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*By DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS.*
*The Second Generation.*
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
"The Second Generation" is a double-decked romance in one volume,
telling the two love-stories of a young American and his sister, reared
in luxury and suddenly left without means by their father, who felt that
money was proving their ruination and disinherited them for their own
sakes. Their struggle for life, love and happiness makes a powerful
love-story of the middle West.
"The book equals the best of the great story tellers of all
time."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer_.
"'The Second Generation,' by David Graham Phillips, is not only the most
important novel of the new year, but it is one of the most important
ones of a number of years past."--_Philadelphia Inquirer_.
"A thoroughly American book is 'The Second Generation.' ... The
characters are drawn with force and discrimination."--_St. Louis Globe
Democrat_.
"Mr. Phillips' book is thoughtful, well conceived, admirably written and
intensely interesting. The story 'works out' well, and though it is
made to sustain the theory of the writer it does so in a very natural
and stimulating manner. In the writing of the 'problem novel' Mr.
Phillips has won a foremost place among our younger American
authors."--_Boston Herald_.
"'The Second Generation' promises to become one of the notable novels of
the year. It will be read and discussed while a less vigorous novel
will be forgotten within a week."--_Springfield Union_.
"David Graham Phillips has a way, a most clever and convincing way, of
cutting through the veneer of snobbishness and bringing real men and
women to the surface. He strikes at shams, yet has a wholesome belief
in the people behind them, and he forces them to justify his good
opinions."--_Kansas City Times_.
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*THE LEADING NOVEL OF TODAY.*
*The Fighting Chance.*
By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell. 12mo. Ornamental
Cloth, $1.50.
In "The Fighting Chance" Mr. Chambers has taken for his hero, a young
fellow who has inherited with his wealth a craving for liquor. The
heroine has inherited a certain rebelliousness and dangerous caprice.
The two, meeting on the brink of ruin, fight out their battles, two
weaknesses joined with love to make a strength. It is refreshing to
find a story about the rich in which all the women are not sawdust at
heart, nor all the men satyrs. The rich have their longings, their
ideals, their regrets, as well as the poor; they have their struggles
and inherited evils to combat. It is a big subject, painted with a big
brush and a big heart.
"After 'The House of Mirth' a New York society novel has to be very good
not to suffer fearfully by comparison. 'The Fighting Chance' is very
good and it does not suffer."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer_.
"There is no more adorable person in recent fiction than Sylvia
Landis."--_New York Evening Sun_.
"Drawn with a master hand."--_Toledo Blade_.
"An absorbing tale which claims the reader's interest to the
end."--_Detroit Free Press_.
"Mr. Chambers has written many brilliant stories, but this is his
masterpiece."--_Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph_.
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*A MASTERPIECE OF FICTION.*
*The Guarded Flame.*
By W. B. MAXWELL, Author of "Vivien." Cloth, $1.50.
"'The Guarded Flame, by W. B. Maxwell, is a book to challenge the
attention of the reading public as a remarkable study of moral law and
its infraction. Mr. Maxwell is the son of Miss M. E. Braddon (Mrs. John
Maxwell), whose novels were famous a generation ago, and his first book
'Vivien' made the English critics herald him as a new force in the world
of letters. 'The Guarded Flame' is an even more astonishing production,
a big book that takes rank with the most important fiction of the year.
It is not a book for those who read to be amused or to be entertained.
It touches the deepest issues of life and death."--_Albany Argus_.
"The most powerfully written book of the year."--_The Independent_.
"'The Guarded Flame' is receiving high praise from the critics
everywhere."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.
"This is a book which cannot fail to make its mark."--_Detroit News_.
"Great novels are few and the appearance of one at any period must give
the early reviewer a thrill of discovery. Such a one has come
unheralded; but from a source whence it might have been confidently
expected. The author is W. B. Maxwell, son of the voluminous novelist
known to the world as Miss Braddon. His novel is entitled 'The Guarded
Flame.'"--_Philadelphia Press_.
"The books of W. B. Maxwell are essentially for thinkers."--_St. Louis
Post-Dispatch_.
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*A ROMANCE OF THE CIVIL WAR.*
*The Victory.*
By MOLLY ELLIOTT SEAWELL, author of "The Chateau of Montplaisir," "The
Sprightly Romance of Marsac," etc. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
"With so delicate a touch and appreciation of the detail of domestic and
plantation life, with so wise comprehension of the exalted and sometimes
stilted notions of Southern honor and with humorous depiction of African
fidelity and bombast to interest and amuse him, it only gradually dawns
on a reader that 'The Victory' is the truest and most tragic
presentation yet before us of the rending of home ties, the awful
passions, the wounded affections personal and national, and the
overwhelming questions of honor which weighed down a people in the war
of son against father and brother against brother."--_Hartford Courant_.
"Among the many romances written recently about the Civil War, this one
by Miss Seawell takes a high place.... Altogether, 'The Victory,' a
title significant in several ways, makes a strong appeal to the lover of
a good tale."--_The Outlook_.
"Miss Seawell's narrative is not only infused with a tender and
sympathetic spirit of romance and surcharged with human interests, but
discloses, in addition, careful and minute study of local conditions and
characteristic mannerisms. It is an intimate study of life on a
Virginia plantation during an emergent and critical period of American
history."--_Philadelphia North American_.
"It is one of the romances that make, by spirit as well as letter, for
youth and high feeling. It embodies, perhaps, the best work this author
yet has done."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.
"Aside from the engaging story itself and the excellent manner in which
it is told there is much of historic interest in this vivid word-picture
of the customs and manners of a period which has formed the background
of much fiction."--_Brooklyn Citizen_.