Small or frivolous in the story. The author deals with tremendous passions working at the height of their energy. His characters are stern, rugged, determined men and women, governed by powerful prejudices and iron conventions, types of a military people, in whom the sense of duty has been cultivated until it dominates all other motives, and in whom the principle of 'noblesse oblige' is, so far as the aristocratic class is concerned, the fundamental rule of conduct. What such people may be capable of is startlingly shown."--_New York Tribune._ A ROMAN SINGER. "One of Mr. Crawford's most charming stories--a love romance pure and simple."--_Boston Home Journal._ "'A Roman Singer' is one of his most finished, compact, and successful stories, and contains a splendid picture of Italian life."--_Toronto Mail._ * * * * * MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. MR. ISAACS. A Tale of Modern India. "The writer first shows the hero in relation with the people of the East and then skilfully brings into connection the Anglo-Saxon race. It is in this showing of the different effects which the two classes of minds have upon the central figure of the story that one of its chief merits lies. The characters are original, and one does not recognize any of the hackneyed personages who are so apt to be considered indispensable to novelists, and which, dressed in on