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*From*
*L. C. Page & Company's
Announcement List
of New Fiction*
*The Call of the South*
BY ROBERT LEE DURHAM. Cloth decorative, with 6 illustrations by Henry
Roth . . . $1.50
A very strong novel dealing with the race problem in this country. The
principal theme is the _danger_ to society from the increasing
miscegenation of the black and white races, and the encouragement it
receives in the social amenities extended to negroes of distinction by
persons prominent in politics, philanthropy and educational endeavor;
and the author, a Southern lawyer, hopes to call the attention of the
whole country to the need of earnest work toward its discouragement. He
has written an absorbing drama of life which appeals with apparent logic
and of which the inevitable denouement comes as a final and convincing
climax.
The author may be criticized by those who prefer not to face the hour
"When Your Fear Cometh As Desolation And Your Destruction Cometh As A
Whirlwind;" but his honesty of purpose in the frank expression of a
danger so well understood in the South, which, however, many in the
North refuse to recognize, while others have overlooked it, will be
upheld by the sober second thought of the majority of his readers.
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*The House in the Water*
BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS, author of "The Haunters of the Silences," "Red
Fox," "The Heart of the Ancient Wood," etc. With cover design, sixteen
full-page drawings, and many minor decorations by Charles Livingston
Bull. Cloth decorative, with decorated wrapper . . . $1.50
Professor Roberts's new book of nature and animal life is one long story
in which he tells of the life of that wonderfully acute and tireless
little worker, the beaver. "The Boy" and Jabe the Woodsman again
appear, figuring in the story even more than they did in "Red Fox;" and
the adventures of the boy and the beaver make most absorbing reading for
young and old.
The following chapter headings for "The House in the Water" will give an
idea of the fascinating reading to come:
THE SOUND IN THE NIGHT (Beavers at Work).
THE BATTLE IN THE POND (Otter and Beaver).
IN THE UNDER-WATER WORLD (Home Life of the Beaver).
NIGHT WATCHERS ("The Boy" and Jabe and a Lynx See the Beavers at Work).
DAM REPAIRING AND DAM BUILDING (A "House-raising" Bee).
THE PERIL OF THE TRAPS (Jabe Shows "The Boy").
WINTER UNDER WATER (Safe from All but Man).
THE SAVING OF BOY'S POND ("The Boy" Captures Two Outlaws).
"As a writer about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place. He
is the most literary, as well as the most imaginative and vivid of all
the nature writers."--_Brooklyn Eagle_.
"His animal stories are marvels of sympathetic science and literary
exactness."--_New York World_.
"Poet Laureate of the Animal World, Professor Roberts displays the
keenest powers of observation closely interwoven with a fine imaginative
discretion."--_Boston Transcript_.
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*Captain Love*
THE HISTORY OF A MOST ROMANTIC EVENT IN THE LIFE OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
DURING THE REIGN OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FIRST. CONTAINING INCIDENTS
OF COURTSHIP AND DANGER AS RELATED IN THE CHRONICLES OF THE PERIOD AND
NOW SET DOWN IN PRINT
BY THEODORE ROBERTS, author of "The Red Feathers," "Brothers of Peril,"
etc. Cloth decorative, illustrated by Frank T. Merrill . . . $1.50
A stirring romance with its scene laid in the troublous times in England
when so many broken gentlemen foregathered with the "Knights of the
Road;" when a man might lose part of his purse to his opponent at
"White's" over the dice, and the next day be relieved of the rest of his
money on some lonely heath at the point of a pistol in the hand of the
self-same gambler.
But, if the setting be similar to other novels of the period, the story
is not. Mr. Roberts's work is always original, his style is always
graceful, his imagination fine, his situations refreshingly novel. In
his new book he has excelled himself. It is undoubtedly the best thing
he has done.
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*Bahama Bill*
BY T. JENKINS HAINS, author of "The Black Barque," "The Voyage of the
Arrow," etc. Cloth decorative, with frontispiece in colors by H. R.
Reuterdahl . . . $1.50
The scene of Captain Hains's new sea story is laid in the region of the
Florida Keys. His hero, the giant mate of the wrecking sloop,
_Sea-Horse_, while not one to stir the emotions of gentle feminine
readers, will arouse interest and admiration in men who appreciate
bravery and daring.
His adventures while plying his desperate trade are full of the danger
that holds one at a sharp tension, and the reader forgets to be on the
side of law and order in his eagerness to see the "wrecker" safely
through his exciting escapades.
Captain Hains's descriptions of life at sea are vivid, absorbingly frank
and remarkably true. "Bahama Bill" ranks high as a stirring, realistic,
unsoftened and undiluted tale of the sea, chock full of engrossing
interest.
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*Matthew Porter*
BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD, JR., author of "The Private Tutor," etc. With a
frontispiece in colors by Griswold Tyng . . . $1.50
When a young man has birth and character and strong ambition it is safe
to predict for him a brilliant career; and, when The Girl comes into his
life, a romance out of the ordinary. Such a man is Matthew Porter, and
the author has drawn him with fine power.
Mr. Bradford has given us a charming romance with an unusual motive.
Effective glimpses of the social life of Boston form a contrast to the
more serious purpose of the story; but, in "Matthew Porter," it is the
conflict of personalities, the development of character, the human
element which grips the attention and compels admiration.
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*Anne of Green Gables*