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*FAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKS
IN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONS*
Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size.
Printed on excellent paper--most of them with illustrations of marked
beauty--and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume,
postpaid.
LAVENDER AND OLD LACE. By Myrtle Reed.
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone romance
finds a modern parallel. One of the prettiest, sweetest, and quaintest
of old-fashioned love stories * * * A rare book, exquisite in spirit and
conception, full of delicate fancy, of tenderness, of delightful humor
and spontaneity. A dainty volume, especially suitable for a gift.
DOCTOR LUKE OF THE LABRADOR. By Norman Duncan. With a frontispiece and
inlay cover.
How the doctor came to the bleak Labrador coast and there in saving life
made expiation. In dignity, simplicity, humor, in sympathetic etching
of a sturdy fisher people, and above all in the echoes of the sea,
_Doctor Luke_ is worthy of great praise. Character, humor, poignant
pathos, and the sad grotesque conjunctions of old and new civilizations
are expressed through the medium of a style that has distinction and
strikes a note of rare personality.
THE DAY'S WORK. By Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated.
The _London Morning Post_ says: "It would be hard to find better reading
* * * the book is so varied, so full of color and life from end to end,
that few who read the first two or three stories will lay it down till
they have read the last--and the last is a veritable gem * * * contains
some of the best of his highly vivid work * * * Kipling is a born
story-teller and a man of humor into the bargain."
ELEANOR LEE. By Margaret E. Sangster. With a frontispiece.
A story of married life, and attractive picture of wedded bliss * * * an
entertaining story of a man's redemption through a woman's love * * * no
one who knows anything of marriage or parenthood can read this story
with eyes that are always dry * * * goes straight to the heart of every
one who knows the meaning of "love" and "home."
THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS. By John Reed Scott. Illustrated by
Clarence F. Underwood.
"Full of absorbing charm, sustained interest, and a wealth of thrilling
and romantic situations." "So naively fresh in its handling, so
plausible through its naturalness, that it comes like a mountain breeze
across the far-spreading desert of similar romances."--_Gazette-Times,
Pittsburg_. "A slap-dashing day romance."--_New York Sun_.
THE FAIR GOD; OR, THE LAST OF THE TZINS. By Lew Wallace. With
illustrations by Eric Pape.
"The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and it
is worked out with all of Wallace's skill * * * it gives a fine picture
of the heroism of the Spanish conquerors and of the culture and nobility
of the Aztecs."--_New York Commercial Advertiser_.
"_Ben Hur_ sold enormously, but _The Fair God_ was the best of the
General's stories--a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat of
Montezuma by Cortes."--_Athenaeum_.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy.
A story of love and the salt sea--of a helpless ship whirled into the
hands of cannibal Fuegians--of desperate fighting and tender romance,
enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who describes with his
wonted felicity and power of holding the reader's attention * * * filled
with the swing of adventure.
A MIDNIGHT GUEST. A Detective Story. By Fred M. White. With a
frontispiece.
The scene of the story centers in London and Italy. The book is
skilfully written and makes one of the most baffling, mystifying,
exciting detective stories ever written--cleverly keeping the suspense
and mystery intact until the surprising discoveries which precede the
end.
THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI. A Romance. By S. Levett Yeats. With cover and
wrapper in four colors.
Those who enjoyed Stanley Weyman's _A Gentleman of France_ will be
engrossed and captivated by this delightful romance of Italian history.
It is replete with exciting episodes, hair-breath escapes, magnificent
sword-play, and deals with the agitating times in Italian history when
Alexander II was Pope and the famous and infamous Borgias were tottering
to their fall.
SISTER CARRIE. By Theodore Drieser. With a frontispiece, and wrapper
in color.
In all fiction there is probably no more graphic and poignant study of
the way in which man loses his grip on life, lets his pride, his
courage, his self-respect slip from him, and, finally, even ceases to
struggle in the mire that has engulfed him. * * * There is more tonic
value in _Sister Carrie_ than in a whole shelfful of sermons.
BARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES. By Irving Bacheller. With illustrations by
Arthur Keller.
"Barrel, the clock tinker, is a wit, philosopher, and man of mystery.
Learned, strong, kindly, dignified, he towers like a giant above the
people among whom he lives. It is another tale of the North Country,
full of the odor of wood and field. Wit, humor, pathos and high
thinking are in this book."--_Boston Transcript_.
D'RI AND I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British.
Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U. S. A. By Irving Bacheller.
With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.
"Mr. Bacheller is admirable alike in his scenes of peace and war. D'ri,
a mighty hunter, has the same dry humor as Uncle Eb. He fights
magnificently on the 'Lawrence,' and was among the wounded when Perry
went to the 'Niagara.' As a romance of early American history it is
great for the enthusiasm it creates."--_New York Times_.
EBEN HOLDEN: A Tale of the North Country. By Irving Bacheller.
"As pure as water and as good as bread," says Mr. Howells. "Read 'Eben
Holden'" is the advice of Margaret Sangster. "It is a forest-scented,
fresh-aired, bracing and wholly American story of country and town life.
* * * If in the far future our successors wish to know what were the
real life and atmosphere in which the country folk that saved this
nation grew, loved, wrought and had their being, they must go back to
such true and zestful and poetic tales of 'fiction' as 'Eben Holden,'"
says Edmund Clarence Stedman.
SILAS STRONG: Emperor of the Woods. By Irving Bacheller. With a
frontispiece.
