NOBODY HOME, MR. DEVIL
The October night was clear, with a bite in the air which foretold sharp
frosts and winter's snows. There was no wind, only a great silence, as
if all nature had tucked itself away for a long night's rest.
On the eastern horizon, there was a dull glow as if it were the
reflections of a great conflagration. The light of it brightened,
and slowly over the edge of things arose a golden streak, the curved
top of the moon. In stately dignity, it ascended towards the zenith,
its gold changing to silver and its beams bathing the world in a
flood of gentle light. Over field and forest and plain the soft veil
advanced, spreading its magic silvery sheen until all it touched
became a mysterious fairyland.
In this delicate mantle were enfolded the huts of the poor and the
palaces of the rich, the lonely dwelling and the massed houses of
great cities. The thriving municipality of South Ridgefield was lighted
by this mild illumination which painted with a gleaming brush the
residence of Mrs. Henderson, and even tinged the bald head of that
learned lawyer, Hezekiah Wilkins, who, seated upon the porch railing,
gazed heavenward and told the widow, "It's a beautiful moon, Mary. I
have always admired the moon. It's the friend of youth. Since the
beginning of time it has been the one welcome third party at sentimental
trysts. If the moon were a gossip what stories it could tell. What
vows have been uttered in its presence and signed and sealed--"
"And broken, Hezekiah?" suggested Hennie.
"What if the moon should turn tattletale, Mary?"
"Don't worry. It's blind or it would blush red with shame for the
fickleness of men," Mrs. Henderson told him and then went on, "Forget
the moon and tell me what you did for Virginia that worked this miracle?"
He chuckled. "It was so easy. I told Obadiah that he made me think of a
fat hog. As usual he displayed--ahem--confidence in my judgment."
She leaned towards him, her face filled with delight. "Hezekiah
Wilkins," she whispered excitedly, "I could hug you for those words."
"I've been waiting a good many years for you to do that, Mary."
She dropped her head. "It's the moon, Hezekiah," she warned him. "I
forgot how to embrace any one years ago."
In the mysterious light, it seemed to him that a smile played about her
mouth. His arm slipped about her waist. He tipped her chin gently and
looked down into the face which for so long had meant to him the one
woman. "Is it true, Mary? You'll marry me?"
A stray cloud passed in front of the moon, and when it passed, the beams
lighted the porch of Aunt Kate's house at Old Rock.
The door opened and Obadiah came out, while his sister drew a shawl
closer to her shoulders and waited in the doorway. "It's a beautiful
night," she said, "a perfect Fall night."
"It's chilly--it's really cold," he objected, shrugging his
shoulders. He walked to the end of the porch and looked towards the apple
tree where the hammock swung in lonesomeness. "Where is Virginia?"
he asked.
"She went walking with Joe."
"She'll freeze," he worried.
Humor glinted in Aunt Kate's eyes. "Girls take moonlight walks on the
coldest winter nights and I never heard of one freezing, Obadiah. Your
blood is thin. Come in and I'll build a fire of chips for you."
"No," protested Obadiah, "I'll build one for you."
The moonbeams bathed the meadow and the pond in their soft light. They
silvered the great bowlder left by some glacier upon the edge of this
inland water. On a depression in its side sat Joe, and Virginia was
at his side. Before them stretched the shadowed mirror of the pond.
Opposite loomed the tree clad hill in misty gloom. The moon clothed its
summit in a mantle of light, reflected the tree-broken sky line in
delicate tracery upon the water below, and pushed a shining pathway to
their feet.
The spell of the night held the girl. It seemed wrong to speak aloud.
"Listen, Joe," she whispered, "the world is asleep." From the hill
came the sound of a cow bell sweetened by distance. Except for this and
the crickets all was still. "It's not a bit lonely," she sighed.
"No, not nearly as lonely as South Ridgefield after you left," he
agreed.
"Did you miss me?" She was watching the pond.
He stole a glance at the curves of her face and the flash of her eyes. It
seemed to him that never since the beginning of time could there have
been such another. He had lured a spirit of the night to a seat beside
him. "I nearly died of loneliness," he answered.
"You poor boy." Her voice was rich in tenderness. "Loneliness is
dreadful, Joe. I don't want you to feel that way." Surely this was
a nymph who had stolen forth to give him sympathy.
"I was miserable every moment after you left," he told her pathetically.
She turned her face to him, wonderful in its mysterious moonlight beauty.
