“One of the most artistic and exquisitely finished pieces of work
that Crawford has produced. The picturesque setting, Calabria and its
surroundings, the beautiful Sorrento and the Gulf of Salerno, with the
bewitching accessories that climate, sea, and sky afford, give Mr.
Crawford rich opportunities to show his rare descriptive powers. As
a whole the book is strong and beautiful through its simplicity, and
ranks among the choicest of the author’s many fine productions.”—_Public
Opinion._
=A Cigarette Maker’s Romance= (Munich) and =Khaled=, a Tale of Arabia
“Two gems of subtle analysis of human passion and motive.”—_Times._
“The interest is unflagging throughout. Never has Mr. Crawford done
more brilliant realistic work than here. But his realism is only the
case and cover for those intense feelings which, placed under no matter
what humble conditions, produce the most dramatic and the most tragic
situations.… This is a secret of genius, to take the most coarse and
common material, the meanest surroundings, the most sordid material
prospects, and out of the vehement passions which sometimes dominate all
human beings to build up with these poor elements, scenes and passages
the dramatic and emotional power of which at once enforce attention and
awaken the profoundest interest.”—_New York Tribune._
=Fair Margaret.= A Portrait
“An exhilarating romance … alluring in its naturalness and
grace.”—_Boston Herald._
WITH SCENES LAID IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA
_In the binding of the Uniform Edition_
=A Tale of a Lonely Parish=
“It is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of its kind as this brief
and vivid story.… It is doubly a success, being full of human sympathy,
as well as thoroughly artistic in its nice balancing of the unusual with
the commonplace, the clever juxtaposition of innocence and guilt, comedy
and tragedy, simplicity and intrigue.”—_Critic._
=Dr. Claudius.= A True Story
The scene changes from Heidelberg to New York, and much of the story
develops during the ocean voyage.
“There is a satisfying quality in Mr. Crawford’s strong, vital, forceful
stories.”—_Boston Herald._
=An American Politician.= The scenes are laid in Boston
“It need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and picturesquely
written, portraying sharply individual characters in well-defined
surroundings.”—_New York Commercial Advertiser._
=The Three Fates=
“Mr. Crawford has manifestly brought his best qualities as a student of
human nature and his finest resources as a master of an original and
picturesque style to bear upon this story. Taken for all in all, it
is one of the most pleasing of all his productions in fiction, and it
affords a view of certain phases of American, or perhaps we should say of
New York, life that have not hitherto been treated with anything like the
same adequacy and felicity.”—_Boston Beacon._
=Marion Darche=
“Full enough of incident to have furnished material for three or four
stories.… A most interesting and engrossing book. Every page unfolds new
possibilities, and the incidents multiply rapidly.”—_Detroit Free Press._
“We are disposed to rank _Marion Darche_ as the best of Mr. Crawford’s
American stories.”—_The Literary World._
=Katharine Lauderdale=
=The Ralstons.= A Sequel to “Katharine Lauderdale”
“Mr. Crawford at his best is a great novelist, and in _Katharine
Lauderdale_ we have him at his best.”—_Boston Daily Advertiser._
“A most admirable novel, excellent in style, flashing with humor, and
full of the ripest and wisest reflections upon men and women.”—_The
Westminster Gazette._
“It is the first time, we think, in American fiction that any
such breadth of view has shown itself in the study of our social
framework.”—_Life._
Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL’S NOVELS
_Each, cloth, gilt tops and titles, $1.50_
=The Celebrity.= An Episode
“No such piece of inimitable comedy in a literary way has appeared for
years.… It is the purest, keenest fun.”—_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
=Richard Carvel= Illustrated
“… In breadth of canvas, massing of dramatic effect, depth of feeling,
and rare wholesomeness of spirit, it has seldom, if ever, been surpassed
by an American romance.”—_Chicago Tribune._
=The Crossing= Illustrated
“_The Crossing_ is a thoroughly interesting book, packed with exciting
adventure and sentimental incident, yet faithful to historical fact both
in detail and in spirit.”—_The Dial._
=The Crisis= Illustrated
“It is a charming love story, and never loses its interest.… The intense
political bitterness, the intense patriotism of both parties, are shown
understandingly.”—_Evening Telegraph_, Philadelphia.