"A modern Leatherstocking. Brings the city dweller the aroma of the
pine and the music of the wind in its branches--an epic poem * * *
forest-scented, fresh-aired, and wholly American. A stronger character
than Eben Holden."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.
VERGILIUS: A Tale of the Coming of Christ. By Irving Bacheller.
A thrilling and beautiful story of two young Roman patricians whose
great and perilous love in the reign of Augustus leads them through the
momentous, exciting events that marked the year just preceding the birth
of Christ.
Splendid character studies of the Emperor Augustus, of Herod and his
degenerate son, Antipater, and of his daughter "the incomparable"
Salome. A great triumph in the art of historical portrait painting.
BARBARA WINSLOW, REBEL. By Elizabeth Ellis.
With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.
The following, taken from story, will best describe the heroine: A
TOAST: "To the bravest comrade in misfortune, the sweetest companion in
peace and at all times the most courageous of women."--_Barbara
Winslow_. "A romantic story, buoyant, eventful, and in matters of love
exactly what the heart could desire."--_New York Sun_.
SUSAN. By Ernest Oldmeadow. With a color frontispiece by Frank
Haviland. Medalion in color on front cover.
Lord Riddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom he sees
in one of her walks accompanied by her maid, Susan. Through a
misapprehension of personalities his lordship addresses a love missive
to the maid. Susan accepts in perfect good faith, and an epistolary
love-making goes on till they are disillusioned. It naturally makes a
droll and delightful little comedy; and is a story that is particularly
clever in the telling.
WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE. By Jean Webster. With illustrations by C.
D. Williams.
"The book is a treasure."--_Chicago Daily News_. "Bright, whimsical,
and thoroughly entertaining."--_Buffalo Express_. "One of the best
stories of life in a girl's college that has ever been written."--_N. Y.
Press_. "To any woman who has enjoyed the pleasures of a college life
this book cannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and to
those who have not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm of
Patty are sure to be no less delightful."--_Public Opinion_.
THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by
Clarence F. Underwood.
"You can't drop it till you have turned the last page."--_Cleveland
Leader_. "Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution,
almost takes one's breath away. The boldness of its denouement is
sublime."--_Boston Transcript_. "The literary hit of a generation. The
best of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterly
story."--_St. Louis Dispatch_. "The story is ingeniously told, and
cleverly constructed."--_The Dial_.
THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by John
Campbell.
"Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a passion for
gambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has a
high sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a very
human, lovable character, and love saves her."--_N. Y. Times_.
THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by
Martin Justice.
"As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in the
reading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it is
handled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionably
novel."--_Boston Transcript_. "A feast of humor and good cheer, yet
subtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, or
whimsicality. A merry thing in prose."--_St. Louis Democrat_.
ROSE O' THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations by
George Wright.
"'Rose o' the River,' a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully written
and deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book--daintily
illustrated."--_New York Tribune_. "A wholesome, bright, refreshing
story, an ideal book to give a young girl."--_Chicago Record-Herald_.
"An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. As
story-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true to
the life."--_London Mail_.
TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With illustrations by
Florence Scovel Shinn.
The little "Mennonite Maid" who wanders through these pages is something
quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beauty and love;
and she comes into her inheritance at the end. "Tillie is faulty,
sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last and always
lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, the
characters skilfully developed."--_The Book Buyer_.
LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With illustrations by
Howard Chandler Christy.
"The most marvellous work of its wonderful author."--_New York World_.
"We touch regions and attain altitudes which it is not given to the
ordinary novelist even to approach."--_London Times_. "In no other
story has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of Lady
Rose's Daughter."--_North American Review_.
THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.
"An exciting and absorbing story."--_New York Times_. "Intensely
thrilling in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There is a
love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is a run on
the bank which is almost worth a year's growth, and there is all manner
of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the book into high and
permanent favor."--_Chicago Evening Post_.
BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK. By George Barr McCutcheon. With Color
Frontispiece and other illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Beautiful
inlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.
"The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season's
novels."--_Boston Herald_. "'Beverly' is altogether charming--almost
living flesh and blood"--_Louisville Times_. "Better than
'Graustark'."--_Mail and Express_. "A sequel quite as impossible as
'Graustark' and quite as entertaining."--_Bookman_. "A charming love
story well told."--_Boston Transcript_.
HALF A ROGUE. By Harold MacGrath. With illustrations and inlay cover
picture by Harrison Fisher.
"Here are dexterity of plot, glancing play at witty talk, characters
really human and humanly real, spirit and gladness, freshness and quick
movement. 'Half a Rogue' is as brisk as a horseback ride on a glorious
morning. It is as varied as an April day. It is as charming as two
most charming girls can make it. Love and honor and success and all the
great things worth fighting for and living for the involved in 'Half a
Rogue.'"--_Phila. Press_.
THE GIRL FROM TIM'S PLACE. By Charles Clark Munn. With illustrations
by Frank T. Merrill.
"Figuring in the pages of this story there are several strong
characters. Typical New England folk and an especially sturdy one, old
Cy Walker, through whose instrumentality Chip comes to happiness and
fortune. There is a chain of comedy, tragedy, pathos and love, which
makes a dramatic story."--_Boston Herald_.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE. A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and
Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, and Scenes from
the Play.
The novel duplicated the success of the play; in fact the book is
greater than the play. A portentous clash of dominant personalities
that form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon but
briefly in the short space of four acts. All this is narrated in the
novel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it one
of the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given to
the world in years.
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