"Joe," she pleaded, "you must not be sad. Knowing me must not bring
unhappiness to you."
"You must never leave me again, Virginia. When I am away from you I
can't be happy." Now the blue eyes were drawing a marvelous power of
enchantment from the moonbeams, and the black eyes were reflecting the
wonder of it. Under the charm of it, he dropped his cane.
With a little cry of tenderness she tried to catch it. Losing her balance
she fell towards him. He caught her in his arms, and the only other
cloud in all the heavens that night drifted before the moon and the
world darkened. Yet, on this old rock, lips touched and love blazed and
hearts whispered words of gladness.
The cloud passed on and the beams fell upon Serena, who had come forth
upon the stoop of the Dale kitchen for a breath of fresh air. She raised
her eyes to the great orb hanging high above her. Its light displayed
a look of great happiness and contentment upon her black face as she
whispered into the night, "Praise be! Ma honey chil' is er comin'
home. De ole man done conquah de evil spi'it which to'ment 'im. Dat
fool Ike done heard de warnin' dat come lak er cry in de night, an'
join de chu'ch. _Nobody home, Mr. Devil._"
THE END
THE TRIUMPH OF VIRGINIA DALE
Another GLAD Book (Trade Mark)
By John Francis, Jr.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
This new novel, marking the advent of a hitherto unknown writer of
fiction, offers, along with a delightful romance of youth, a tinge of
scintillating humor that stamps itself indelibly on the mind of the
reader, and evokes many a sympathetic chuckle. It fairly bubbles over
with exuberant cheerfulness, and is sure to inject a good share of its
unlimited store of "What's good for the world" into every one who is
lucky enough to read it.
Furthermore, the peculiar magnetism of the characters is such that the
reader cannot believe they are merely book creatures, _and_, we wager
they are not. Virginia Dale, the heroine, is a Good Samaritan, Miss
Sunshine, and Glad Heart--all of these--and yet the most natural young
person imaginable, and as she progresses in her mission of "brightening
up the corner" she builds for her own future one of the most beautiful
characters fiction has ever claimed.
The story is essentially a "character" story, but this does not
detract from the plot what it just seems to get in the natural course of
things, for, as a venerable reader once aptly remarked: "When story
folk act natural, we ain't goin' to forgit 'em."
THE PRINCESS NAIDA
By Brewer Corcoran
Author of "The Road to Le Reve" etc.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by H. Weston Taylor, $1.90
Adventure and romance are the keynotes of this new novel by Brewer
Corcoran--adventure which will stir the blood of every lover of
fast-moving action and culminative plot, and romance which will charm
all who have a tender spot for a lovably beautiful girl and a regular
"he" man. It is a tale of today, set amid the mountains of Switzerland
and the ugly rocks of Bolshevism on which is wrecked the mythical
principality of Nirgendsberg--a story of a brave little princess who
puts unfaltering faith in American manhood and resourcefulness and
finds a newer and a better throne. Bill Hale is the sort of hero who
would win any girl's love--a clever, capable chap with two fists and
a keen sense of humor. Whether he is matching wits with suave Count
Otto, romping with tiny Janos, fighting for his life in the hunting lodge
at Wolkensberg or pleading for the love of his "princess who is all
girl," he is a man. The story of his fight for all that counts in life
is told with a rush and sweep of action which will hold the reader
breathless. The dialogue, like that in Mr. Corcoran's other books,
sparkles with humor, but there is a certain pleasurable grimness in
his method of handling the Bolshevik which will strike an answering
note in every true American heart today.
"A romance of vivid interest, a love story full of youth and adventures
that thrill. The dialogue is unusually clever, the characters
delightfully real, the plot one that holds the reader's interest to the
end." _New York Sun._
A FLOWER OF MONTEREY
A Romance of the Californias
By Katherine B. Hamill
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
The wealth, beauty and sunshine of the Californias in the days when
Spain controlled our western coast and England looked with covetous
eyes, form the setting for this beautiful and artistic romance by a
new author. Mrs. Hamill has recreated vividly the little Spanish town
where the mission bells rang silvery at dawn, where scarlet uniforms
flashed in the stately drill of an afternoon dress parade and beautiful
women wore lace mantillas. Pajarita, the "Flower of Monterey," is
an American waif, cast up by the sea, who grows up among the senors
and senoritas, happy as the sunshine, but with a healthy American
disrespect for the Spanish modes of life. Two men love her--Don Jose,
the _gobernador proprietaro_ of all the Californias, and a young American
sailor-adventurer, John Asterly.
