The Green Carnation Part 20

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_JOOST AVELINGH._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

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"A novel of a very high type. At once strongly realistic and powerfully idealistic."--_London Literary World._

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_PEOPLE AT PISGAH._ By EDWIN W. SANBORN.

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_MR. FORTNER'S MARITAL CLAIMS, and Other Stories._ By RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON.

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_GRAMERCY PARK._ A Story of New York. By JOHN SEYMOUR WOOD, author of "An Old Beau," etc.

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_A TALE OF TWENTY-FIVE HOURS._ By BRANDER MATTHEWS and GEORGE H. JESSOP.

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_A LITTLE NORSK; or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen._ By HAMLIN GARLAND, author of "Main Traveled Roads," etc.

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_TOURMALIN'S TIME CHEQUES._ By F. ANSTEY, author of "Vice Versa," "The Giant's Robe," etc.

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_FROM SHADOW TO SUNLIGHT._ By the MARQUIS OF LORNE.

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_ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM._ By KATE SANBORN.

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_ON THE LAKE OF LUCERNE, and Other Stories._ By BEATRICE WHITBY.

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_THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE._ By GILBERT PARKER.

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_THE FAENCE VIOLIN._ By CHAMPFLEURY. Translated by W. H. BISHOP.

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_A TRUTHFUL WOMAN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA._ By KATE SANBORN, author of "Adopting an Abandoned Farm," etc.

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_A BORDER LEANDER._ By HOWARD SEELY, author of "A Nymph of the West," etc.

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