The Rose of Old St. Louis

by Mary Dillon

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  FAMOUS COPYRIGHT BOOKS IN POPULAR PRICED EDITIONS

  Re-issues of the great literary successes of the time. Library size.Printed on excellent paper--most of them with illustrations of markedbeauty--and handsomely bound in cloth. Price, 75 cents a volume,postpaid.

  BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK. By George Barr McCutcheon. With ColorFrontispiece and other illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Beautifulinlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.

  "The most fascinating, engrossing and picturesque of the season'snovels."--_Boston Herald._ "'Beverly' is altogether charming--almostliving flesh and blood."--_Louisville Times._ "Better than'Graustark'."--_Mail and Express._ "A sequel quite as impossible as'Graustark' and quite as entertaining."--_Bookman._ "A charming lovestory well told."--_Boston Transcript._

  HALF A ROGUE. By Harold MacGrath. With illustrations and inlay coverpicture by Harrison Fisher.

  "Here are dexterity of plot, glancing play at witty talk, charactersreally human and humanly real, spirit and gladness, freshness andquick movement. 'Half a Rogue' is as brisk as a horseback ride on aglorious morning. It is as varied as an April day. It is as charmingas two most charming girls can make it. Love and honor and success andall the great things worth fighting for and living for the involved in'Half a Rogue.'"--_Phila. Press._

  THE GIRL FROM TIM'S PLACE. By Charles Clark Munn. With illustrationsby Frank T. Merrill.

  "Figuring in the pages of this story there are several strongcharacters. Typical New England folk and an especially sturdy one, oldCy Walker, through whose instrumentality Chip comes to happiness andfortune. There is a chain of comedy, tragedy, pathos and love, whichmakes a dramatic story."--_Boston Herald._

  THE LION AND THE MOUSE. A story of American Life. By Charles Klein,and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, and Scenesfrom the Play.

  The novel duplicated the success of the play; in fact the book isgreater than the play. A portentous clash of dominant personaltiesthat form the essence of the play are necessarily touched upon butbriefly in the short space of four acts. All this is narrated in thenovel with a wealth of fascinating and absorbing detail, making it oneof the most powerfully written and exciting works of fiction given tothe world in years.

  BARBARA WINSLOW, REBEL. By Elizabeth Ellis.

  With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.

  The following, taken from story, will best describe the heroine: ATOAST: "To the bravest comrade in misfortune, the sweetest companionin peace and at all times the most courageous of women."--_BarbaraWinslow_. "A romantic story, buoyant, eventful, and in matters of loveexactly what the heart could desire."--_New York Sun._

  SUSAN. By Ernest Oldmeadow. With a color frontispiece by FrankHaviland. Medalion in color on front cover.

  Lord Ruddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom hesees in one of her walks accompanied by her maid, Susan. Through amisapprehension of personalities his lordship addresses a love missiveto the maid. Susan accepts in perfect good faith, and an epistolarylove-making goes on till they are disillusioned. It naturally makes adroll and delightful little comedy; and is a story that isparticularly clever in the telling.

  WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE. By Jean Webster. With illustrations by C.D. Williams.

  "The book is a treasure."--_Chicago Daily News._ "Bright, whimsical,and thoroughly entertaining."--_Buffalo Express._ "One of the beststories of life in a girl's college that has ever been written."--_N. Y.Press._ "To any woman who has enjoyed the pleasures of a college lifethis book cannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and tothose who have not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm ofPatty are sure to be no less delightful."--_Public Opinion._

  THE MASQUERADER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations byClarence F. Underwood.

  "You can't drop it till you have turned the last page."--_ClevelandLeader._ "Its very audacity of motive, of execution, of solution,almost takes one's breath away. The boldness of its denouement issublime."--_Boston Transcript._ "The literary hit of a generation. Thebest of it is the story deserves all its success. A masterlystory."--_St. Louis Dispatch._ "The story is ingeniously told, andcleverly constructed."--_The Dial._

  THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston. With illustrations by JohnCampbell.

  "Tells of a high strung young Irish woman who has a passion forgambling, inherited from a long line of sporting ancestors. She has ahigh sense of honor, too, and that causes complications. She is a veryhuman, lovable character, and love saves her."--_N. Y. Times._

  THE AFFAIR AT THE INN. By Kate Douglas Wiggin.

  With illustrations by Martin Justice.

  "As superlatively clever in the writing as it is entertaining in thereading. It is actual comedy of the most artistic sort, and it ishandled with a freshness and originality that is unquestionablynovel."--_Boston Transcript._ "A feast of humor and good cheer, yetsubtly pervaded by special shades of feeling, fancy, tenderness, orwhimsicality. A merry thing in prose."--_St. Louis Democrat._

  ROSE O' THE RIVER. By Kate Douglas Wiggin. With illustrations byGeorge Wright.