John Asterly, the hero of A FLOWER OF MONTEREY, came to the Californias
from Boston. He is perhaps thirty years old, adventurous and impetuous.
At a dance on the beach at Monterey, shortly after his arrival in the
Californias, he meets Pajarita, "the Flower of Monterey," and falls
in love with the girl, although she is promised to her benefactor,
the Spanish Governor. On the very night before her wedding, Asterly
tries to dissuade Pajarita from her marriage with some one other than
an American, and then the romance, rivalry and adventure begin. The
historical setting of the story is correct and the romance unfolds
with dash and symmetry.
WILD WINGS
Margaret R. Piper
Author of "Sylvia's Experiment," "The House on the Hill,"
"Sylvia Arden Decides," etc.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
In this "story of youth for grown-ups," the vigorous, happy Holiday
youngsters who lived in the "House on the Hill" develop into keen,
lovable young people, thoroughly worth knowing. To Tony, as brilliant and
beautiful as a girl can well be and still be human, comes a successful
theatrical career on Broadway, and a great love, and Larry grows into the
industrious, reliant young doctor that one would expect him to be.
Few writers today display the ability which Miss Piper does to "grow
up" a large family of boys and girls, each with an individuality well
developed and attractive, and her Holiday family holds a distinctive
place in American fiction for young people today.
As the charming characters work their way out of problems which face
all young people of buoyant spirits and ambitions, WILD WINGS gives a
definite message as to the happiest relationship between old and young.
"There is a world of human nature and neighborhood contentment in
Margaret R. Piper's books of good cheer. Her tales are well proportioned
and subtly strong in their literary aspects and quality." _North
American, Philadelphia._
Selections from
The Page Company's
List of Fiction
WORKS OF ELEANOR H. PORTER
POLLYANNA: The GLAD Book (500,000) (Trade Mark)
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
Mr. Leigh Mitchell Hodges, The Optimist, in an editorial for the
_Philadelphia North American_, says: "And when, after Pollyanna has
gone away, you get her letter saying she is going to take 'eight
steps' tomorrow--well, I don't know just what you may do, but I
know of one person who buried his face in his hands and shook with the
gladdest sort of sadness and got down on his knees and thanked the Giver
of all gladness for Pollyanna."
POLLYANNA: The GLAD Book. MARY PICKFORD EDITION (Trade Mark)
Illustrated with thirty-two half-tone reproductions of scenes from the
motion picture production, and a jacket with a portrait of Mary Pickford
in color.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, $2.25
While preparing "Pollyanna" for the screen, Miss Pickford said
enthusiastically that it was the best picture she had ever made in
her life, and the success of the picture on the screen has amply
justified her statement. Mary Pickford's interpretation of the beloved
little heroine as shown in the illustrations, adds immeasurably to
the intrinsic charm of this popular story.
POLLYANNA GROWS UP: The Second GLAD Book, Trade Mark (250,000)
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
When the story of POLLYANNA told in The _Glad_ Book was ended, a great
cry of regret for the vanishing "Glad Girl" went up all over the
country--and other countries, too. Now POLLYANNA appears again, just as
sweet and joyous-hearted, more grown up and more lovable.
"Take away frowns! Put down the worries! Stop fidgeting and
disagreeing and grumbling! Cheer up, everybody! POLLYANNA has come
back!"--_Christian Herald._
MISS BILLY (93rd thousand)
Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color from a painting by G.
Tyng, $1.90
"There is something altogether fascinating about 'Miss Billy,' some
inexplicable feminine characteristic that seems to demand the individual
attention of the reader from the moment we open the book until we
reluctantly turn the last page."--_Boston Transcript._
MISS BILLY'S DECISION (78th thousand)
Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color from a painting by
Henry W. Moore, $1.90
"The story is written in bright, clever style and has plenty of action
and humor. Miss Billy is nice to know and so are her friends."--_New
Haven Leader._
MISS BILLY--MARRIED (86th thousand)
Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color from a painting by W.
Haskell Coffin, $1.90
"Although Pollyanna is the only copyrighted glad girl, Miss Billy is
just as glad as the younger figure and radiates just as much gladness.