=Coniston= Illustrated
“_Coniston_ has a lighter, gayer spirit, and a deeper, tenderer touch
than Mr. Churchill has ever achieved before.… It is one of the truest
and finest transcripts of modern American life thus far achieved in our
fiction.”—_Chicago Record-Herald._
Mr. JAMES LANE ALLEN’S NOVELS
_Each, cloth, 12mo, $1.50_
=The Choir Invisible=
_This can also be had in a special edition illustrated by Orson Lowell,
$2.50_
“One reads the story for the story’s sake, and then re-reads the book out
of pure delight in its beauty. The story is American to the very core.…
Mr. Allen stands to-day in the front rank of American novelists. _The
Choir Invisible_ will solidify a reputation already established and bring
into clear light his rare gifts as an artist. For this latest story is as
genuine a work of art as has come from an American hand.”—HAMILTON MABIE
in _The Outlook_.
=The Reign of Law.= A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields
“Mr. Allen has a style as original and almost as perfectly finished
as Hawthorne’s, and he has also Hawthorne’s fondness for spiritual
suggestion that makes all his stories rich in the qualities that are
lacking in so many novels of the period.… If read in the right way,
it cannot fail to add to one’s spiritual possessions.”—_San Francisco
Chronicle._
=Summer in Arcady.= A Tale of Nature
“This story by James Lane Allen is one of the gems of the season. It is
artistic in its setting, realistic and true to nature and life in its
descriptions, dramatic, pathetic, tragic, in its incidents; indeed, a
veritable masterpiece that must become classic. It is difficult to give
an outline of the story; it is one of the stories which do not outline;
it must be read.”—_Boston Daily Advertiser._
=The Mettle of the Pasture=
“It may be that _The Mettle of the Pasture_ will live and become a part
of our literature; it certainly will live far beyond the allotted term of
present-day fiction. Our principal concern is that it is a notable novel,
that it ranks high in the range of American and English fiction, and that
it is worth the reading, the re-reading, and the continuous appreciation
of those who care for modern literature at its best.”—By E. F. E. in the
_Boston Transcript_.
_Shorter Stories. Each, $1.50_
=The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky=
=Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales=
_Each, illustrated, $1.00_
=A Kentucky Cardinal=
=Aftermath.= A Sequel to “A Kentucky Cardinal”
Mr. OWEN WISTER’S NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth cover, $1.50_
=The Virginian=
“The vanished West is made to live again by Owen Wister in a manner which
makes his book easily the best that deals with the cowboy and the cattle
country.… It is picturesque, racy, and above all it is original.”—_The
Philadelphia Press._
=Lady Baltimore=
“After cowboy stories innumerable, _The Virginian_ came as the last and
definite word on that romantic subject in our fiction. _Lady Baltimore_
will serve in much the same way as the most subtly drawn picture of the
old-world dignity of the vanished South.”—_The New York Evening Mail._
Mr. EDEN PHILPOTTS’S NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth, $1.50_
=The American Prisoner= Illustrated
“Intensely readable … perfectly admirable in its elemental humor and racy
turns of speech.”—_The Spectator_, London.
=The Secret Woman=
“There cannot be two opinions as to the interest and the power of _The
Secret Woman_. It is not only its author’s masterpiece, but it is far
in advance of anything he has yet written—and that is to give it higher
praise than almost any other comparison with contemporary fiction could
afford.”—_Times Saturday Review._
=Knock at a Venture=
Sketches of the rustic life of Devon, rich in racy, quaint, and humorous
touches.
