D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
By A. CONAN DOYLE.
THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS. Being a Series of Twelve Letters written by J. Stark Munro, M. B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881–1884. Illustrated. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50.
This original and dramatic story presents fresh types, extraordinary situations, and novel suggestions with a freshness and vigor which show that the romancer's heart was in his work. How far certain incidents of the story are based upon personal experiences it is impossible to say, but the unflagging interest and unexpected phases of the romance are no less in evidence than the close personal relations established between author and reader. In the "Stark Munro Letters" the author has achieved another success which will add to the number of his American friends and readers.
"Any one who has read any of the fascinating stories in which the shrewd detective, Sherlock Holmes, figures as the very personification of detective logic applied to the detection of crime, knows that Conan Doyle is a story-teller of the very first order of merit. Like his own character, Sherlock Holmes, he possesses the power of getting out of everything all there is in it."—Philadelphia Item.
"Dr. Doyle's stories are so well known for their strong dramatic style, for the elegance of expression, that anything new from his pen is sure to be warmly welcomed. His readers are sure of getting a literary treat from anything he writes. He is broadminded and liberal, and the man who could write two such books as 'The White Company' and 'The Refugees' has a future which the shades of Scott and Dickens might envy." —Albany Times-Union.
Seventh Edition.
ROUND THE RED LAMP. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The "Red Lamp," the trade-mark, as it were, of the English country practitioner's office, is the central point of these dramatic stories of professional life. There are no secrets for the surgeon, and, a surge an himself as well as a novelist, the author has made a most artistic use of the motives and springs of action revealed to him in a field of which he is the master.
"Too much can not be said in praise of these strong productions, that, to read, keep one's heart leaping to the throat and the mind in a tumult of anticipation to the end.... No series of short stories in modern literature can approach them."—Hartford Times.
"If Mr. A. Conan Doyle had not already placed himself in the front rank of living English writers by 'The Refugees,' and other of his larger stories, he would surely do so by these fifteen short tales."—New York Mail and Express.
"The reading of these choice stories will prove an exciting pleasure to all who may linger on the pages that present them."—Boston Courier.
"A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Every page reveals the literary artist, the keen observer, the trained delineator of human nature, its weal and its woe....Dr. Doyle has a rich note-book or, we should say, a golden memory."—London Freeman's Journal.
New York : D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue.