She disseminates joy so naturally that we wonder why all girls are not
like her."--_Boston Transcript._
SIX STAR RANCH (45th thousand)
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by R. Farrington Elwell, $1.90
"'Six Star Ranch' bears all the charm of the author's genius and
is about a little girl down in Texas who practices the 'Pollyanna
Philosophy' with irresistible success. The book is one of the kindliest
things, if not the best, that the author of the Pollyanna books has
done. It is a welcome addition to the fast-growing family of _Glad_
Books."--_Howard Russell Bangs in the Boston Post._
CROSS CURRENTS
Cloth decorative, illustrated, $1.50
"To one who enjoys a story of life as it is to-day, with its sorrows
as well as its triumphs, this volume is sure to appeal."--_Book News
Monthly._
THE TURN OF THE TIDE
Cloth decorative, illustrated, $1.50
"A very beautiful book showing the influence that went to the
development of the life of a dear little girl into a true and good
woman."--_Herald and Presbyter, Cincinnati, Ohio._
NOVELS BY ELIOT HARLOW ROBINSON
A book which has established its author in the front rank of American
novelists.
SMILES, A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS (26th thousand)
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
Smiles is a girl who has already made many friends and is destined
to make many more. Her real name is Rose, but the rough folk of the
Cumberlands preferred their own way of addressing her, for her smile
was so bright and winning that no other name suited her so well.
"This is the best book I have ever illustrated for any publisher. I have
tried to make the pictures all that you hoped for them."--_H. Weston
Taylor._
E. J. Anderson, former managing Editor of the Boston _Advertiser_ and
_Record_, is enthusiastic over the story and says:
"I have read 'Smiles' in one reading. After starting it I could
not put it down. Never in my life have I read a book like this that
thrilled me half as much, and never have I seen a more masterful piece
of writing."
THE MAID OF MIRABELLE: A Romance of Lorraine
Illustrated with reproductions of sketches made by the author, and with a
portrait of "The Maid of Mirabelle," from a painting by Neale Ordayne,
on the cover.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90
A story of human and heart interest. The "Maid," Joan, is a personality
just as real and lovable as was Smiles.
"The spirit of all the book is the bubbling, the irrepressibly
indomitable, cheerful faith of the people, at their very best, against
the grave Quakerism from the United States standing out grimly but
faithfully. The tale is simply, but strongly told."--_Montreal Family
Herald and Weekly Star._
MAN PROPOSES; Or, The Romance of John Alden Shaw
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.90
"This is first of all a charming romance, distinguished by a fine
sentiment of loyalty to an ideal, by physical courage, indomitable
resolution to carry to success an altruistic undertaking, a splendid
woman's devotion, and by a vein of spontaneous, sparkling humor that
offsets its more serious phases."--_Springfield Republican._
THE ROMANCES OF L. M. MONTGOMERY
Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (355th thousand)
Illustrated by M. A. and W. A. J. Claus.
"In 'Anne of Green Gables' you will find the dearest and most moving
and delightful child since the immortal Alice."--_Mark Twain in a letter
to Francis Wilson._
"I take it as a great test of the worth of the book that while the young
people are rummaging all over the house looking for Anne, the head of the
family has carried her off to read on his way to town."--_Bliss Carman._
ANNE OF AVONLEA (255th thousand)
Illustrated by George Gibbs.
"Here we have a book as human as 'David Harum,' a heroine who
outcharms a dozen princesses of fiction, and reminds you of some sweet
girl you know, or knew back in the days when the world was young."--_San
Francisco Bulletin._
CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA (43d thousand)
Illustrated by George Gibbs.
"The author shows a wonderful knowledge of humanity, great insight and
warmheartedness in the manner in which some of the scenes are treated,
and the sympathetic way the gentle peculiarities of the characters are
brought out."--_Baltimore Sun._
ANNE OF THE ISLAND (65th thousand)
Illustrated by H. Weston Taylor.
"It has been well worth while to watch the growing up of Anne, and the
privilege of being on intimate terms with her throughout the process has
been properly valued. The once little girl of Green Gables should have a
permanent fictional place of high yet tender esteem."--_New York Herald._
FURTHER CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA (20th thousand).
Illustrated by John Goss.
Nathan Haskell Dole compares Avonlea to Longfellow's Grand Pre--and
says, "There is something in these continued chronicles of Avonlea like
the delicate art which has made Cranford a classic."
