_THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY._ Being the Memoirs of Captain ROBERT MORAY,
sometime an Officer in the Virginia Regiment, and afterward of
Amherst’s Regiment. 12mo. Cloth, illustrated, $1.50.
For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing
period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The
curtain rises soon after General Braddock’s defeat in Virginia, and
the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues
of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of
adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after
Wolfe’s victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and
history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of
fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local
color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in
this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve
the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings,
gates, and battle-grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero’s
imprisonment in Quebec.
_THE TRAIL OF THE SWORD._ A Novel. l2mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth,
$1.00.
“Mr. Parker here adds to a reputation already wide, and anew
demonstrates his power of pictorial portrayal and of strong dramatic
situation and climax.”—_Philadelphia Bulletin._
“The tale holds the reader’s interest from first to last, for it is
full of fire and spirit, abounding in incident, and marked by good
character-drawing.”—_Pittsburg Times._
_THE TRESPASSER._ 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
“Interest, pith, force, and charm—Mr. Parker’s new story possesses
all these qualities.... Almost bare of synthetical decoration, his
paragraphs are stirring because they are real. We read at times—as
we have read the great masters of romance—breathlessly.”—_The
Critic._
“Gilbert Parker writes a strong novel, but thus far this is his
masterpiece.... It is one of the great novels of the year.”—_Boston
Advertiser._
_THE TRANSLATION OF A SAVAGE._ 16mo. Flexible cloth, 75 cents.
“A book which no one will be satisfied to put down until the end has
been matter of certainty and assurance.”—_The Nation._
“A story of remarkable interest, originality, and ingenuity of
construction.”—_Boston Home Journal._
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