press. In that month the book has been reviewed from one end of the
country to the other, but I have not written anything about it for the
good reason that I have been all of this time reading it, a little at a
time, with much thought spent between the sentences, with all sorts of
comments and memories and injunctions crying to be written in the
margins and with the towering immensity of the thing awing me into
either an incoherence of superlatives or silence. I have waited for the
clarity of impression that comes with the closing of the covers of a
book that has marked an epoch in my literary life.... _The Research
Magnificent_ is a book whose intensity of influence will be immeasurable
in the lives of those who read it. It is enthralling in its sheer
literary magnificence.”
_Fannie Butcher in the Chicago Tribune._
The Star Rover
BY JACK LONDON
Author of “The Call of the Wild,” “The Sea Wolf,” “The Mutiny of the
Elsinore,” etc. With frontispiece in colors by Jay Hambidge.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.50_
Daring in its theme and vivid in execution, this is one of the most
original and gripping stories Mr. London has ever written. The
fundamental idea upon which the plot rests—the supremacy of mind over
body—has served to inspire writers before, but rarely, if indeed ever,
has it been employed as strikingly or with as much success as in this
book. With a wealth of coloring and detail the author tells of what came
of an attempt on the part of the hero to free his spirit from his body,
of the wonderful adventures this “star rover” had, adventures covering
long lapses of years and introducing strange people in stranger lands.
“Jack London has done something original in the _Star Rover_, and done
it supremely well.”
—_New York Times._
Old Delabole
BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Author of “Brunel’s Tower,” etc.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.50_
Delabole is a Cornish slate mining town and the tale which Mr.
Phillpotts tells against it as a background, one in which a matter of
honor or conscience is the pivot, is dramatic in situation and doubly
interesting because of the moral problem which it presents. Mr.
Phillpotts’s artistry and keen perception of those motives which actuate
conduct have never been better exhibited.
“_Old Delabole_,” says Elia W. Peattie in the _Chicago Tribune_, “is
unusual. Its characters stand up boldly like monoliths against a gray
sky. The struggle of life and the philosophy of life, old age as well as
youth, dullness as well as quiet wisdom, play their part in the tale.”
The Extra Day
BY ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
_Dec. cloth, 12mo, $1.35_
The joyousness of life lived in an imaginative world is Mr. Blackwood’s
theme, a theme not unlike Maeterlinck’s _The Bluebird_. His new story is
fine in literary quality and in imaginative conception.
A group of delightful children learn to gain for themselves an “extra
day” which, as a matter of time, does not count, and this day is filled
with wonderful adventures. As in some of his other writings Mr.
Blackwood plays about the idea that little children are so close to the
line that divides the mysteries of the spiritual world from the
actualities that in fancy they pass back and forth across this line.
“A very charming flight of exquisite fancy, fascinating to grownups who
have the slightest spark of youth still flickering within them,” is the
_Duluth Herald’s_ comment on _The Extra Day_. “It fixes more firmly than
ever the title that has been so well bestowed upon Algernon
Blackwood—‘artistic realist of the unseen world.’”
—_Duluth Herald._
Heart’s Kindred
BY ZONA GALE
Author of “Christmas,” “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre,” etc.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.35_
There is much of timely significance in Miss Gale’s new book. For
example, one of the most interesting and powerful of its scenes takes
place at a meeting of the Women’s Peace Congress and in the course of
the action there are introduced bits of the actual speeches delivered at
the most recent session of this congress. But _Heart’s Kindred_ is not
merely a plea for peace; it is rather the story of the making of a
man—and of the rounding out of a woman’s character, too. In the rough,
unpolished, but thoroughly sincere Westerner and the attractive young
woman who brings out the good in the man’s nature, Miss Gale has two as
absorbing people as she has ever created. In _Heart’s Kindred_ is
reflected that humanness and breadth of vision which was first found in
_Friendship Village_ and _The Loves of Pelleas_ and _Etarre_ and made
Miss Gale loved far and wide.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York
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Transcriber’s note:
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
printed.