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*>J 1 'r Trom the RBrary of 0.(E. and Mary Maple Jones JA. giftfrom Esther (Doughtie Trench, Jane (Donghtie I'ayCor oi (Richard "T. cDoughtie III University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign lu 3 w. Vol. VL No. I. THE CHAP-BOOK CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER 75, 18^16 THE TRAMPS ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, ILLUSTRATOR WITH MANY PICTURES DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVEN- SON JOSEPH PENNELL MY LADY OF MIRACLES RALPH JOHNSON MADEMOISELLE PREFERE ET MADEMOI- SELLE JEANNE WILLIAM POTTS A MAN'S LAST WORD BLISS CARMAN CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BY-GONE DAYS VII. THE SCARLET LETTER ALICE MORSE EARLE NOTES ANNOUNCEMENTS PRICE 10 CENTS $2.00 A YEAR ^Copies of the Fifth Volume of the CHAP- BOOK will be exchangedy if in good condition y for the volume bound in stamped buckram y for 50 cents. 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McCutcheon l6mo, $i.2S First edition, 2,000 copies, September 25th Second edition, 2,000 copies, October loth Third edition, 3,000 copies, October 14th Fourth edition, 2,000 copies, October 17th Mr. Ade shows all the qualities of a successful novelist. Chicago Tribune. Artie is a character, and George Ade has limned him deftly as well as amusingly. Under his rollicking abandon and recklessness we are made to feel the real sense and sensitiveness, and the wordly wisdom of a youth whose only language is that of the street gamin. As a study of the peculiar type chosen, it is both typical and inimitable. Detroit Free Press. It is brimful of fun and life and the most picturesque slang. Nobody will be any the worse for reading about Artie, if he does talk slang. He's a good fellow at heart, and Mamie Carroll is the "making of him." He talks good sense and good morality, and these things haven't yet gone out of style, even in Chicago. Ne-w York Recorder, Well-meaning admirers have compared Artie to Chimmie Fadden, but Mr. Townsend's creation, excellent as it is, cannot be said to be entirely free from exageration. The hand of Chimmie Fadden's maker is to be dis- cerned at times. And just here Artie is particularly strong—he is always Artie, and Mr. Ade is always concealed and never obtrudes his personality. —Chicago Post. George Ade is a writer, the direct antithesis of Stephen Crane. In "Artie" he has given the world a story of the streets at once wholesome, free and stimulating. The world is filled with people like "Artie" Blanchard and his "girl," "Mamie'| Carroll, and the story of their lives, their hopes and dreams and loves, is immeasurably more wholesome than all the stories like "George's Mother" that could be written by an army of the writers who call themselves realists.— Editorial Albany Evening Journal.