=The Portreeve=
Mr. ROBERT HERRICK’S NOVELS
_Cloth, extra, gilt tops, each, $1.50_
=The Gospel of Freedom=
“A novel that may truly be called the greatest study of social life, in a
broad and very much up-to-date sense, that has ever been contributed to
American fiction.”—_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
=The Web of Life=
“It is strong in that it faithfully depicts many phases of American life,
and uses them to strengthen a web of fiction, which is most artistically
wrought out.”—_Buffalo Express._
=The Real World=
“The title of the book has a subtle intention. It indicates, and is
true to the verities in doing so, the strange dreamlike quality of
life to the man who has not yet fought his own battles, or come into
conscious possession of his will—only such battles bite into the
consciousness.”—_Chicago Tribune._
=The Common Lot=
“It grips the reader tremendously.… It is the drama of a human soul the
reader watches … the finest study of human motive that has appeared for
many a day.”—_The World To-day._
=The Memoirs of an American Citizen.= Illustrated with about fifty
drawings by F. B. Masters
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many, and he comes nearer to
reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American
spirit than anybody has yet done.”—_New York Times._
“Intensely absorbing as a story, it is also a crisp, vigorous document of
startling significance. More than any other writer to-day he is giving us
_the_ American novel.”—_New York Globe._
Mr. JACK LONDON’S NOVELS, etc.
_Each, in decorated cloth binding, $1.50_
=The Call of the Wild= Illustrated in colors
“A big story in sober English, and with thorough art in the construction;
a wonderfully perfect bit of work; a book that will be heard of long. The
dog’s adventures are as exciting as any man’s exploits could be, and Mr.
London’s workmanship is wholly satisfying.”—_The New York Sun._
=The Sea-Wolf= Illustrated in colors
“Jack London’s _The Sea-Wolf_ is marvellously truthful.… Reading it
through at a sitting, we have found it poignantly interesting; … a superb
piece of craftsmanship.”—_The New York Tribune._
=White Fang= Illustrated in colors
“A thrilling story of adventure … stirring indeed … and it touches
a chord of tenderness that is all too rare in Mr. London’s
work.”—_Record-Herald_, Chicago.
=Before Adam= Illustrated in colors
“The story moves with a wonderful sequence of interesting and wholly
credible events. The marvel of it all is not in the story itself, but
in the audacity of the man who undertook such a task as the writing of
it.… From an artistic standpoint the book is an undoubted success. And it
is no less a success from the standpoint of the reader who seeks to be
entertained.”—_The Plain Dealer_, Cleveland.
_Shorter Stories_
=Children of the Frost=
=Faith of Men=
=Tales of the Fish Patrol=
=The Game=
=Moon Face=
=Love of Life=
Mr. WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS’S NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth cover, $1.50_
=A Friend of Cæsar=
“As a story … there can be no question of its success.… While the
beautiful love of Cornelia and Drusus lies at the sound sweet heart of
the story, to say so is to give a most meagre idea of the large sustained
interest of the whole.… There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant,
that they fix themselves in the memory.”—NANCY HUSTON BANKS in _The
Bookman_.
=“God Wills It.”= A Tale of the First Crusade. Illustrated by Louis Betts
“Not since Sir Walter Scott cast his spell over us with _Ivanhoe_, _Count
Robert of Paris_, and _Quentin Durward_ have we been so completely
captivated by a story as by _‘God Wills It’_. It grips the attention of
the reader in the first chapter and holds it till the last.”—_Christian
Endeavor World._
=Falaise of the Blessed Voice.= A Tale of the Youth of St. Louis, King of
France
“In this tale of the youth of Louis, King of France and afterward saint
in the calendar of the Catholic Church, Mr. Davis has fulfilled the
promises contained in _A Friend of Cæsar_ and _‘God Wills It’_. The novel
is not only interesting and written with skill in the scenes which are
really dramatic, but it is convincing in its character drawing and its
analysis of motives.”—_Evening Post_, New York.
=A Victor of Salamis.= A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and
Themistocles
“An altogether admirable picture of Hellenic life and Hellenic ideals.
It is just such a book as will convey to the average reader what is the
eternal value of Greek Life to the world … carried breathlessly along
by a style which never poses, and yet is always strong and dignified.…
This remarkable book takes its place with the best of historical fiction.
Those who have made their acquaintance with the characters in the days of
their youth will find delight in the remembrance. Those who would fain
learn something of the golden days of Greece could not do better than use
Mr. Davis for guide.”—_The Daily Post_, Liverpool.