"The reader has dipped into but one or two stories when he realizes that
the author is the most natural story teller of the day."--_Salt Lake
City Citizen._
WORKS OF L. M. MONTGOMERY (Continued)
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: The Mary Miles Minter Edition
Illustrated with twenty-four half-tone reproductions of scenes from the
motion picture production, and a jacket in colors with Miss Minter's
portrait.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, $2.25
"You pass from tears to laughter as the story unfolds, and there is
never a moment's hesitation in admitting that Anne has completely won
your heart."--_Joe Mitchell Chapple, Editor, The National Magazine._
"Mary Miles Minter's 'Anne' on the screen is worthy of Mark Twain's
definition of her as the 'dearest and most moving and delightful child
since the immortal "Alice."'"--_Cambridge Tribune._
KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD (52d thousand)
Illustrated by George Gibbs. Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90
"A purely idyllic love story full of tender sentiment, redolent with
the perfume of rose leaves and breathing of apple blossoms and the sweet
clover of twilight meadow-lands."--_San Francisco Bulletin._
"A story born in the heart of Arcadia and brimful of the sweet and
simple life of the primitive environment."--_Boston Herald._
=THE STORY GIRL (46th thousand)=
Illustrated by George Gibbs. Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90
"It will be read and, we venture to predict, reread many times, for
there is a freshness and sweetness about it which will help to lift the
load of care, to cheer the weary and to make brighter still the life
of the carefree and the happy."--_Toronto, Can., Globe._
"'The Story Girl' is of decidedly unusual conception and interest,
and will rival the author's earlier books in popularity."--_Chicago
Western Trade Journal._
THE GOLDEN ROAD (28th thousand)
Illustrated by George Gibbs. Cloth decorative, 12mo, $1.90
In which it is proven that "Life was a rose-lipped comrade with purple
flowers dripping from her fingers."
"It is a simple, tender tale, touched to higher notes, now and then, by
delicate hints of romance, tragedy and pathos. Any true-hearted human
being might read this book with enjoyment, no matter what his or her age,
social status, or economic place."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
NOVELS BY ISLA MAY MULLINS
Each, one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75
THE BLOSSOM SHOP: A Story of the South
"Frankly and wholly romance is this book, and lovable--as is a fairy
tale properly told."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
ANNE OF THE BLOSSOM SHOP: Or, the Growing Up of Anne Carter
"A charming portrayal of the attractive life of the South, refreshing as
a breeze that blows through a pine forest."--_Albany Times-Union._
ANNE'S WEDDING
"Presents a picture of home life that is most appealing in love and
affection."--_Every Evening, Wilmington, Del._
THE MT. BLOSSOM GIRLS
"In the writing of the book the author is at her best as a story teller.
It is a fitting climax to the series."--_Reader._
TWEEDIE: The Story of a True Heart
"The story itself is full of charm and one enters right into the very
life of Tweedie and feels as if he had indeed been lifted into an
atmosphere of unselfishness, enthusiasm and buoyant optimism."--_Boston
Ideas._
NOVELS BY DAISY RHODES CAMPBELL
THE FIDDLING GIRL
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.65
"A thoroughly enjoyable tale, written in a delightful vein of
sympathetic comprehension."--_Boston Herald._
THE PROVING OF VIRGINIA
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.65
"A book which contributes so much of freshness, enthusiasm, and healthy
life to offset the usual offerings of modern fiction, deserves all the
praise which can be showered upon it."--_Kindergarten Review._
THE VIOLIN LADY
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.65
"The author's style remains simple and direct, as in her preceding
books."--_Boston Transcript._
DETECTIVE STORIES BY GEORGE BARTON
Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75
THE PEMBROKE MASON AFFAIR
"Not until the end will the reader ever surmise how Mason was murdered.
