Throckmorton: A Novel
Page 23
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.
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 companion inpeace 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 Frank Haviland. Medallion in color on front cover.
Lord Ruddington falls helplessly in love with Miss Langley, whom he seesin 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 is particularlyclever 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, andthoroughly entertaining."--_Buffalo Express._ "One of the best storiesof 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 life this bookcannot fail to bring back many sweet recollections; and to those whohave not been to college the wit, lightness, and charm of Patty are sureto be no less delightful."--_Public Opinion._
THE MASQUERADER, By Katherine Cecil Thurston With illustrations by Clarence 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.The best 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 John Campbell.
"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._
GROSSET & DUNLAP, .. NEW YORK
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.
THE SHUTTLE, By Frances Hodgson Burnett With inlay cover in colors by Clarence F. Underwood.
This great international romance relates the story of an American girlwho, in rescuing her sister from the ruins of her marriage to anEnglishman of title, displays splendid qualities of courage, tact andrestraint. As a study of American womanhood of modern times, thecharacter of Bettina Vanderpoel stands alone in literature. As a lovestory, the account of her experience is magnificent. The masterlyhandling, the glowing style of the book, give it a literary rank towhich very few modern novels have attained.
THE MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS, By Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated with half tone engravings by Charles D. Williams. With initial letters, tail-pieces, decorative borders. Beautifully printed, and daintily bound, and boxed.
A delightful novel in the author's most charming vein. The scene is laidin an English country house, where an amiable English nobleman is thecentre of matrimonial interest on the part of both the English andAmericans present.
Graceful, sprightly, almost delicious in its dialogue and action. It isa book about which one is tempted to write ecstatically.
THE METHODS OF LADY WALDERHURST, By Francis Hodgson Burnett A Companion Volume to "The Making of a Marchioness." With illustrations by Charles D. Williams, and with initial letters, tail-pieces, and borders, by A. K. Womrath. Beautifully printed and daintily bound, and boxed.
"The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" is a delightful story which combinesthe sweetness of "The Making of a Marchioness," with the dramaticqualities of "A Lady of Quality." Lady Walderhurst is one of the mostcharming characters in modern fiction.
VAYENNE, By Percy Brebner With illustrations by E. Fuhr.
This romance like the author's _The Princess Maritza_ is charged to thebrim with adventure. Sword play, bloodshed, justice grown the multitude,sacrifice, and romance, mingle in dramatic episodes that are born,flourish, and pass away on every page.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, .. NEW YORK
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.
DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES, By Irving Bacheller With illustrations by 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 high thinkingare 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 town life.*** If in the far future our successors wish to know what were the reallife and atmosphere in which the country folk that saved this nationgrew, loved, wrought and had their being, they must go back to such trueand zestful and poetic tales of 'fiction' as 'Eben Holden,'" says EdmundClarence Stedman.
SILAS STRONG: Emperor of the Woods, By Irving Bacheller With a frontispiece.
"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 through themomentous, exciting events that marked the year just preceding the birthof 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
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors; otherwise,every effort has been made to remain true to the author's words andintent.
is-inline-share-buttons">share