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_*A Selection from the
Catalogue of*_*
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS*
*Complete Catalogues sent
on application*
*DRIFTING WATERS*
*BY RACHEL SWETE MACNAMARA*
Author of
"The Fringe of the Desert," "The Torch of Life," etc.
_12vo. Illustrated. $1.35_
The rebellion of a young girl, budding into womanhood, against the
jealous proprietorship of a mother's love. There has been much in the
married life of this mother to account for her bitterness of soul and to
explain her tyrannous affection that demands, from the daughter whom she
loves, a singleness of devotion to the exclusion of everyone else. The
daughter's fancy is in time caught in the meshes of love, and the
clandestine expression of her attachment, which the circumstances
demand, involves developments of far-reaching interest to the unfolding
of the story. The scene is in part England, in part Egypt--the
haunting, glowing, throbbing Egypt that the author has again made so
real.
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*The Iron Stair*
*A Romance of Dartmoor*
*By "Rita"*
_12vo. $1.35_
In this novel is told how, for the sake of a girl, in pity for her
grief, in blind obedience to her entreaties, Aubrey Derrington, a
possible peer of the realm, the fastidious, bored, dilettante man about
town, whom his friends had known only as such, finds himself not only in
love, but in as tight a corner as ever a man was placed, with the risk
of criminal prosecution as an accessory after the fact. A love story,
full of charm, complexity, and daring, is unfolded in the fresh gorse
and heather-strewn setting of the Devonshire moors and against the dark
background of frowning prison walls. A girl, an innocent convict, a
wolf in sheep's clothing, and the hero of the story are the central
figures.
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*The Keeper of the Door*
*By Ethel M. Dell*
Author of "The Way of an Eagle," "The Rocks of Valpre,"
"The Knave of Diamonds," etc.
_12vo. $1.40 net_
The Keeper of the Door, a physician whose duty it is to guard the portal
through which the world-sick soul seeks escape. He must fight the enemy
Death, even when the latter comes in friendly guise. On an impulse more
generous than wise the heroine puts into practice the other view, that
in an extreme case of hopeless suffering the extra drop in the spoon
that converts a harmless sedative into a death-dealing potion, is the
only fair way. The story revolves around this act, its effect on the
heroine, the physician whom she loves, and one who seeks revenge. It
shows the author's remarkable story-telling genius at its best.
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_*By Cynthia Stockley*_
*POPPY*
*The Story of a South African Girl*
_With Frontispiece. $1.35 net. By mail, $1.50_
_The Bookman, in a long review, concludes by saying:_
"It shows the bravery of self-conquest, the courage of mother love that
fights the world single-handed, stubbornly living down the world's
neglect and scorn, and winning victory through the love and the loss of
a little child. And back of the tenderness and the pathos, never
intruding, yet never forgotten, is the wonderful, luminous atmosphere of
Africa, with its mysterious colors and shadows and scents, and the
ever-present suggestion of flowering bushes, 'redolent with a fragrance,
like the fragrance of a beautiful woman's hair.'"
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*THE CLAW*
*A Story of South Africa*
_With Frontispiece. $1.35 net. By mail, $1.50_
"The writer of these lines cannot recall a novel heroine more sweet and
straight and lovable and big of heart, and true and just of thought, and
merciful, than is fair Deirdre Saurin (bless her!) of _The Claw_.
"_The Claw_ has claims to a cordial appreciation on the part of very
many readers who are fond of stirring, living stories fitly
told."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean_.
"A book whose many merits make it quite distinctly a conspicuous volume
in current fiction."--_The Bookman_.
*New York -- G. P. Putnam's Sons -- London*