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  ADA CAMBRIDGE'S NOVELS.

  Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.

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  Path and Goal.

  This latest book shows the constant human interest which characterizesthe work of this sympathetic and charming writer. There is anentertaining plot, and the backgrounds of the varying scenes of actionare sketched most vividly.

  Materfamilias.

  "The story is fragrant with the breath of farms, the aroma of the saltsea, and the even sweeter essence that exhales from the homely virtues,practiced amid simple surroundings, where family ties are strong, andwhere love, loyal and true, reigns as queen."--_Philadelphia Item_.

  A Humble Enterprise.

  "A restful, sympathetic, domestic story, full of tender pathos,excellent character drawing, and genuine, lovable human nature--a storyto be read, not once, but again and again."--_London Daily Mail_.

  Fidelis.

  "The original flavor of Ada Cambridge is not lost but enriched by beingingrafted on a sturdy stock. Her pictures of Australia and of ruralEngland are as attractive as ever, her story better than ever."--_NewYork Evening Post_.

  My Guardian.

  "A story which will, from first to last, enlist the sympathies of thereader by its simplicity of style and fresh, genuine feeling.... Theauthor is _au fait_ at the delineation of character."--_BostonTranscript_.

  The Three Miss Kings.

  "An exceedingly strong novel. It is an Australian story, teeming with acertain calmness of emotional power that finds expression in a continualoutflow of living thought and feeling."--_Boston Times_.

  Not All in Vain.

  "A worthy companion to the best of the author's former efforts, and insome respects superior to any of them."--_Detroit Free Press_.

  A Marriage Ceremony.

  "Highly original in conception, its action graceful though rapid, andits characters sparkling with that life and sprightliness that have madetheir author rank as a peer of delineators."--_Baltimore American_.

  A Little Minx.

  "A thoroughly charming novel, which is just the finest bit of work itsauthor has yet accomplished."--_Baltimore American_.