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The Monk and the Dancer

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By ARTHUR cossleTT SMITH. Second Edition.
HE half-dozen stories in this collection are all that short stories should be-pithy,

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portray. He also has a rare power of suggestion. It is difficult to tell just where the actual delineation ends and the suggestion begins, so clever are the few light strokes with which he depicts his people."-Chicago Tribune.

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Toomey and Others

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By ROBERT SHACKLETON. Illustrated.
ETTER stories of New York East Side life have never been written.

Mr. Shackleton has the training of the New York journalist; he has the knowledge which only long acquaintance with the people portrayed could possibly give; and he has humor, sympathy, and imagination."-The Outlook.

Smith College Stories.

By JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM. Second Edition. 12mo, $1.50. “T°

O turn to the jolly little stories about Smith College is like getting into sunlight after clouds. .. Miss Daskam's point of view is that of to-day. She deals with nearly all phases of the young woman student's life; she is clear and sympathetic. Her girls are real girls, different from others by just the difference which a Smith College training gives."-Chicago Evening Post.

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T is typically an American novel, which, in its subtle, tragic performance, lays a tremendous hold upon the reader's sympathies. The striking originality of the plot, the intensely dramatic climaxes, and the low, sweet thrills of happiness, which are in such direct contrast, give the book a weirdness and a fascination that are hard to shake off."-Boston Herald.

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RS. BURNETT'S delineation of character is masterly, showing a large comprehen-
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