super rtor to-day in animated narrative and virility of style. He remains master of a power in which none of his contemporaries approach him-the ability to select out of countless letails the few vital ones which create the finished picture. He knows how, with a phrase or a word, to make you see his characters as he sees them, to make you feel the full meaning of a dramatic situation."-New York Tribune. ... "Many Inventions' will confirm Mr. Kipling's reputation.. We would cite with pleasure_sentences from almost every page, and extract incidents from almost every story. But to what end? Here is the completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view."— Pall Mall Gazette. "Mr. Kipling's powers as a story-teller are evidently not diminishing. We advise everybody to buy 'Many Inventions,' and to profit by some of the best entertainment that modern fiction has to offer."-New York Sun. "Many Inventions' will be welcomed wherever the English language is spoken. Every one of the stories bears the imprint of a master who conjures up incident as if by magic, and who portrays character, scenery, and feeling with an ease which is only exceeded by the boldness of force."-Boston Globe. "The book will get and hold the closest attention of the reader.”—American Bookseller. "Mr. Rudyard Kipling's place in the world of letters is unique. He sits quite aloof and alone, the incomparable and inimitable master of the exquisitely fine art of shortstory writing. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson has perhaps written several tales which match the run of Mr. Kipling's work, but the best of Mr. Kipling's tales are matchless, and his latest collection, 'Many Inventions,' contains several such."-Philadelphia Press. "Of late essays in fiction the work of Kipling can be compared to only threeBlackmore's 'Lorna Doone,' Stevenson's marvelous sketch of Villon in the 'New Arabian Nights,' and Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.' It is probably owing to this extreme care that 'Many Inventions' is undoubtedly Mr. Kipling's best book."-Chicago Post. "Mr. Kipling's style is too well known to American readers to require introduction, but it can scarcely be amiss to say there is not a story in this collection that does not more than repay a perusal of them all."-Baltimore American. "As a writer of short stories Rudyard Kipling is a genius. He has had imitators, but they have not been successful in dimming the luster of his achievements by con trast...... 'Many Inventions' is the title. And they are inventions entirely origi nal in incident, ingenious in plot, and startling by their boldness and force."-Rochester Herald. "How clever he is! This must always be the first thought on reading such a collection of Kipling's stories. Here is art-art of the most consummate sort. Compared with this, the stories of our brightest young writers become commonplace.". New York Evangelist. "Taking the group as a whole, it may be said that the execution is up to his best in the past, while two or three sketches surpass in rounded strength and vividness of Imagination anything else he has done."-Hartford Courant. "Fifteen more extraordinary sketches, without a tinge of sensationalism, it would be hard to find. Every one has an individuality of its own which fascinates they header."-Boston Times. D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue, New York. THE HE BEGINNERS OF A NATION. A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People. The first volume in A History of Life in the United States. By EDWARD EGGLESTON. Small 8vo. gilt top, uncut, with Maps, $1.50. Cloth, It is nearly seventeen years since the studies for this book were begun. In January, 1880, having decided to write a History of Life in the United States, Mr. Eggleston employed himself during convalescence in seeking books bearing on the subject on all the quays of Paris. From that beginning has grown the large and valuable collection of many thousand books relating to American history, and to social, industrial, and intellectual life generally in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which fill the walls of a stone library building on Lake George. Mr. Eggleston has produced, in the years since that beginning was made, two novels and several schoolbooks on American history, now widely used; but eleven of the last seventeen years have been wholly given up to investigations and studies which find their first permanent result in the present volume. Thirteen articles on Colonial Life were contributed to the Century Magazine by the author between 1882 and 1889. They were recognized at once as authority on the subject, were quoted in learned works, were discussed by at least one scholar in a German periodical, were placed in class libraries in leading institutions of learning, and were cited by a well-known professor as "the only authority on colonial life to be depended on." Mr. Eggleston was importuned to gather them into a book, but his project had grown with his knowledge of the subject, and he has given himself of late years to produce on an entirely new plan the first of a series of volumes, each to be complete in itself, which as a whole shall represent the life of the people of the United States in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In order to do this, it has been necessary not only to prosecute studies in most of the great public libraries of this country, but also to make repeated sojourns in Europe for the purpose of investigations in the British Museum and the State Paper Department of the Record Office, and the French National Library. Mr. Eggleston gained access also to papers not before used in private repositories in England and America. To get local color and additional information, he has visited all of the original thirteen colonies. The first installment of this historical series is thus the ripe fruit of many years of tireless investigation. The book has been wrought out and thought out thoroughly, and the initial stage of United States history is presented here in a light strangely different from that to which readers of history have been accustomed. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. THE STORY, OF THE WEST SERIES. Edited by Ripley Hitchcock. "There is a vast extent of territory lying between the Missouri River and the Pacific coast which has barely been skimmed over so far. That the conditions of life therein are undergoing changes little short of marvelous will be understood when one recalls the fact that the first white male child born in Kansas is still living there; and Kansas is by no means one of the newer States. Revolutionary indeed has been the upturning of the old condition of affairs, and little remains thereof, and less will remain as each year goes by, until presently there will be only tradition of the Sioux and Comanches, the cowboy life, the wild horse, and the antelope. Histories, many of them, have been written about the Western country alluded to, but most if not practically all by outsiders who knew not personally that life of kaleidoscopic allurement. But ere it shall have vanished forever we are likely to have truthful, complete, and charming portrayals of it produced by men who actually knew the life and have the power to describe it.”— Henry Edward Rood, in the Mail and Express. THE NOW READY. HE STORY OF THE INDIAN. By GEORGE "In every way worthy of an author who, as an authority upon the Western Indians, is second to none. A book full of color, abounding in observation, and remarkable in sustained interest, it is at the same time characterized by a grace of style which is rarely to be looked for in such a work, and which adds not a little to the charm of it."—London Daily Chronicle. 66 Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer us a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the Indian in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long association with Indians can enable a white man measurably to comprehend their thoughts and enter into their feelings. 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