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In “The Reign of Queen Isyl” the authors have hit upon a new scheme in
fiction. The book is both a novel and a collection of short stories.
The main story deals with a carnival of flowers in a California city.
Just before the coronation the Queen of the Fiesta disappears, and her
Maid of Honor is crowned in her stead--Queen Isyl. There are plots and
counterplots--half-mockery, half-earnest--beneath which the reader is
tantalized by glimpses of the genuine mystery surrounding the real
queen’s disappearance.
Thus far the story differs from other novels only in the quaintly
romantic atmosphere of modern chivalry. Its distinctive feature lies
in the fact that in every chapter one of the characters relates an
anecdote. Each anecdote is a short story of the liveliest and most
amusing kind--complete in itself--yet each bears a vital relation to
the main romance and its characters. The short stories are as unusual
and striking as the novel of which they form a part.
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