The dexterous craftsmanship in the manipulation of an absorbing plot
that characterizes Mr. Oppenheim's work is here applied to the most
romantic theme he has as yet conceived. The strange adventures that
befel the young Princess of the imaginary kingdom of Bartena, and the
significant part the mysterious "Master Mummer" plays in the girl's
life, furnish abundant material for a fresh and fascinating modern
romance.
There are several English novelists of the day whose work may be taken
on trust, if one wishes merely to be entertained. Among these writers
are Anthony Hope, E. W. Hornung, and E. Phillips Oppenheim. Mr.
Oppenheim is the youngest of the three, but in sheer force of
imagination, which keeps the reader's interest on the stretch from the
beginning to the end of a story, he is easily foremost.--_San Francisco
Call._
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS, BOSTON
_At all Booksellers'_
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Transcriber's note:
Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe".
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the
speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up
paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected
unless otherwise noted.
On page 6, "unforgetable" was replaced with "unforgettable".
On page 12, a hyphen was removed after "felt".
On page 40, a double quotation mark was replaced with a single quotation
mark after "Call me thine own!".
On page 96, a period was added after "or with stone".
On page 164, "fusilades" was replaced with "fusillades".
On page 269, "Here she patted" was replaced with "here she patted".