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BUSINESS NOTICES. ] THE "WEEKLY PRESS." NEW SERIAL STORY. JN ;THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF THF "WEEKLY PRESS" CONTINUES THE PUBLICATION OF A NEW SERIAL STORY, BY lAN MACLAREN, THE MOST POPULAR NOVELIST OI THE DAY. "KATE CARNEGIE," BY lAN MACLAREN, Author of " Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush' and " The Days of Auld Lang Syne." , Readers of the other works of this mosl popular of modern authors will be delightec ! to be afforded another chance of following the fortunes of the residents of that famous I village, Drumtochty, which has attained as , wide a celebrity as the " Thrums M of J. M, - Barrie. E J lan Maclaren's previous stories haw had an extraordinary and almost unprece dented sale throughout tv« English- , speaking world. More than 70,000 copiei * of " Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush," anc 60,000 copies of "The Days of Auld Lang Syne " have been sold, and so great was hii popularity by the time the latter book wai published, that his publishers cheerfully allowed him a royalty of 2s per copy, s< that he lias already received £6000, and thi book is still selling. This is not to be wondered at, when th< nature of. the stories themselves is con sidered. They so impress the reader witl their absolute truthfulness, that one coulc be sure, if he did not know, that the autho: was a child of the village he depiotß, anc that as a loyal Scot he has the deepest lov< for his country and, her people. And yei they are so written that they appeal ai strongly to those born South of the Tweec as to the author's countrymen, of whici their immense' circulation in England ii ample proof. Speaking of his previous works the Londoi " Spectator" says :—"As an artist in Scotcl character, of the sort that „ found it country villages, Mr MaclarEn has n< superior among his contemporaries, am bitious and able as several of these are." The " Athenaeum," referring to las Maclaren's "The Days of Auld Lang Syne," says :—" Mr MaclAß-N has done s good piece of work. There is a depth anc force as well as tenderness in the writer's appreciation of country life in his native and." Another journal remarks:—" lan Mac laren's stories are as fine an interpretation as we have yet had of the real inner spirii and life of rural Scotland. . . . Hii pictures are marvels of idealistic charm— their charm is their inith. The authoi knows the people ?»3 only a Minister or £ Doctor can : he looks with a keen eye • tempered with kindliness and humour; hi uses the tongue of the people as one tx whom it is native— Lc plnya with it, and i becomes picturesque, delicate, pathetic pregnant in his hands." lan Maclaren's hand has not lost iti cunning since he wrote the books referret oby these critics. All the charm of hii previous work will be found in "KATI CARNEGIE," which, indeed, we venture fr assert, contains some character sketches un rivalled for beauty in Ins whole gallery The character of Kate Carnegie herself, th daughter of the old Indian General, and th descendant of an ancient Highland family with her wilful beauty, her pride of race and her womanly tenderness, is one of th finest portraits Mr Maclaeen has yet drawn The young minister, Carmichael, is anothe example of the author's power of characte drawing. The finest piece of work of thi style, however, to be found in "KATJ CARNEGIE" is the magnificent ol minister, Dr. Davidson, (in whom Lt Maclaren has given us a character simph strong and touching, which is worthy to liv with the great characters of fiction. Alon with these are a host of inimitable subord nate characters, with some of whom, sac > as Hillocks, Drumsheugh, Dr. Maclure, Mr McFadyen, the "sermon taster," John, th " minister's man," and others, lan Ma( ' -abkn's readers are already well acquainted 1 " 1 A LIBERAL INSTALMENT, APPEARS THIS WEES. "HATE CARNEGIE, 1 ' BY lAN MACLAREN, Author of " Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and "The Days of Attld Lang Syne," IS NOW IN THE «• WEEKLY PRESS."