The Latest Rage In Fiction

There are íaidra In everytJijngj. This u an age oi fa.-l-;, ail btoy are o il ro:i.'iin.l tn any paa-tieuila.T1 seb or 'ect, eïiss OT commuinilty. Ia li er. ature Vt i at oi:ve tima tiio thiog to . on, i hem of Mary Qu en oí Scoijs, Uren of Oatharioe !; Medici. tibien oí Bywwi, and so on ad inflni'.inmw In fiction Hefen's Bables gre way to Koliert Kllsmere - irorn tlie rlUk-uflous to the sublime - tlien BMps Tlnat Pass in ihe Nfehb, h:vn a I'g-lit breeze, atoid Shö bouaea In vogui&. All at once, the adorable TrMby sets the visiouary -n-oa'ld agog, and the rav-ers drvlde the twaora wtlKh tliat iiiclitious dlaatuseil a.ul the ■marvelouis clM-.ysaaithe'inum haiv oi Paderewski. Just now it is Quo Vadis tliat is occupyiiig popul-aJ at. tentio'a. Qi:o Vadis has the merlfc oí beioog thoroug'hly excitiug. It keeps one thrilled, and the norel 'reader needs tliat as much as the cld top er needs tlie aloohollc streng th of hts favoTibe beverage. Thea agalu R Ls a novel of tUua timce oi Nero, the oíd tyrant vho ifddled while Itoni.e bua'iied, and the a.verage reader kiiows so little i times, and the cus-boims the people that am .au;.hor is perieetly safe in al'most any iXX't o'i fancy t!!naü ni-aiy le pictuird In liis mmid. It is possib-le that the uiiprD-iiounceáble namue &1 the auth'OT Henryk Sieniiewiaz, may lend yotme O'i' tino ilavor oí popular favor, as dM tliat on' his camitulymaji PadeV&wtíkA. Tluomgh the wcvk Joes poeess co:;sï.lei"able merit. George Wahir has foiiir edilüoms oí this book, and he has been haivimg soune little di ü.utiy i.i supplying tli deimand. It seems to be popular ais a hottday S-i:t. Tu.c fiith prlntlog of Dr. Mitchel's moved, ' Hugh Wynne," Ia now mdier!wiay,"bringlng the baok u,p to the thir;ÍL"íh th-ousand. The new story, ' Ti.ie A:iv; ïuu.rei o: Franeols," by thie same au.tho:r, whi'ch i-t i-o begin in the Janaary Century, is a. ta e of pure advtnture, the hero a ■'found11 g.iadT aturer, juggler, fenclng-masfer and seryaatj durtog the French o ui ton." It will b& iiln ; ra ted by the Fnench-A.nierliean artist, Andre C