  "'Rose o' the River' a charming bit of sentiment, gracefully writtenand deftly touched with a gentle humor. It is a dainty book--daintilyillustrated."--_New York Tribune._ "A wholesome, bright, refreshingstory, an ideal book to give a young girl."--_Chicago Record-Herald._"An idyllic story, replete with pathos and inimitable humor. Asstory-telling it is perfection, and as portrait-painting it is true tothe life."--_London Mail._

  TILLIE: A Mennonite Maid. By Helen R. Martin. With illustrations byFlorence Scovel Shinn.

  The little "Mennonite Maid" who wanders through these pages issomething quite new in fiction. Tillie is hungry for books and beautyand love; and she comes into her inheritance at the end. "Tillie isfaulty, sensitive, big-hearted, eminently human, and first, last andalways lovable. Her charm glows warmly, the story is well handled, thecharacters skilfully developed."--_The Book Buyer._

  LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. With illustrations byHoward Chandler Christy.

  "The most marvellous work of its wonderful author."--_New York World._"We touch regions and attain altitudes which it is not given to theordinary novelist even to approach."--_London Times._ "In no otherstory has Mrs. Ward approached the brilliancy and vivacity of LadyRose's Daughter."--_North American Review._

  THE BANKER AND THE BEAR. By Henry K. Webster.

  "An exciting and absorbing story."--_New York Times._ "Intenselythrilling; in parts, but an unusually good story all through. There isa love affair of real charm and most novel surroundings, there is arun on the bank which is almost worth a year's growth, and there isall manner of exhilarating men and deeds which should bring the bookinto high and permanent favor."--_Chicago Evening Post._

  THE SPIRIT OF THE SERVICE. By Edith Elmer Wood. With illustrations byRufus Zogbaum.

  The standards and life of "the new navy" are breezily set forth with agenuine ring impossible from the most gifted "outsider." "The story ofthe destruction of the 'Maine,' and of the Battle of Manila, are verydramatic. The author is the daughter of one naval officer and the wifeof another. Naval folks will find much to interest them in 'The Spiritof the Service.'"--_The Book Buyer._

  A SPECTRE OF POWER. By Charles Egbert Craddock.

  Miss Murfree has pictured Tennessee mountains and the mountain peoplein striking colors and with dramatic vividness, but goes back to thetime of the struggles of the French and English in the earlyeighteenth century for possession of the Cherokee territory. The storyabounds in adventure, mystery, peril and suspense.

  THE STORM CENTRE. By Charles Egbert Craddock.

  A war story; but more of flirtation, love and courtship than offighting or history. The tale is thoroughly readable and takes itsreaders again into golden Tennessee, into the atmosphere which hasdistinguished all of Miss Murfree's novels.

  THE ADVENTURESS. By Coralie Stanton. With color frontispiece byHarrison Fish
er, and attractive inlay cover in colors.

  As a penalty for her crimes, her evil nature, her flint-likecallousness, her more than inhuman cruelty, her contempt for the lawsof God and man, she was condemned to bury her magnificent personalty,her transcendent beauty, her superhuman charms, in gilded obscurity ata King's left hand. A powerful story powerfully told.

  THE GOLDEN GREYHOUND. A Novel by Dwight Tilton. With illustrations byE. Pollak.

  A thoroughly good story that keeps you guessing to the very end, andnever attempts to instruct or reform you. It is a strictly up-to-datestory of love and mystery with wireless telegraphy and all the modernimprovements. The events nearly all take place on a big Atlantic linerand the romance of the deep is skilfully made to serve as a settingfor the romance, old as mankind, yet always new, involving our hero.

  LAVENDER AND OLD LACE. By Myrtle Reed.

  A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygoneromance finds a modern parallel. One of the prettiest, sweetest, andquaintest of old-fashioned love stories * * * A rare book, exquisitein spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy, of tenderness, ofdelightful humor and spontaneity. A dainty volume, especially suitablefor a gift.

  DOCTOR LUKE OF THE LABRADOR. By Norman Duncan. With a frontispiece andinlay cover.

  How the doctor came to the bleak Labrador coast and there in savinglife made expiation. In dignity, simplicity, humor, in sympatheticetching of a sturdy fisher people, and above all in the echoes of thesea, _Doctor Luke_ is worthy of great praise. Character, humor,poignant pathos, and the sad grotesque conjunctions of old and newcivilizations are expressed through the medium of a style that hasdistinction and strikes a note of rare personality.

  THE DAY'S WORK. By Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated.

  The _London Morning Post_ says: "It would be hard to find betterreading * * * the book is so varied, so full of color and life fromend to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will layit down till they have read the last--and the last is a veritable gem* * * contains some of the best of his highly vivid work * * * Kiplingis a born story-teller and a man of humor into the bargain."