“It is seldom that the London critics admit that an American may wear the
mantle of Scott, but they are declaring that this book entitles Mr. Davis
to a place among novelists not far below the author of _The Talisman_.”
MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT’S NOVELS, etc.
(Published originally as by “Barbara,” the Commuter’s wife)
_Each, in decorated cloth binding, $1.50_
=The Garden of a Commuter’s Wife.= Illustrated from photographs
“Reading it is like having the entry into a home of the class that is
the proudest product of our land, a home where love of books and love
of nature go hand in hand with hearty simple love of ‘folks.’… It is a
charming book.”—_The Interior._
=People of the Whirlpool= Illustrated
“The whole book is delicious, with its wise and kindly humor, its just
perspective of the true values of things, its clever pen pictures of
people and customs, and its healthy optimism for the great world in
general.”—_Philadelphia Evening Telegraph._
=The Woman Errant=
“The book is worth reading. It will cause discussion. It is an
interesting, fictional presentation of an important modern question,
treated with fascinating feminine adroitness.”—Miss JEANNETTE GILDER in
_The Chicago Tribune_.
=At the Sign of the Fox=
“Her little pictures of country life are fragrant with a genuine love
of nature, and there is fun as genuine in her notes on rural character.
A travelling pieman is one of her most lovable personages; another is
Tatters, a dog, who is humanly winsome and wise, and will not soon be
forgotten by the reader of this very entertaining book.”—_New York
Tribune._
=The Garden, You and I=
“This volume is simply the best she has yet put forth, and quite too
deliciously torturing to the reviewer, whose only garden is in Spain.…
The delightful humor which persuaded the earlier books, and without which
Barbara would not be Barbara, has lost nothing of its poignancy, and
would make _The Garden, You and I_ pleasant reading even to the man who
doesn’t know a pink from a phlox or a _Daphne cneorum_ from a Cherokee
rose.”—_Congregationalist._
THE MERWIN-WEBSTER NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth covers, $1.50_
=Calumet “K”= Illustrated by Harry C. Edwards
“_Calumet ‘K’_ is a novel that is exciting and absorbing, but not the
least bit sensational. It is the story of a rush.… The book is an
unusually good story; one that shows the inner workings of the labor
union, and portrays men who are the bone and sinew of the earth.”—_The
Toledo Blade._
=The Short Line War=
“A capital story of adventure in the field of railroading.”—_Outlook._
Mr. MARK LEE LUTHER’S NOVELS
_Each, in cloth, decorated covers, $1.50_
=The Henchman=
“It wins admiration on almost every page by the cleverness of its
inventions.”—CHURCHILL WILLIAMS in _The Bookman_.
=The Mastery=
“A story of really notable power remarkable for its strength.”—_Times._
Mr. and Mrs. CASTLE’S NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth binding, $1.50_
=The Pride of Jennico=
“This lively story has a half-historic flavor which adds to its interest
… told with an intensity of style which almost takes away the breath of
the reader.”—_Boston Transcript._
=If Youth But Knew=
“They should be the most delightful of comrades, for their writing is
so apt, so responsive, so joyous, so saturated with the promptings and
the glamour of spring. It is because _If Youth But Knew_ has all these
adorable qualities that it is so fascinating.”—_Cleveland Leader._
Mr. JOHN LUTHER LONG’S NOVELS, etc.
_Each, in decorated cloth covers, $1.50_
=The Way of the Gods=
“There can be no doubt as to the artistic quality of his story. It rings
true with the golden ring of chivalry and of woman’s love, it rings true
for all lovers of romance, wherever they be, … and is told with an art
worthy of the idea.”—_New York Mail._
=Heimweh and Other Stories=
“As in _Madam Butterfly_ his subtle appreciation of love’s tender mystery
creates an exquisite thrill of ‘the heavenly longing—for the love—the
loved ones’ the one thing that through poverty and age can keep the door
open to joy.”—_New York Times._
Miss BEULAH MARIE DIX’S NOVELS, etc.
