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THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The Master of Ballantrae.

A Winter's Tale. With 10 full-page illustrations by William Hole. i2mo, $1.50.

" We have here a fresh and striking example of Mr. Stevenson's remarkable intellectual versatility and flexibility. It is a fine novel, realistic and romantic by turns, marked by rare skill of draughtmanship and vigor of imagination, an honor to the author and a credit to literature."— New York Tribune.

The Wrecker.

By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. With 12 full-page illustrations by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. i2mo, $1.50.

"It seems much the most enticing romance at present before the world."

—Andrew Lang.

Prince Otto.

A Romance. i2mo, $1.00.

" A graceful and unusual romance, full of surprises, full of that individuality which is so charming in every page this author has published, and so unhack- neyed that one knows not what to expect from any one paragraph to the next."

—Boston Courier,

The Merry Men,

And Other Tales and Fables, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

l2mo, $1.25.

" Everything in the collection is worthy of its remarkable author."

— The Independent.

The Black Arrow.

A Tale of the Two Roses. Illustrated by Will H. Low and Alfred Brennan. i2mo, $1.25.

" It has all the good qualities of his other'stories— their invention, their spirit and their charming English. The hand that wrote ' Kidnapped ' is vis- ible in its stirring pages."— R. H. Stoddard.

New Arabian Nights.

i2mo, $1.25.

" There is something in his work which engages and fixes the attention from the first page to the last, which shapes itself before the mind's eye while reading, and which refuses to be forgotten long after the book has been put away."

— R. H. Stoddard.

The Dynamiter.

More New Arabian Nights. By Robert Louis Stevenson and Mrs. Stevenson. i2mo, $1.25.

" There is no writer in the English language to-day who can alternately touch the springs of tears and laughter as does this man, who weaves as delicious fancies as ever passed through the brain." — Philadelphia Times.

Island Nights' Entertainments.

Illustrated. i2mo, $1.25.

" The book will be reckoned among the finest of Mr. Stevenson's works. Th«  art of it is so nearly perfect that it seems spontaneous, and the matter is absolutely unique." — Boston Beacon.

The Wrong Box.

By Rolert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. i2mo, $1.25.

" It brings out more strongly than any of Mr. Stevenson's preceding works his facile wit and irresistible humor." — Chicago Tribune.