An absorbing and thrilling story."--_Cleveland Topics._
THE MYSTERY OF THE RED FLAME
"An admirable story--an engaging story of love, mystery and
adventure."--_The Philadelphia Inquirer._
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF BROMLEY BARNES
"It would be difficult to find a collection of more interesting tales of
mystery so well told. The author is crisp, incisive and inspiring. The
book is the best of its kind in recent years and adds to the author's
already high reputation."--_New York Tribune._
THE AMBASSADOR'S TRUNK
"Mr. Barton is in the front rank of the writers of mystery stories, and
this is one of his best."--_Pittsburgh Chronicle._
"The book is of the good red-blood type, with few dull lines and
stirring action and episodes in almost every page."--_Montreal Herald._
BUSINESS NOVELS BY HAROLD WHITEHEAD
Professor of Sales Relations, The College of Business Administration,
Boston University
Each one volume, cloth, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75
DAWSON BLACK, RETAIL MERCHANT
"Contains much that it would profit a young merchant to know and its
fictional interest makes a strong appeal."--_New York Tribune._
THE BUSINESS CAREER OF PETER FLINT
"Peter Flint is certainly a marvel.... His career reveals a most
remarkable metamorphosis from incapacity, stubbornness, and what seemed
a chronic inclination to fall down on every job which he undertook,
to an amazing exposition of business capacity and skill."--_Boston
Transcript._
NOVELS BY MARGARET R. PIPER
SYLVIA'S EXPERIMENT: The Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)
Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color $1.75
"An atmosphere of good spirits pervades the book; the humor that now
and then flashes across the page is entirely natural."--_Boston Post._
SYLVIA OF THE HILL TOP: The Second Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)
Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color $1.75
"There is a world of human nature and neighborhood contentment and
quaint quiet humor in Margaret R. Piper's second book of good
cheer."--_Philadelphia North American._
"Sylvia proves practically that she is a messenger of joy to
humanity."--_The Post Express, Rochester, N. Y._
SYLVIA ARDEN DECIDES: The Third Cheerful Book (Trade Mark)
Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color $1.75
"Its ease of style, its rapidity, its interest from page to page, are
admirable; and it shows that inimitable power--the storyteller's gift
of verisimilitude. Its sureness and clearness are excellent, and its
portraiture clear and pleasing."--_The Reader._
FICTION FOR YOUNGER READERS BY MARGARET R. PIPER
THE HOUSE ON THE HILL
By Margaret R. Piper.
Cloth decorative, illustrated $1.75
"'The House on the Hill' presents higher ideals of service and
life for boys and girls, and the charming characters worked their way
out of problems which face all young people of buoyant spirits and
ambition."--_Buffalo News._
"The story is a delightful one, with all kinds of interesting adventures
and characters."--_Sunday Leader._
THE PRINCESS AND THE CLAN
By Margaret R. Piper.
Cloth decorative, illustrated by John Goss $1.75
"This is a delightful story for young and old, wholesome and uplifting.
The chief charm of the story lies in its simplicity,"--_Philadelphia
North American._
NOVELS BY MARY ELLEN CHASE
THE GIRL FROM THE BIG HORN COUNTRY
Cloth, 12mo, illustrated by E. Farrington Elwell, $1.75
"'The Girl from the Big Horn Country' tells how Virginia Hunter, a
bright, breezy, frank-hearted 'girl of the Golden West' comes out of
the Big Horn country of Wyoming to the old Bay State. Then things begin,
when Virginia--who feels the joyous, exhilarating call of the Big Horn
wilderness and the outdoor life--attempts to become acclimated and adopt
good old New England 'ways.'"--_Critic._
VIRGINIA, OF ELK CREEK VALLEY
Cloth, 12mo, illustrated by E. Farrington Elwell, $1.75
"This story is fascinating, alive with constantly new and fresh
interests and every reader will enjoy the novel for its freshness, its
novelty and its inspiring glimpses of life with nature."--_The Editor._
NOVELS BY OTHER AUTHORS
THE GOLDEN DOG. A Romance of Quebec
By William Kirby. (45th thousand.)
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by J. W. Kennedy, $1.90
"A powerful romance of love, intrigue and adventure in the times of
Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour."--_Boston Herald._
SHE STANDS ALONE
Being the story of Pilate's wife.
By Mark Ashton.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75
Few novels of the present day can stand comparison with this remarkable
book, which must be ranked in modern literature dealing with the early
Christian era as only second to "Ben Hur."
THE ROAD TO LE REVE
By Brewer Corcoran.
Cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated by H. Weston Taylor, $1.90
"A romance of vivid interest, a love story full of youth, the great
outdoors and adventures that thrill. The dialogue is unusually clever,
the characters delightfully real, the plot one that holds the reader's
interest to the end."--_New York Sun._
THE FAMOUS SEA STORIES OF HERMAN MELVILLE
MOBY DICK; Or, The White Whale
TYPEE. A Real Romance of the South Sea
OMOO. A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; a sequel to TYPEE
WHITE JACKET; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated $1.90
The recent centenary of Herman Melville created renewed interest in his
famous sea stories.