  ELEANOR LEE. By Margaret E. Sangster. With a frontispiece.

  A story of married life, and attractive picture of wedded bliss * * *an entertaining story or a man's redemption through a woman's love* * * no one who knows anything of marriage or parenthood can readthis story with eyes that are always dry * * * goes straight to theheart of everyone who knows the meaning of "love" and "home."

  THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS. By John Reed Scott. Illustrated byClarence F. Underwood.

  "Full of absorbing charm, sustained interest, and a wealth ofthrilling and romantic situations." "So naively fresh in itshandling, so plausible through its naturalness, that it comeslike a mountain breeze across the far-spreading desert of similarromances."--_Gazette-Times, Pittsburg._ "A slap-dashing dayromance."--_New York Sun._

  THE FAIR GOD; OR, THE LAST OF THE TZINS. By Lew Wallace. Withillustrations by Eric Pape.

  "The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and itis worked out with all of Wallace's skill * * * it gives a finepicture of the heroism of the Spanish conquerors and of the cultureand nobility of the Aztecs."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._

  "_Ben Hur_ sold enormously, but _The Fair God_ was the best of theGeneral's stories--a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat ofMontezuma by Cortes."--_Athenaeum._

  THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy.

  A story of love and the salt sea--of a helpless ship whirled into thehands of cannibal Fuegians--of desperate fighting and tender romance,enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who describes withhis wonted felicity and power of holding the reader's attention * * *filled with the swing of adventure.

  A MIDNIGHT GUEST. A Detective Story. By Fred M. White. With afrontispiece.

  The scene of the story centers in London and Italy. The book isskilfully written and makes one of the most baffling, mystifying,exciting detective stories ever written--cleverly keeping the suspenseand mystery intact until the surprising discoveries which precede theend.

  THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI. A Romance. By S. Levett Yeats. With cover andwrapper in four colors.

  Those who enjoyed Stanley Weyman's _A Gentleman of France_ will beengrossed and captivated by this delightful romance of Italianhistory. It is replete with exciting episodes, hair-breath escapes,magnificent sword-play, and deals with the agitating times in Italianhistory when Alexander II was Pope and the famous and infamous Borgiaswere tottering to their fall.

  SISTER CARRIE. By Theodore Drieser. With a frontispiece, and wrapperin color.

  In all fiction there is probably no more graphic and poignant study ofthe way in which man loses his grip on life, lets his pride, hiscourage, his self-respect slip from him, and, finally, even ceases tostruggle in the mire that has engulfed him. * * * There is more tonicvalue in _Sister Carrie_ than in a whole shelfful of sermons.

  DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES. By Irving Bacheller. With illustrationsby Arthur Keller.

  "Darrel, the clock tinker, is a wit, philosopher, and man of mystery.Learned, strong, kindly, dignified, he towers like a giant above thepeople among whom he lives. It is another tale of the North Country,full of the odor of wood and field. Wit, humor, pathos and highthinking are in this book."--_Boston Transcript._

  D'RI AND I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British.Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U. S. A. By Irving Bacheller.With illustrations by F. C. Yohn.

  "Mr. Bacheller is admirable alike in his scenes of peace and war.D'ri, a mighty hunter, has the same dry humor as Uncle Eb. He fightsmagnificently on the 'Lawrence,' and was among the wounded when Perrywent to the 'Niagara.' As a romance of early American history it isgreat for the enthusiasm it creates."--_New York Times._

  EBEN HOLDEN: A Tale of the North Country. By Irving Bacheller.

  "As pure as water and as good as bread," says Mr. Howells. "Read 'EbenHolden'" is the advice of Margaret Sangster. "It is a forest-scented,fresh-aired, bracing and wholly American story of country and townlife. * * * If in the far future our successors wish to know what werethe real life and atmosphere in which the country folk that saved thisnation grew, loved, wrought and had their being, they must go back tosuch true and zestful and poetic tales of 'fiction' as 'Eben Holden,'"says Edmund Clarence Stedman.

  SILAS STRONG: Emperor of the Woods. By Irving Bacheller. With afrontispiece.

  "A modern _Leatherstocking_. Brings the city dweller the aroma of thepine and the music of the wind in its branches--an epic poem * * *forest-scented, fresh-aired, and wholly American. A stronger characterthan Eben Holden."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

  VERGILIUS: A Tale of the Coming of Christ. By Irving Bacheller.

  A thrilling and beautiful story of two young Roman patricians whosegreat and perilous love in the reign of Augustus leads them throughthe momentous, exciting events that marked the year just preceding thebirth of Christ.

  Splendid character studies of the Emperor Augustus, of Herod and hisdegenerate son, Antipater, and of his daughter "the incomparable"Salome. A great triumph in the art of historical portrait painting.

  GROSSET & DUNLAP, NEW YORK