Four Important Books On July 21st we published A GEORGIAN ACTRESS By PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE, author of "Ye Lyttle Salem Maide," and "Mademoiselle de Beury," and on August 1st, not quite two weeks later, we announced THE FIFTH THOUSAND This is a strong book and well worth reading. Illustrated. $1.50. On May 1st we published PHILIP WINWOOD By ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS, author of An Enemy to the King," "A Gentleman Player," etc., and on August 1st, just three months later, we announced THE FIFTIETH THOUSAND The large sale it has had is enough said of this book. Illustrated, $1.50. It is a long time since a better sea story than EDWARD BARRY By LOUIS BECKE, author of "By Reef and Palm," and "Ri-dan, the Devil," has appeared, and in this his latest book, Mr. Becke is at his best. Illustrated. Price, $1.50. Just Published HER BOSTON EXPERIENCES By MARGARET ALLSTON (nom de plume). Illustrated. Price, $1.25. This is a most interesting and vivacious novel, dealing with society life in the Hub, with perhaps a tinge of the flavor of Vagabondia. We are not yet at liberty to give the true name of the author, but she is well known in literature. L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers, Boston Please mention THE BOOK BUYER in writing to advertisers. Books to be Issued in September Oliver Cromwell BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT. With many illustrations from original drawings by YOHN, PEIXOTTO, SEYMOUR LUCAS, FRANK CRAIG, HENRY MCCARTER, and other distinguished English and American Artists; also with portraits, facsimiles and documents. Crown 8vo, $200. The Rough Riders By THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 12mo, $1.00. With portrait and illustrations. With portraits, maps and plans. 2 vols., 12m0, $3.00. Popular Edition. Paul Jones: FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN NAVY. A HISTORY. By AUGUSTUS C. BUELL A History of the American Slave Trade By JOHN R. 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Subscribers in ordering change of address must give the old as well as the new address. Bound copies of Volumes IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII, $2.00 each. Volumes XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX, $1.50. Covers for binding, 50 cts. each. Bound volume sent on receipt of $1.00 and all the numbers in good condition. Postage prepaid. Volumes I, II, and III out of print. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK. THE RAMBLER N the new long novel upon which she is IN at work, Mrs. Wharton, the author of "The Touchstone" and "The Greater Inclination," has found a new field far removed from that which she has been cultivating-court and country life in Northern Italy in the eighteenth century. Her novel, to which she has given the striking title, "The Valley of Decision," portrays manners and customs, characters and events, and the general spectacular pageantry of the place and period. What promises to be a valuable contribution to the political literature of the period just preceding the Civil War, as well as a most interesting relic of the great emancipator of the slaves, is a forthcoming volume from the press of McClure, Phillips & Company, entitled " Abraham Lincoln His Book." It is the only book that Lincoln ever had a hand in making, and it will be published in facsimile. Douglas. The issue was slavery-not emancipation, but rather limitation, Lincoln contending merely that slavery should not be extended beyond the States then occupied, and not, as his opponents often stated in the campaign, advocating "negro equality," emancipation and citizenship. It was because his position was constantly misstated by his opponents that Lincoln collected all the newspaper clippings, giving, as he states, "the substance of all I have ever said about' negro equality."" These clippings Lincoln pasted in a little book, adding notes in manuscript to explain the time and occasion of each speech, and also addressing a long letter to his friend and closest supporter, Captain James H. Brown, to whom the book was given. Lincoln prepared the book as a defense of his principles, because such a defence was needed. Captain Brown treasured up the Lincoln book, carried it and used it in the campaign of 1860, and on his death, eight years later, the work passed to his sons, William and Benjamin Brown, of Grove Park, Illinois, by whom it is still owned. It is a fortunate arrangement which permits of its reproduction. It is a "human document" of no little interest. Copyright, 1900, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. All rights reserved The story of how Lincoln came to prepare this unique little volume involves a recital of his views on slavery, and a statement of the political conditions then operating in the middle-west. Lincoln was, at the time, candidate for United States Senator, and his opponent was Stephen A. |