"Melville wove human element and natural setting into recitals which
aroused the enthusiasm of critics and sent a thrill of delight through
the reading public when first published, and which both for form and
matter have ever since held rank as classics in the literature of
travel."--_Boston Herald._
DETECTIVE STORIES BY ARTHUR MORRISON
Each one volume, cloth decorative, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75
THE GREEN DIAMOND
"A clever, ingenious story, with just the right combination of detective
skill and mystery and with a touch of Oriental mysticism."--_Kansas
City Star._
THE RED TRIANGLE
"The reader who has a grain of imagination may be defied to lay
this book down, once he has begun it, until the last word has been
reached."--_Boston Journal._
"It is a splendid story of the kind that cannot fail to
interest."--_Detroit Journal._
THE CHRONICLES OF MARTIN HEWITT
"The story is told in a forceful, straightforward style, which gives it
impressive realism."--_Boston Herald._
"The story is well-written, unique, quite out of the usual order,
and a vein of mystery running through it that is most
captivating."--_Christian Intelligencer._
HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF NATHAN GALLIZIER
THE LEOPARD PRINCE
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"With a vividness that is electrifying and a mastery of emotion that
thrills, Mr. Gallizier has written this story of Italy--a romance of
Venice in the fourteenth century."--_The Lookout, Cincinnati, Ohio._
UNDER THE WITCHES' MOON
Cloth decorative, large 12mo, illustrated in color, $2.00
"A highly colored romance of mediaeval Italy with a most interesting
background."--_New York World._
THE CRIMSON GONDOLA
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"Mr. Gallizier is unusually strong in the use of description, and
conveys vividly the gorgeous decadence and luxury of the sybaritic
city."--_Los Angeles Sunday Times._
THE HILL OF VENUS
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This is a vivid and powerful romance of the thirteenth century in the
times of the great Ghibelline wars.
"It is vibrant with action and overflowing with human emotions
throughout."--_Wilmington Every Evening._
THE COURT OF LUCIFER
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"The book is breathless reading, as much for the adventures, the
pageants, the midnight excursions of the minor characters, as for
the love story of the prince and Donna Lucrezia."--_Boston Transcript._
THE SORCERESS OF ROME
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"A splendid bit of old Roman mosaic, or a gorgeous piece of tapestry.
Otto is a striking and pathetic figure. Description of the city, the
gorgeous ceremonials of the court and the revels are a series of
wonderful pictures."--_Cincinnati Enquirer._
CASTEL DEL MONTE
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"There is color; there is sumptuous word-painting in these pages;
the action is terrific at times; vividness and life are in every part;
and brilliant descriptions entertain the reader and give a singular
fascination to the tale."--_Grand Rapids Herald._
WORKS OF GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
Signor d'Annunzio is known throughout the world as a poet and a
dramatist, but above all as a novelist, for it is in his novels that
he is at his best. In poetic thought and graceful expression he has few
equals among the writers of the day.
He is engaged on a most ambitious work--nothing less than the writing of
nine novels which cover the whole field of human sentiment. This work he
has divided into three trilogies, and five of the nine books have been
published. It is to be regretted that other labors have interrupted the
completion of the series.
"This book is realistic. Some say that it is brutally so. But the
realism is that of Flaubert, and not of Zola. There is no plain
speaking for the sake of plain speaking. Every detail is justified in
the fact that it illuminates either the motives or the actions of the
man and woman who here stand revealed. It is deadly true. The author
holds the mirror up to nature, and the reader, as he sees his own
experiences duplicated in passage after passage, has something of the
same sensation as all of us know on the first reading of George
Meredith's 'Egoist.' Reading these pages is like being out in the
country on a dark night in a storm. Suddenly a flash of lightning
comes and every detail of your surroundings is revealed."--_Review of
"The Triumph of Death" in the New York Evening Sun._
The volumes published are as follows. Each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth,
$1.75
THE ROMANCES OF THE ROSE
THE CHILD OF PLEASURE (Il Piacere)
THE INTRUDER (L'Innocente)
THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH (Il Trionfo della Morte)
THE ROMANCES OF THE LILY
THE MAIDENS OF THE ROCKS (Le Vergini delle Rocce)
THE ROMANCES OF THE POMEGRANATE
THE FLAME OF LIFE (Il Fuoco)
End of Project Gutenberg's The Triumph of Virginia Dale, by John Francis, Jr.