Led Astray and The Sphinx Part 25

_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."

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 ill.u.s.trations. Easily one of the best works this gifted writer has ever produced.

18mo., Cloth.

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 ill.u.s.trations just as funny as the text.

18mo. Cloth.

STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_

"LAUGH OFT, AND DEFY THE DOCTOR."

Toothsome Tales Told in Slang

By BILLY BURGUNDY.

A book of fascinating stories about fascinating folks.

Pretty women before and behind the foot-lights, artists and their models, literary men of Bohemian tendencies, these are the people whom Billy Burgundy has selected for characterization. True, they speak their lines in slang, but it is the slang of the educated, and is always artistic while delightfully amusing.

p.r.o.nounced by press and public one of the funniest books ever published.

The ill.u.s.trations are by Outcault, Swinnerton, Marriner, Rigby, Pal, McAuley, Lemon, Cobb and Bryans.

Copiously Ill.u.s.trated.

STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_

EERIE TALES OF "CHINATOWN."

Bits of Broken China

By WILLIAM E.S. FALES

A collection of captivating novelettes dealing with life in New York's "Chinatown."

The struggles and ambitions of the Chinaman in America, his loves and jealousies, his hopes and fears, his sorrows, his joys, these are the materials on which Mr. Fales has built his book.

It is a _new field_, and all the more interesting on that account. The author has made a life study of his subject; and no one is better qualified than he to present a picture of this romantic corner of New York where lives the exiled Chinaman.

"Bits of Broken China" is undoubtedly one of the most delightful volumes for lighter reading published this season.

Bound in cloth.

Gold top.

Fully Ill.u.s.trated

STREET AND SMITH, _New York and London_

THE GAME OF THE HOUR.