Part 25

CHILDHOOD AND CIRCUMSTANCE. An Interesting Heredity; Family Letters; Mr. and Mrs. Field's Stage Life; Death of Joseph M. Field; The Mother and Daughter.

EARLY YOUTH. Aspirations and Studies; Interest in Art and Literature; Ardent Devotion to Music.

FLORENTINE DAYS. At Villa Bellosguardi; Enthusiasm for Italy; George Eliot and the Trollopes; Walter Savage Landor; At Casa Guidi with the Brownings.

LECTURING AND WRITING. Intense Energy of Purpose; John Brown's Grave; Ristori, Fechter, and the Drama; Planchette's Diary; Death of Eliza Riddle Field.

EUROPE REVISITED. Among London Celebrities; In Spain with Castelar; Music and Drama; Professor Bell and the Telephone; The Shakespeare Memorial.

A SIGNIFICANT DECADE. Return to America; Failures and Renewed Effort; The Mormon Problem; Alaska and the Golden Gate; Fame and Friends.

"KATE FIELD'S WASHINGTON." A Unique Enterprise; Miss Gilder's Friendship; Charming Life in the Capitol; The Columbian Exposition; France decorated Kate Field.

CROSSING THE BAR. A Journey of Destiny; Life and Studies in Hawaii; Noble and Generous Work; The Angel of Death.

IN RETROSPECT. Universal Appreciation and Love; The Strange Ordering of Circumstance; A Sculptured Cross in Mount Auburn; Death only an Event in Life.

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The Spiritual Significance

or, Death as an Event in Life

By LILIAN WHITING. Author of "The World Beautiful," "Boston Days," etc. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, gilt top, $1.25. Comprising: THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION AND ACHIEVEMENT; BETWEEN THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN; PSYCHIC COMMUNICATION; THE GATES OF NEW LIFE.

It suggests and hints at the ultimate significance of scientific investigation with relation to the totality of thought in a very fresh and suggestive way.... The spirit of her book, like that of its predecessors, is admirable.--The Outlook.

A book from her pen means new flashes of insight, a revelation of spiritual truth almost Emersonian in kind.--Chicago Chronicle.

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The World Beautiful

in Books

By LILIAN WHITING. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00 net. Decorated cloth, $1.25 net.

The careful and repeated reading of "The World Beautiful in Books" would be a liberal education.--Philadelphia Telegraph.

It is like a Greek urn filled with priceless relics. Hundreds of brains, ancient and modern, are daintily picked of their best thoughts, and there is scarcely a page that is not enriched with some rifled treasure. It is, in fact, concentrated food for select minds.--Chicago Post.

To read it is like being taken informally into a great assemblage of poets, romancers, and thinkers, while all are at their best, and being introduced to them by a near friend of all.--The Era, Philadelphia.

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Boston Days

The City of Beautiful Ideals, Concord and Its Famous Authors, The Golden Age of Genius, Dawn of the Twentieth Century. By LILIAN WHITING. Author of "The World Beautiful," etc. With portraits and other illustrations. 12mo. Decorated cloth, $1.50 net.

All the famous names associated with Boston pass in review before the reader of this apotheosis of the intellectual life of Massachusetts.--The Boston Herald.

The book is full of fascination of the intrinsic sort, by virtue of the material of which it is made up, and Miss Whiting has fulfilled her task with special literary grace and discretion.--Albany Argus.

A volume to place on the same shelf with the "Yesterdays With Authors" of the late James T. Fields and the "Literary Friends and Acquaintances" of William D. Howells.--Cleveland Plain Dealer.