_Each, in decorated cloth covers, $1.50_
=The Making of Christopher Ferringham=
“In brilliancy, exciting interest, and verisimilitude, _The Making
of Christopher Ferringham_ is one of the best of the semi-historical
novels of the day, and not unworthy of comparison with Maurice Hewlett’s
best.”—_Boston Advertiser._
=The Life, Treason, and Death of James Blount of Breckenhow=
“A novel that may fairly challenge comparison with the very best, telling
the story of treason and a love, of many good fights, a few mistakes, and
a good death at the last.”—_The Boston Transcript._
=The Fair Maid of Greystones=
“The plot of _The Fair Maid of Greystones_ is not unworthy of Weyman
at his best. This is strong praise, but it is deserved. From the
moment Jack Hetherington, the Cavalier volunteer, assumes the identity
of his blackguard cousin, and thus escapes certain death to face the
responsibility for his kinsman’s dark deeds, until the end, which
is sanely happy, the adventure never flags. This is one of the few
historical novels in whose favor an exception may well be made by those
who long since lost interest in the school.”—_New York Mail._
Mr. CHARLES MAJOR’S NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth binding, $1.50_
=Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall.= Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy
“Dorothy is a splendid creation, a superb creature of brains, beauty,
force, capacity, and passion, a riot of energy, love, and red blood. She
is the fairest, fiercest, strongest, tenderest heroine that ever woke up
a jaded novel reader and made him realize that life will be worth living
so long as the writers of fiction create her like.… The story has brains,
‘go,’ virility, gumption, and originality.”—_The Boston Herald._
=A Forest Hearth.= A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties. Illustrated
“This work is a novel full of charm and action, picturing the life and
love of the fascinating indomitably adventurous men and women, boys and
girls, who developed Indiana. It is a vigorous, breezy, outdoor book,
with the especial intimate touch that is possible only when the subject
is one which has long lain close to its author’s heart.”—_Daily News._
=Yolanda, Maid of Burgundy= Illustrated
“Charles Major has done the best work of his life in Yolanda. The volume
is a genuine romance … and after the reviewer has become surfeited with
problem novels, it is like coming out into the sunlight to read the
fresh, sweet story of her love for Max.”—_The World To-day._
Mr. JOHN OXENHAM’S NOVEL
=The Long Road= With frontispiece
_Cloth, decorated cover, $1.50_
“Not since Robert Louis Stevenson has there appeared a writer of English
who can so thoroughly serve his turn with simple Anglo-Saxon phrases …
invested with sympathetic interest, convincing sincerity, and indefinable
charm of romance.”—_North American._
“It is original both in plot and in treatment, and its skilful mingling
of idyllic beauty and tragedy plays curious tricks with one’s emotions …
and leaves an impression of happiness and spiritual uplift. It is a story
that any man or woman will be the better for reading.”—_Record-Herald_,
Chicago.
Mr. MAURICE HEWLETT’S NOVELS
_Each, in decorated cloth covers, $1.50_
=The Forest Lovers=
“The book is a joy to read and to remember, a source of clean and
pure delight to the spiritual sense, a triumph of romance reduced to
the essentials, and interpreted with a mastery of expression that is
well-nigh beyond praise.”—_The Dial._
=The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay=
“Mr. Hewlett has done one of the most notable things in recent literature
a thing to talk about with bated breath, as a bit of master-craftsmanship
touched by the splendid dignity of real creation.”—_The Interior._
=The Queen’s Quair=
“_The Queen’s Quair_ is, from every point of view, a notable contribution
to historical portraiture in its subtlety, its vividness of color,
its consistency, and its fascination.… Above all, it is intensely
interesting.”—_The Outlook._
=The Fool Errant=
“It is full of excellent description, of amusing characters, and of
picaresque adventure brilliantly related … with infinite humor and
vivacity.”—_The New York Herald._
=Little Novels of Italy=
“These singularly romantic stories are so true to their locality that
they read almost like translations.”—_New York Times._
=New Canterbury Tales=
“In the key and style of the author’s _Little Novels of Italy_, it shows
again the brilliant qualities of that remarkable book; … daring but
successful.”—_New York Tribune._